Healthy Eating Active Living

WHAT’S NEW

• Cooking class sign up
• Monthly activity/topics class calendar

OUR VIDEOS

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

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