Healthy Eating Active Living

WHAT’S NEW

• Cooking class sign up (temporarily closed)
  See Cooking Videos instead
• Monthly 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 4 Ways
• HEAL Cooking Class: Breakfast
• HEAL Cooking Class: Lunch

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
• Snack challenge
• Portion size & goal (coming soon!)

Physical Activity

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

Other Resources

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

OUR TEAM