Join the We Can!^® Facebook Page

The We Can!^® Facebook page offers links to healthy snacks and recipes, physical activity tips to take advantage of the spring weather, and more. If you're on Facebook, visit our page and join a community interested in healthy eating, reduced screen time, and physical fitness. Then log off, and go outside with your family and enjoy the spring weather.

Reduce Screen Time With These Three Tips

1. Create a House Rule: Limit screen time to 2 hours every day and enforce the rule.
   
   
2. Keep Bedrooms Screen Free: Keep TVs and computers out of your child's bedroom. Kids who have TVs in their rooms tend to watch about 1.5 hours more TV a day than those who don't. Plus, it keeps them in their room instead of spending time with the rest of the family.
   
   
3. Be Active During Screen Time: When you do spend time in front of the screen, stretch, do yoga, and/or lift weights. Or, challenge the family to see who can do the most push-ups, jumping jacks, or leg lifts during TV commercial breaks.

Find more tips to reduce screen time on the We Can!^® Web site.

Spread the Word About Nutrition and Healthy Living

We Can!^® offers families and communities a variety of resources to learn about nutrition and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Four New Tip Sheets
Four new tip sheets are available for you to tack up on your bulletin board, stick under a fridge magnet, or copy and hand out to your family and friends. They cover topics from Sugar in Drinks and Making Physical Activity Fun to Fats and Oils to Choose and Help Children Reduce Screen Time.

Download these free tip sheets at: http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov/tools-resources/index.htm

U R What U Eat is a two-page handout that helps kids understand how to make healthy food choices, based on the Go, Slow, and Whoa foods, which were adapted from the CATCH^®: Coordinated Approach to Child Health, 4th Grade Curriculum and developed in conjunction with youth.  This handout identifies the best food choices in the fruit, vegetable, grains, milk, and meats and beans food groups. This eye-catching resource can be incorporated into We Can! programming for an array of audiences, ranging from children to adults.

It is available for download free of charge at: http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov/downloads/urwhateat.pdf

We Can!^® Energize Our Families: Parent Program—A Leader's Guide
This comprehensive guide provides four 90-minute lessons. The fun, hands-on lessons focus on teaching participants essential skills that they can use to help their families increase healthy activities. Lessons address healthy foods, making healthy food choices, becoming more physically active, and reducing recreational screen time. The core concept of energy balance—the balance between energy in (calories from food) and energy out (calories burned through activity)—is emphasized.

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We Can!^® Energize Our Families: A Family Guide
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 healthfully, and tracking their family's physical activity and screen time.

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We Can!^® Youth and Adult Wristbands
Wearing a wristband shows support for a healthier future for our children and shows a "can do" attitude for maintaining a healthy weight. These sky-blue wristbands are stamped with the We Can!^® logo. Share them with your friends, coworkers, and family.

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Order the Youth wristband today for ONLY $2 each
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