Nutrition Services supports several health campaigns throughout the year to help Alameda County residents maintain and improve their healthy habits. Among our Campaigns:

Happy Heart

The Happy Heart campaign is a countywide effort to promote heart health. Eating more fresh foods high in fiber, protein, calcium, potassium, and magnesium and lower in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats can help prevent high blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Most of the excess salt in our diets comes from packaged, processed, store-bought, and restaurant foods.

SHOW LOVE TO YOURSELF AND OUR ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITIES

Know your blood pressure numbers – aim for <120/80
Eat more whole foods
Eat less processed foods

Happy Heart Resources

Try low-sodium, heart-healthy recipes from diverse cultures and ethnicities: Eat Fresh.org Low-Sodium Recipes

NIH-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Recipes

• Healthy Eating Recipe Website
• Downloadable Cookbooks:
  • Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners
  • Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Family Meals
  • Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes/ Platillos latinos ¡sabrosos y saludables!
  • Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style

Share Happy Heart flyers with family, friends, and community: English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese | Samoan | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese

Learn more about heart health with these Happy Heart education resources:

• Blood Pressure Range: English | Chinese | Spanish
• Check the Nutrition Label: English | Chinese | Spanish
• DASH Diet Tips: English | Spanish
• What is the DASH Diet: English | Spanish
• Happy Heart Recipe Cards: English | Spanish

Herb Seasoning Mix: English | Spanish

Printable Blood Pressure Logs: English/Spanish | Chinese | Vietnamese

DASH Diet Resources

For more information contact Nori Grossman at nori.grossmann@acgov.org.

Content Sources:

1)https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/php/about/index.html

2) https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/WhyDASHWorks_UpdateNov20.pdf

Healthy Snack Day

Make Every Day Healthy Snack Day is a state-wide campaign celebrated locally with our Alameda County communities of all ages to learn about healthy and satisfying snacks. It focuses on how healthy snacking can be simple, tasty, and affordable. Healthy snacking is a powerful tool to reduce the onset of disease. People with healthy eating patterns live longer and are at lower risk for serious health problems.

Your Alameda County Board of Supervisors invests in health and proclaimed October, “Make Every Day Healthy Snack Day – Month.”

You, too, can Make Every Day Healthy Snack Day by taking these steps:

• Promote the benefits of healthy snacks for adults, children, and families.
• Learn more about healthy snack choices.
• Help young and old learn how to make healthy snack choices.
• Share tasty affordable, healthy snack recipes and tips.
• Educate neighbors on how to choose healthy snacks.
• Empower the community to take small steps toward healthy food choices.
• Encourage friends to promote healthy lifestyles by healthy snacking.
• Whether at work, after school, or play, make it a healthy snack day!

Share healthy snack resources with our Alameda County communities.

Content sources:

1. CalFresh Healthy Living 

Rethink Your Drink

The ReThink Your Drink campaign encourages choosing healthy beverage options and raises awareness about the harm of sugary drinks. Sports drinks, energy drinks, and juices are the leading sources of added sugars in the standard American diet. Too much sugar is linked to poor health conditions like heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, dental cavities, arthritis, and weight gain. Make your own delicious, healthy beverages and make wise decisions when rethinking your next drink.

Water is an excellent drink choice, and unsweetened tea is another no-sugar, healthy drink option. Because water makes up about 50-70% of our body’s cells, tissues, and organs, we depend on it to work properly.

Take the next step and be part of the movement to increase awareness and Rethink Your Drink by:

• Posting material on social media.
• Adding an article to your agency’s monthly newsletter.
• Sending an email blast to contacts.
• Promoting the 7-Day Water Challenge.
• Doing a water tasting demonstration.
• Promoting healthy beverage consumption in place of sugary beverages at your events!

Support the campaign by promoting RYTD resources today!

Content sources:

1) UC Davis Health: Good Food as Good Medicine

2) USGS: The Water in You. Water and the Human Body

3) CDC Get the Facts: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Consumption