Healthy Eating Active Living

WHAT’S NEW

• Cook for Health: Junior Chef
  – See Cooking Videos
  – Web-based cooking classes —sign up through HEAL program or by calling 408-851-3800
• Monthly online activity/topics class calendar

OUR VIDEOS

Program Videos

• HEAL Program Overview
• HEAL Program follow up options
• HEAL Program cooking partnership with Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose

Cooking Videos

• Healthy and Quick Family Breakfast Ideas: Overnight Oats
• HEAL Cooking Class: Breakfast
• HEAL Cooking Class: Lunch
• HEAL Cooking Class: Dinner

Nutrition Videos

• Picking a Tortilla
• Making a Lunch Box
• Picking a Yogurt

HEAL PROGRAM

Address
Pediatrics Department 190

Hours
By appointment only
Tuesday afternoons and once monthly on Thursday afternoon
New patients (average duration of appointment: 1.5 hours)
Returning patients (average duration of appointment: 1 hour)

Goal
To help children and teens aged 6 -17 years old and their families make healthy lifestyle choices to ensure a healthy weight and habits for their lifetime.

Expectation
A commitment from the child, plus parents and caregivers involved in the child’s environment, to try to adopt healthier lifestyle choices and habits.

Services
We offer a variety of services depending on what you and your family need most. There are 3 choices and you are welcome to enroll for one, two, or all three types of visits.

1. An individualized visit with each of our multi-disciplinary team members who will help build, guide and support a healthy lifestyle through discussing specific changes you and your family can make in different aspects of your health.
2. Group monthly activity class: every 4^th Tuesday we offer a class with 20-25 min of physical activity, parent support group (during activity time), then a 30 min class on topic noted on calendar. These are fun, interactive, and help your child or teen learn in a group setting.
3. Healthy Cooking class: every 2^nd Tuesday we offer a fun, hands on cooking class for kids and teens (parents need to attend), located at the San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum. Advance registration required.

RESOURCES

Action Plan and Goals

• Take action… goal setting
• Action plan for parents
• Goal form for children
• 10 healthy habits

Nutrition Resources

• Mindful eating
• Parenting for success
• Food log
• Hunger scale
• Healthy plant based diet
• Healthy plate (Chinese) (Spanish)
• Healthy breakfast
• Healthy thirst quenchers
• Healthy kids’ recipes
• KP Food for health blog
• Recipes HEAL cooking class and Children’s Discovery Museum
• Dr. Yum recipes
• Eat Right website for healthy recipes and more
• Snack challenge
• Video: How to shop for healthy foods

Physical Activity

• Ways to be active throughout the day
• Rate of perceived exertion: How hard am I working?

Get Moving

Fitness Apps

• Sworkit Kids: 5 – 30-minute exercise routines for children 7-14 years old
• Go Noodle: dance, yoga, and mindfulness for children 5-12 years old
• Iron Kids (from American Academy of Pediatrics): 45-minute workouts for 8 years and older (cost: $3.99)
• Just Dance Now: dance party exercise for 10 years and older
• Zombies, Run!: running game for 12 years and older
• NFL Play 60 (from American Heart Association): for 4 years and older
• FitQuest Lite: exercise adventure powered by movement (e.g., jogging, hopping, dancing), moving unlocks more puzzles in the game

Dance Videos (For younger kids, 4-9 years)

• Debbie Doo & Friends! – Let’s Star Jump!
• Debbie Doo & Friends! – The Freeze

Active Games (For younger kids, 4-9 years)

• Party Freeze Game
• Animal Action
• Movement Fun

Be Mindful

• Belly Breathing Song (for young children)
• Mindfulness Video (for young children)
• KP Audio Meditations for Health (for older teens and adults)
• How to Talk to Your Child About Coronavirus and COVID-19 (for parents)

Healthy Sleep

• Teens (12-18 years)
• School-Age Children

Other Resources

• Tips for parents to help kids reduce screen time
• Healthy Eating Active Living – Tips for families (Spanish)

OUR TEAM