7 Simple Steps to a Healthier Life
When it comes to nutrition and health education, it's best to keep your messages simple. People are more likely to remember and follow recommendations that are straight-forward and basic.
Our 7 Simple Steps poster provides a lot of information, but it's broken down into specific steps that can be taken one at a time. Each step will save you calories. If you add up all seven steps, you could end up saving 500,000 calories per year.
The steps touch on: MyPlate, healthy snacks and beverages, breakfast, portion control, nonfat dairy foods, and exercise.
Use the 7 Simple Steps concept to help your clients, employees, or students move step-by-step toward a healthier lifestyle. While the steps are numbered on the poster, people can choose where to start.
Here are some ways you could use the poster and accompanying PDF handouts:
- Create a 7 Simple Steps bulletin board display. The poster comes with a sample bulletin board layout. Adapt it to your audience, perhaps by focusing on a different step each week.
- Offer a 7 Simple Steps virtual group session. Present the seven steps and get a discussion going using the questions listed below in #5.
- Run a week-long 7 Simple Steps social media campaign. Present one step every day. Encourage followers to comment on how they could follow each step.
- Take a 7 Simple Steps poll. Whether your audience is made up of social media followers or employees who see the poster on your bulletin board, let them chime in on which step they want to work on most.
- Ask questions in your group or individual sessions:
- Which of these steps do you already do?
- Which could you start working on?
- What step do you want to work on first?
- How will you do it?