The sources, whether websites or articles that intend to provide a healthier eating choice, are anywhere nowadays. These sources, no matter right or wrong, are convincingly and truly increasing the awareness of people’s eating habits. Even though people want to eat healthily, they barely know how. The site Eat Healthy, which derived from healthfinder.gov, is really an excellent nutrition education material that guides the public to achieve healthy eating step by step.
Eat Healthy is just a single page but really provides a simple passage that may guide people to a healthier diet. Reading through the entire page, you will be surprised about how comprehensive it is that the article consults the possible circumstances which could influence people’s food choices through every aspect. What’s more, the thoughtful structure of the page also attracts my attention- it encourages the browsers to take action right away by directly giving the links of any useful materials such as a framework of food diary, a chart that can use for shopping healthy food, or other easy-download PDFs that give basic knowledge of the nutrition. The increased accessibility of the tools that help people change their eating habits is actually a quite smart idea that can be put into the nutrition education. As clicking the link below each tips and print out a food diary or a shopping list is such as effortless task, people are more likely to do so and may give a try to use these as a tools to make small change to their eating habits. This is an effective way that I can use as a nutrition educator because the public or the target audience prefer knowledge and tools that are easy-accessed, and strategies that are simple to manipulate.
What’s more, the article guides the audience to become more and more engaged by first introducing some basics and then recommending the specific approaches to a healthy eating habit. The “Take Action” part is well-organized. It follows the order of how to self-managing the eating pattern, how to smart shopping by reading the nutrition facts label, how to eat in or out home, and finally how to prepare a special meal for diabetes patients. This can also be applied to any presentations or other nutrition education activities for me as a nutrition educator that talking from the most shallow things to gradually deeper knowledge or the derivative information.