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Grain Talk

Visit the "Grain Talk" blog for the latest and greatest in the world of wheat . You can even post comments to tell us what you think.

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The USDA Menu Planner is free of charge and helps motivate individuals and families to make healthier food choices. It gives you an easy way to know whether you are losing or gaining weight based on what you plan to eat. And it helps you plan upcoming meals.

The Menu Planner is useful to those interested in healthful and nutritious diets, high school and middle school classes, and dietitians, health professionals, and nutrition educators for use in counseling and educational programming.

Recipe of the month
Smoked Salmon with Angel Hair Pasta
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Professional Resources
The following are resources for professionals. Many are free!
For downloadable lesson plans for kids of all ages, please click here. (All lesson plans provided by WFC Members)
Newsletter
The Wheat Foods Council wants to be your resource for wheat food information. We are proud to launch a FREE quarterly healthcare professional newsletter that will deliver the most current nutrition and industry information as it relates to wheat and other grain foods. Relevant and timely, "Grains of Wisdom" will help you educate and enlighten your clients.
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Spanish Materials
El Grano del Trigo
El Grano del Trigo: Es la semilla de la cual crece la planta del trigo.
Cada semilla pequeñita contiene tres partes distintas que son separadas
durante el proceso de transformación para producir la harina.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
El Grano del Trigo - Poster
2008 - A four-color, 17" x 22" poster with kernel of wheat and information about whole and enriched grains in Spanish.
Price: $1.00
Granos Integrales, Son Faciles
En el pasado, se pensaba que los granos integrales no aportaban nada más que fibra.
Sin embrago, nuevas investigaciones científicas revelan que los granos integrales ofrecen
vitaminas y minerales, además de altos niveles de antioxidantes y otros nutrientes
derivados de las plantas.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Nutrition Information
2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Link to Dietary Guidelines booklet for professionals
Price: FREE
Downloadable
ADA Fact Sheet - Whole Grains Made Easy
NEW! "Whole Grains Made Easy" fact sheet.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Amazing Wheat DVD
The Amazing Wheat DVD was produced by the University of Idaho in cooperation with the Wheat Foods Council and various wheat commissions in 1999 and has been updated in 2008 to reflect the new MyPyramid recommendations.
Price: $5.00
CNPP Trends in Dietary Fiber in the U.S. Food Supply
The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion has released a fact sheet on Trends in Dietary Fiber in the U.S. Food Supply; Sales of Grain Products.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Dietary Guidelines for Professionals
2005 - Presentation explaining science behind the development of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines and MyPyramid.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Fact vs Fad Brochure
Setting the Record Straight - 2006
Price: $0.25
Fiber Fact Sheets (4) PDFs
2007 - Fiber fact sheets provides a small list of how to find higher fiber foods, explains the difference between soluble, insoluble and resistance starch, as well as a question and answer page.
Free - Downloadable
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Fiber Fact Sheets (Set of 2, Front & Back)
2007 - Fiber fact sheets provides a small list of how to find higher fiber foods, explains the difference between soluble, insoluble and resistance starch, as well as a question and answer page.
Price: $0.25
Grains: Groundwork of Good Nutrition - CD
2005 - Media kit containing tools for health professionals and media that extend MyPyramid messages.
Price: $4.00
It's the Calories, Not the Carbs Presentation
Power point presentation for professionals that accompanies the It’s the Calories Not the Carbs book.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Live Well Leaders Guide
Bringing the Nutrient-Density Message of MyPyramid
and the Dietary Guidelines to Life
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Live Well Reproducible Handouts
LIVE WELL!
ADVICE FOR TODAY
There are 15 pages of reproducible handouts for your use.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
USDA Grain Consumption By Americans, 2005
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Research
A High-Carbohydrate, High-Fiber Meal Improves Endothelial Function in Adults With Metabolic Syndrome
New research which supports eating a high-carbohydrate, high-fiber diet and the impact it has with the Metabolic Syndrome in adults.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Effect of Isocaloric low-fat, low-carbohydrate and moderate fat diets on obesity and inflammatory heart disease
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Influence of glycemic index/load on glycemic response, appetite and food intake in healthy humans
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Pattern and predictors of folic acid supplement use among pregnant women: the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Patterns and predictors of maternal folic acid supllement use have not been examined in large perspective studies of pregnant women.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Whole Grains and Human Health
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Whole-Grain Diets Reduce Blood Pressure in Mildly Hypercholesterolemic Men and Women
"NEW" The object of this study was to compare the effects on blood pressure ....
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Symposium Proceedings
Grains for the Health of It
2001 Symposium – Increasing Grains and Whole Grains Consumption as a Strategy for Health, sponsored by the Wheat Foods Council and the University of Minnesota.
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Whole Grains Summit - Summary
2005 Symposium - University of Minnesota
Price: FREE
Downloadable
White Papers
Contradictions and Challenges: A Look at the Glycemic Index
This 2005 White Paper, written by WFC spokesperson Julie Miller Jones, PhD, puts this issue into the proper perspective. The paper was reviewed and approved by the American Diabetic Association.
Price: $0.80
Folate, Grains & Health
2007 - Written by Elyse A. Cohen, MS, LN, an independent consultant specializing in health and nutrition communications for consumer and technical applications.
Price: $0.80
Functional Benefits of Grain Foods
2005 - White paper. Written by WFC media spokesperson Joanne Slavin, Ph.D, RD. The white paper examines the specific benefits of grain foods and their relationship to overall health.
Price: $0.80
Posters
"50 Way To Leave Your Love Handles"
The newly revised 16" x 22" 4 color poster - "50 Ways To Leave Your Love Handles" lists 50 ways to incorporate whole grain foods into your daily diet.
Price: $1.00
El Grano del Trigo - Poster
2008 - A four-color, 17" x 22" poster with kernel of wheat and information about whole and enriched grains in Spanish.
Price: $1.00
Great Grain Caper Game Slick
Game Slick - 2006
Price: $0.25
Great Grain Caper Poster
2005 - A 22" x 17" four-color poster contains MyPyramid for kids with hidden grain foods.
Price: $1.00
Kernel of Wheat Poster
2005 - A four-color, 17" x 22" poster with kernel of wheat and information about whole and enriched grains.
Price: $1.00
Lifestyles of the Fit & Fabulous Poster
2005 17" x 22" four-color poster designed with lively animated food peoples.
Price: $1.00
Images
2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Cover
Image of cover of 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Price: FREE
Downloadable
Finding Your Way to a Healthier You
Downloadable 2005 Dietary Guidelines consumer brochure
Price: FREE
Downloadable
High-Resolution Kernel of Wheat Diagram
High-Resolution Kernel of Wheat Diagram
Price: FREE
Downloadable
My Pyramid Graphics
MyPyramid, Grain pyramid, MyPyramid for Kids graphic images
Price: FREE
Downloadable
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