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As more health information is delivered digitally, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has greatly enhanced its digital content offerings, including educational videos, digital tools, and downloadable publications. Currently, all NHLBI health information materials, from systematic evidence reviews to fact sheets, are available for download through our Online Catalog.

In addition, limited quantities of print materials are available free of charge from the NHLBI Center for Health Information (CHI), which is the new name for the NHLBI Health Information Center. Our enhanced Online Catalog is currently under development.

Materials can still be downloaded but to order print publications, you can reach the NHLBI CHI between 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday (excluding Federal holidays), by telephone at 301-592-8573, or email. The National Institutes of Health 2011 NIH Sleep Disorders Research Plan identifies research opportunities to be pursued over the next three to five years in order to spur new approaches to the prevention and treatment of sleep disorders.

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Recommended research initiatives include looking at the connection between sleep and circadian systems (the body's natural 24-hour cycle), studying the influence of genetic and environmental factors that could influence a person's sleep health, and conducting more comparative effectiveness trials to improve treatments for sleep and circadian disorders. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 11/2011. The new Clinical Practice Guidelines provide the complete and authoritative presentation on the causes, diagnosis and treatment of the common, inherited bleeding disorder known as von Willebrand Disease. This is the first-ever evidence-based presentation by NHLBI on this topic, and the first ever prepared in the United States. This handy pocket guide, derived from the Full Report, is ideal for health professionals to use as an on-the-go reference.

Deals with initial screening, diagnosis, and management for patients with the disorder; along with directions for future research and recommendations for training for health professionals. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 02/2008. When dining out, do you wonder what foods on the menu are heart healthy, or how much to eat of a typical restaurant-sized portion? This pocket guide is a convenient, compact reference to help you make healthy decisions when you're at restaurants, cafeterias, supermarket deli counters, or any time you're eating outside your home. Provides information on how meals and snacks fit within your overall diet, offers tips to help identify heart healthy dishes in various types of restaurants, and highlights healthier menu options with less fat and calories. Order your pocket guide now, and take the guess work out of eating healthy on the go.

Availability: Online only Publication Date: 08/2014. Newly revised in 2012! This easy-to-read booklet is perfect for teachers, coaches, and families who want to help students with asthma take part in sports and physical activities. Discusses how to help students control their asthma and follow an asthma action plan. Also explains how to manage asthma triggers, ensure students have access to their asthma medicines, recognize worsening asthma symptoms and take action, and modify activities based on a child's asthma status. Includes sample asthma action plans and information about using a peak flow meter, metered-dose inhaler, and dry powder inhaler.

Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 04/2012. The purpose of the Asthma Care Quick Reference Guide is to improve the quality of care and outcomes for people who have asthma by providing health care providers with the tools and information they need to carry out each of the key steps in appropriately diagnosing, treating, and providing long-term follow-up to people with asthma. The Guide puts at clinicians' fingertips the most salient information they need to diagnosis, treat, and monitor their patients' asthma and provide state-of-the-art care. Its streamlined easy use format provides condensed charts and bulleted lists that present a detailed yet readable summary of the current clinical recommendations from the Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, along with practical tips for educating patients. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 09/2012.

These easy-to-read guides are perfect for patients, caregivers, educators, and health care professionals. Step-by-step tip sheets provide instructions for proper use and cleaning of common asthma devices, including dry powder inhalers, metered-dose inhalers with spacers, nebulizers, and peak flow meters. Additionally, an informative guide to asthma triggers describes ways to reduce exposure to triggers, including indoor and outdoor allergens and irritants.

These resources are printable and patient-friendly, which makes them an essential addition to any asthma resource library. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 03/2013.

Note: On November 12, 2013, new clinical practice guidelines on this topic were published online by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). The Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) of the National Cholesterol Education Program issued an evidence-based set of guidelines on cholesterol management in 2001 (Executive Summary published in JAMA, 2001;285:2486-2497). Since the publication of ATP III, 5 major clinical trials of statin therapy with clinical end points have been published. These trials addressed issues that were not examined in previous clinical trials of cholesterol-lowering therapy. The present document reviews the results of these recent trials and assesses their implications for cholesterol management. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 07/2004.

This report presents focus group findings from interviews conducted in the Cambodian community of Lowell, Massachusetts. The NHLBI worked in partnership with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum and Lowell Community Health Center to learn about the state of cardiovascular health knowledge and health behaviors of Cambodians. Other information presented in this report include strategies for developing culturally appropriate heart disease prevention programs as well as community health assessment tools. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 08/2003. This report presents focus group findings from interviews conducted in the Filipino communities of Daly City and San Francisco, California. The NHLBI worked in partnership with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum and West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center to learn about the state of cardiovascular health knowledge and health behaviors of Filipinos.

Other information presented in this report include strategies for developing culturally appropriate heart disease prevention programs as well as language-appropriate community health assessment tools. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 03/2003. This report presents focus group findings from interviews conducted in the Vietnamese community of Houston, Texas. The NHLBI worked in partnership with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum and the Research and Development Institute to learn about the state of cardiovascular health knowledge and health behaviors of the Vietnamese. Other information presented in this report include strategies for developing culturally appropriate heart disease prevention programs as well as community health assessment tools. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 03/2003. Family physicians have an important role to play in the diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the fourth leading cause of death in the United States today.

This laminated, handy and durable bookmark sized reference tool provides primary care physicians with clear information on risk factors, symptoms, how to differentiate between COPD and asthma, and more. Early detection and effective treatment depend on accurate diagnosis. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 09/2013. This Quick Guide provides an overview of sickle cell disease treatment recommendations from the full Evidence-Based Management of Sickle Cell Disease Expert Panel Report, 2014 (56-364NFULL). The purpose of the report and Quick Guide is to help people living with sickle cell disease receive appropriate care by providing the best science-based recommendations to primary care clinicians and other medical professionals. Please make note online file may slightly differ from current hard copy material. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 10/2014.

The Expert Panel Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents contain recommendations based on a systematic evidence review and are directed towards all primary pediatric care providers - pediatricians, family practitioners, nurses and nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered dietitians. By addressing the major population-based risk factors for CVD in a single evidence-based set of Guidelines, the aim is to support pediatric care providers in optimizing CV health in infancy, early childhood, and adolescence with a goal to deliver them to adulthood free of CVD risk factors. The Full Report contains complete background information on the state of the science, methodology of the evidence review and the guideline development process, summaries of the evidence reviews by risk factor, discussion of the Expert Panel's rationale for recommendations, and more than 1,000 citations from the published literature. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 10/2012. The Expert Panel Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents contain recommendations based on a systematic evidence review and are directed towards all primary pediatric care providers – pediatricians, family practitioners, nurses and nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered dietitians.

By addressing the major population-based risk factors for CVD in a single evidence-based set of Guidelines, the aim is to support pediatric care providers in optimizing CV health in infancy, early childhood, and adolescence with a goal to deliver them to adulthood free of CVD risk factors. The Summary Report presents the Expert Panel recommendations for patient care relative to CV health and risk factor detection and management. It begins with a state-of-the-science synopsis of the evidence that atherosclerosis begins in childhood and that the extent of atherosclerosis is linked directly to the presence and intensity of known risk factors.

This is followed by the 'Cardiovascular Health Schedule' which summarizes the Expert Panel's age-based recommendations by risk factor in a one-page periodic table. Risk factor specific sections follow, with the graded conclusions of the evidence review, normative tables and age-specific recommendations. These are often accompanied by Supportive Actions which represent expert consensus suggestions from the panel provided to support implementation of the recommendations. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 10/2012. This booklet is part of a series called 'Healthy Hearts, Healthy Family', that presents important information about a specific risk factor for heart disease in a user-friendly and clear manner for Filipinos. This booklet deals with heart disease.

Explains how the heart works, the nature of heart disease, and what risk factors may impact whether you develop heart disease. Provides ideas on how your family can develop a plan to maintain heart health for all members. In English and Tagalog. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 07/2008.

This booklet is part of a series called 'Healthy Heart, Healthy Family', that presents important information about a specific risk factor for heart disease in a user-friendly and clear manner for Filipinos. This booklet deals with cholesterol. Explains the difference between good and bad cholesterol, what constitutes a high level of cholesterol and the risk that carries, and how your family can develop a plan to lower cholesterol. In English and Tagalog. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 01/2008. This booklet is part of a series called 'Healthy Hearts, Healthy Family', that presents important information about a specific risk factor for heart disease in a user-friendly and clear manner for Filipinos.

This booklet deals with high blood pressure. Explains how this risk factor impacts your chances of developing heart disease.

Provides ideas on how your family can develop a plan to maintain heart health for all members. In English and Tagalog. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 01/2008. This booklet is part of a series called 'Healthy Heart, Healthy Family', that presents important information about a specific risk factor for heart disease in a user-friendly and clear manner for Filipinos. This booklet deals with overweight and obesity.

Explains how to know if you need to lose weight for your health, and steps to help you lose weight. Provides ideas on how your family work together to achieve healthy weights. In English and Tagalog.

Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 01/2008. This booklet is part of a series called 'Healthy Heart, Healthy Family', that presents important information about a specific risk factor for heart disease in a user-friendly and clear manner for Filipinos. This booklet deals with diabetes. Explains the dangers of Type 2 diabetes, and what risk factors you need to monitor to prevent and treat this disease. Provides ideas on how your family can develop a plan to prevent or control diabetes. In English and Tagalog. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 01/2008.

This 12-session program helps families in the Filipino community acquire life skills that foster heart health. This excellent illustrated teaching tool acompanies the manual for community health workers. It includes colorfully illustrated picture cards and stand with scripts in English and Tagalog to reinforce the key messages. Designed to be used with the community health worker manual (08-6339); but can also be used alone for talks on heart health. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 07/2008. This report presents results of prevalence data on a variety of health topics based on the first examination of participants in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos conducted from 2008 - 2011.

The NHLBI sponsored study, with support from 6 other NIH Institutes, was conducted among Hispanic/Latino groups from the Bronx, NY; Chicago, IL; Miami FL; and San Diego CA. The report, presented in both English and Spanish, describes health conditions and health status by age and sex and by background group. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 09/2013. A comprehensive culturally appropriate, user-friendly 10 lesson course on heart-health education for the Native Alaskan community. Filled with skill-building activities, reproducible handouts, and idea starters. Two appendices cover activities for training Heart Health Educators to implement the program, and A Native Alaskan Family's Journey to heart health, told with heart healthy recipes for each family member's favorite foods. Cover, spine, and 3-hole punched text is ready to assemble in a 1-inch binder.

Availability: Online only Publication Date: 03/2006. A comprehensive culturally appropriate, user-friendly 10 lesson course on heart-health education for the American Indian community.

Filled with skill-building activities, reproducible handouts, and idea starters. Two appendices cover activities for training Heart Health Educators to implement the program, and An American Indian Family's Journey to heart health, told with heart healthy recipes for each family member's favorite foods. Cover, spine, and 3-hole punched text is ready to assemble in a 1-inch binder. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 03/2006. Updated in 2013! This two-page resource for parents and school staff will help you determine how well your school serves students who have asthma.

The questionnaire helps identify actions your school is taking to support students who have asthma, along with sources of problems in the school that can make asthma management more difficult. An extensive resource list offers guidance in making school policies and practices more asthma-friendly.

Available in English and Spanish. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 03/2013. Know you should be more physically active, but are confused concerned, or just cannot get started? This In Brief version of the full booklet 'Your Guide to Physical Activity and Your Heart,' uses science-based information to help adults develop a safe and effective program of physical activity that can be sustained. Find out about the importance of physical activity in reducing heart disease risk, and how to begin or maintain an activity program that is right for you! Availability: Online only Publication Date: 01/2008.

This Keep the Beat cookbook contains 40 recipes developed just for the NHLBI, with full-color design throughout and original food photographs. The focus is on family-friendly meals and snacks and getting children involved in meal preparation with their caregivers. Dishes such as Baked Eggrolls, Mexican Lasagna, Oatmeal Pecan Waffles, and Wow-y Maui Pasta Salad are sure to please most family members.

The cookbook also includes information on cooking, nutrition, and feeding children (including picky eaters). Availability: Online only Publication Date: 12/2010. A brand new version of the popular Keep the Beat classic cookbook has a new look-with 75 new deliciously healthy recipes, beautiful full-color design throughout, and original food photographs. The focus is on heart healthy dinner entrees and side dishes, influenced by Asian, Latino, Mediterranean, and American cuisines. With dishes such as Thai-Style Chicken Curry, Greek-Style Flank Steak With Tangy Yogurt Sauce, Edamame Stew, and Cinnamon-Glazed Baby Carrots, the new cookbook is sure to please a variety of people. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 06/2010. Ideally a school nurse is available for emergency care at all times and would use a nursing protocol.

This Suggested Emergency Nursing Protocol can be used by state or district school health services directors or coordinators along with local asthma care providers and emergency care providers as a framework for the development of a local standard protocol that is written for appropriately trained staff who will be responsible for implementing the protocol in local schools. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 01/2011. A Guide for Schools revised in 2014! This guide provides school personnel with guidance on practical ways to implement effective asthma management in school settings. Recognizing that all school staff have a role to play in supporting students who have asthma, the guide includes recommendations for principals/administrators, school nurses, health aides, teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, facilities/maintenance staff, and more. It also offers suggestions and tools for partnering with parents, health care providers, and others in the community to improve asthma management in the school. The guide is packed with reproducible educational materials, along with resources for finding more information about asthma and asthma management.

Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 10/2017. A 2-page summary of the National Asthma Control Initiative's program. The NACI is a multi-component, mobilizing, and action-oriented initiative to engage diverse stakeholders who are concerned about or involved in improving asthma control.

Its ultimate aim is to align the asthma care that patients receive with evidence-based recommendations from two reports published by the NAEPP: the Expert Panel Report 3 (EPR-3) and its companion Guidelines Implementation Panel (GIP). The NACI is bringing together organizations from local, State, regional, and national levels so that they can share best practices, pool and direct resources, and identify new directions and learning opportunities.

Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 04/2010. A culturally appropriate educational booklet for African Americans on heart healthy living. In an easy-to-read format, the booklet provides concise information on heart disease and its risk factors. It explains heart attack signs and how to respond to them, as well as how to reduce risk factors for heart disease, prevent and control high blood pressure, lower blood cholesterol, prevent and control diabetes, manage weight, and stop smoking.

Includes an action plan and tip sheet. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 04/2008. This DVD for PACE program leaders covers communication and patient education techniques for physicians to foster good asthma control skills in pediatric patients and their families.

It is formatted for ease of use during PACE seminars and complements other elements of the PACE program for physicians. Contains four sets of vignettes demonstrating physician-patient interactions in an office practice responding to different asthma learning needs. The DVD does not contain the leader training videos, Power Point slides, speaker’s notes, and participant handouts that are only available on the PACE Web site (These cover other aspects of the PACE program, including classification, monitoring, and stepwise treatment plans for asthma and case presentations. Availability: Hardcopy only Publication Date: 01/2007. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), DHHS, hosted the Education Strategy Development Workshop: Public Health in Public Housing - Improving Health, Changing Lives on May 5 and 6, 2004. The purpose of the Workshop was to have both public health and public housing professionals share intervention strategies they have found to be successful in engaging public housing residents in community-based activities for health and community development.

The Workshop focused on ways to control asthma and improve the cardiovascular health of residents in public housing settings. The outcome of the workshop was the development of four innovative public health in public housing frameworks to inform future public health CVD and asthma programming efforts in public housing settings. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 08/2005. New Hypertension Guidelines Quick Reference Card Will Stand Up to Thousands of Glances Tack it on the records station bulletin board. Snap it on a clipboard.

We've designed this card for the rush and punishment of the active clinic. The laminated card includes at-a-glance versions of essential JNC 7 evaluation changes, new treatment algorithm, and compelling indications for individual drug classes. Get this card for those who don't have time to stop to consult the Evidence Report during treatment hours. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 05/2003.

Your one-stop source for the latest information on controlling your asthma, this guide offers practical suggestions to help you manage this chronic disease. In an easy-to-read format, it offers asthma basics, lists of asthma triggers and how to avoid them, how asthma medicines work and how to take them, tools to help keep asthma under control, and how to communicate with your health care providers to make asthma management part of your everyday life.

The guide also includes an asthma action plan to fill in, an asthma assessment checklist, and a list of additional resources. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 03/2013. Stay in circulation! This colorful 6-page trifold fact sheet provides easy to read information on peripheral arterial disease (P.A.D.), a condition that affects one out of every 20 Americans over the age of 50. Raises your risk for stroke and heart attack. Find out who is at risk for P.A.D., how it is diagnosed and treated. Learn about steps you can take to reduce your risk of P.A.D.

Provides you with questions to ask your physician to help assess your risk for P.A.D. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 08/2006. Stay in circulation! This colorful 6 page trifold fact sheet provides easy to read information on Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), as it relates to African Americans.

PAD is a condition that affects one out of every 20 Americans over the age of 50. PAD raises your risk for stroke and heart attack. Find out who is at risk for PAD, how it is diagnosed and treated.

Learn about steps you can take to reduce your risk of PAD. Provides you with questions to ask your physician to help assess your risk for PAD. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 08/2006. The Full Report provides the complete and authoritative presentation on the causes, diagnosis and treatment of the common, inherited bleeding disorder known as von Willebrand Disease. This is the first-ever evidence-based presentation by NHLBI on this topic, and the first ever prepared in the United States. Deals with initial screening, diagnosis, and management for patients with the disorder; along with directions for future research and recommendations for training for health professionals.

Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 12/2007. This new research provides a comprehensive review for clinicians on the latest scientific evidence regarding high blood pressure in children, along with recommendations for diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of hypertension based on available evidence and consensus expert opinion of the working group when evidence was lacking. The report was also initially published in Pediatrics, 2004;114:555-576. Also available in Palm OS format. See also: Working Group Members Financial Disclosure of working group member Availability: Online only Publication Date: 05/2005. This speakers kit is an important tool offered by The Heart Truth Campaign to promote awareness of heart disease among women. The kit contains everything needed to conduct a 1-hour session on women and heart disease.

Includes a speaker's guide with accompanying DVD, wallet cards, and poster to promote your session. By offering this session at your place of worship, a health fair, club meeting, workplace, or local hospital, you can make a difference in women's lives in your community. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 11/2010. Now available on DVD! This 10-minute motivational video focuses on the problem of cardiovascular disease in Native American and Alaska Native people and how they can deal with the major risk factors for it.

It is filmed with people from the tribal communities of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, the Ponca in Oklahoma, and the Bristol Bay area in Alaska, but it is appropriate for use with all tribes. It is an effective educational tool for all health promotion and disease prevention activities, including school health classes, hospital and clinic waiting rooms, patient and group classes, and community health fairs. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 10/2012. Updated and expanded. The recently published (2002) fourth edition of this clinical guide for health care professionals, developed by leading pediatricians, nurses, hematologists, and internists, summarizes collective experiences with various therapeutic regimens. Includes a new section on Diagnosis and Counseling, with information on Neonatal Screening, Genetic Counseling, Web listings, and other useful resources.

Reflects the most recent advances and modifications in the clinical management of sickle cell disease as well as findings from the Preoperative Transfusion Study, Prophylactic Penicillin Trial II, Multi-center Hydroxyurea Study, and epidemiological data from the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 06/2002. The primary goal of The Heart Truth campaign is to raise awareness of heart disease in women. In 2002, The Heart Truth launched the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness. The Red Dress Pin supports the message, 'Heart Disease Doesn't Care What You Wear.' Features a delicate heart accent on red enamel.

Measures 1 inch tall. The Red Dress Pin is now available at WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, a partner of The Heart Truth. For more information about The Heart Truth® Campaign, visit. Availability: Hardcopy only Publication Date: 01/2003. Overweight and obesity affect all segments of the population at alarming rates.

This document summarizes the findings of a 2-day think tank conducted by NHLBI in March 2003. This session brought together leading experts on the issue from the academic, consumer and professional communities. This Executive Summary highlights key conclusions of the Think Tank on the magnitude of the problem, and the relationship of obesity to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.

Availability: Online only Publication Date: 01/2004. On November 12, 2013, new clinical practice guidelines on this topic were published online by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). () Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III, or ATP III) presents the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) updated recommendations on cholesterol testing and management. The ATP III document is an evidence-based report that provides the scientific rationale for the recommendations contained in the Executive Summary. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 09/2002. Help your patient achieve a safe, effective weight.

Here's a useful tool to help start and sustain an effective weight management program. Based on the latest scientific evidence on the treatment of overweight patients, this 30 sheet tablet can support treatment programs by giving health care professionals an effective patient education piece to take home and use. Boccherini Flute Concerto In D Major Pdf File. Each sheet contains general tips and an interactive form to create a personalized weight and health profile for the patient. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 11/2002. (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a national movement designed to give parents, caregivers, and entire communities a way to help children 8 to 13 years old stay at a healthy weight.

Research shows that parents and caregivers are the primary influence on this age group. National education program provides parents and caregivers with tools, fun activities, and more to help them encourage healthy eating, increased physical activity, and reduced time sitting in front of the screen (TV or computer) in their entire family. Availability: Hardcopy only Publication Date: 01/2005. Energize Our Families: Curriculum for Parents and Caregivers, is a six-lesson curriculum with dynamic activities for parents to encourage a healthy weight in their family.

The core concept explored is 'energy balance,' or the long-term balance between ENERGY IN (calories from food) and ENERGY OUT (calories burned through activity). In a fun and hands-on way, the lessons focus on helping participants learn essential skills that can help their families increase access and availability of healthy foods and make healthful food choices, become more physically active, and reduce recreational screen time. At the end of each lesson, participants are encouraged to try new nutrition and physical activity tips with their families over the next week.

Participants later share their experiences trying the new behavior with the group. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 05/2005. The EatPlayGrow curriculum combines the latest science and research from the NIH with CMOM's creative educational approach to teach kids and their parents how to make healthy nutrition and physical activity choices that are fun and easy to include in daily routines. The new program was adapted from the We Can! Energize Our Families Parent Program curriculum, which was originally geared to children ages 8-13.

EatPlayGrow's interactive and engaging lessons incorporate art-making, storytelling, music and movement activities into fun, hands-on educational lessons about the importance of making positive choices in areas that most affect health: nutrition, physical activity, and sleep. Sections of the curriculum designed for parent distribution are also included in Spanish. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 04/2013. This toolkit gives community planners a one-stop shop of planning tools, reproducible materials, and dynamic activities to help parents encourage a healthy weight in their families. The toolkit offers a six-course curriculum for parents focused on finding energy balance, increasing access and availability of healthy foods-, increasing physical activity, and reducing screen time. Community groups, health departments, and parks and recreation agencies can conduct local outreach and programming for parents, youth, and the community with the helpful tipsheets and assessment tools for working with local media and partners, and conducting community events to support the We Can! The kit can be downloaded in smaller component files if desired: Chapters 1 - 5 Appendix A, Part 1 Appendix A, Part 2 Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D.

Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 06/2005. This workbook contains all of the handouts and activity sheets that are used during the four sessions of the We Can! Parent program. The handouts are designed to reinforce the parent program core concept of energy balance, or the long-term balance between energy in (calories from food) and energy out (calories burned through activity). The handouts also can be used at home to help parents and caregivers with planning meals, creating healthy grocery lists, saving money while eating healthily, and tracking their family's physical activity and screen time. Community planners may wish to order copies to provide to program participants. All of the handouts included in this family guide are available in the appendix of the We Can!

Energize Our Families: Parent Program: A Leader's Guide curriculum. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 07/2008. This guide provides a four lesson curriculum (90 minutes per lesson) with dynamic activities for parents to encourage a healthy weight in their family.

The core concept of energy balance is emphasized, i.e., the longterm balance between energy in (calories from food) and energy out (calories burned through activity). The lessons are fun and hands-on, with a focus on helping participants learn essential skills that can help their families increase access to and availability of healthy foods, make healthful food choices, become more physically active, and reduce recreational screen time. Participants are encouraged to try new nutrition and physical activity tips with their families, and they are then asked to share their experiences of trying the new behaviors with the group. NOTE - NHLBI encourages all customers who order the We Can Leader Guide to also order 10 copies of the We Can Family Guide, which can be distributed to your friends, neighbors, co-workers, patients, or others. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 07/2008. Although problem sleepiness and its consequences affect all segments of society to some extent, the working group selected the target audiences of (1) shift workers and (2) adolescents and young adults because there is evidence that the prevalence of problem sleepiness is high and increasing in these groups, with particularly serious consequences. Problem sleepiness in both these target groups and society in general is largely related to lifestyle, and data are strong enough to warrant directing educational messages to these groups.

Availability: Online only Publication Date: 08/1997. Need to lower your cholesterol? TLC (therapeutic lifestyle changes) is a set of tools you can use to get results.

This easy-to-read booklet is designed to help you make the lifestyle changes that will lower blood cholesterol and reduce your risk for heart disease. It explains how to follow the TLC diet (low in saturated fat, trans fat, and dietary cholesterol), increase physical activity, and manage weight for people whose cholesterol level is above their goal. The guide includes helpful lists and charts, sample menus, a 10-year coronary heart disease risk calculator, and many tips for success. Make TLC part of your program for heart health. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 12/2005. Get with the plan that is clinically proven to significantly reduce blood pressure! This updated booklet contains a week's worth of sample menus and recipes.

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension(DASH) eating plan features plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other foods that are heart healthy and low in salt/sodium. Also contains additional information on weight loss and physical activity. For those interested in a condensed version on this topic, see 'In Brief: Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH'. Availability: Online only Publication Date: 04/2006. Do you know you should be more physically active, but are confused, concerned, or just can't get started? This guide uses science-based information to help adults develop safe and effective physical activity programs that can be sustained.

Research indicates that regular, moderate physical activity will improve your heart health. Find out about the importance of physical activity in reducing heart disease risk, and how to begin or maintain an activity program that's right for you! Availability: Online only Publication Date: 06/2006. This activity guide is designed for community health educators to organize discussion-based activities for adults and seniors. These activities aim to increase the participants awareness of heart disease through a strategic public health model. Community members will review scenarios about heart disease risk and share personal experiences about living in a heart healthy way. Health educators can conduct these activities in clinics, community centers, schools, senior centers, parks, and even in someone's home.

The key is to educate in fun, engaging ways. By the end of the discussions, the participants will have acquired the knowledge, self-confidence, and motivation to begin leading heart healthy lives. Availability: Hardcopy and Online Publication Date: 02/2006.

Designed to help promotores teach an 11-lesson course on heart health education specifically created for the Latino community. Lessons provide information for understanding, skill building, self-assessment, and goal-setting for healthy lifestyle changes. Includes culturally appropriate teaching scripts, learning activities, and reproducible handouts. Interactive activities use telenovelas, photonovelas, role play, problem-solving, and discussion.

Latino role models and family contexts appear throughout. Designed to be used with the picture cards (08-3275). Available in Spanish and English. Note: Session 2 requires the Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs Video, available on a compilation DVD.

Availability: Online only Publication Date: 05/2008.