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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT
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Janet Johnson, Ph.D.
Vice President of Research and Product Development
Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc.
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Today, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. launched a Healthy Eating Program to improve health and protect the 36% of American adults who are at a healthy weight from becoming overweight or obese. Maintaining a healthy weight is an increasingly difficult challenge in today’s “obeseogenic” society where overconsumption and unhealthy foods have become the norm.
The Pro-Change Program for Healthy Eating comprehensively and broadly addresses healthy eating to promote the adoption of a pattern of eating that encourages the consumption of nutrient-dense foods from a variety of food groups; as well as the limitation of unhealthy nutrients, energy-dense foods, and sodium.
The Healthy Eating program’s recommendations are based on leading national guidelines for healthy eating and nutrition, including those of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the American Diabetes Association. The Program incorporated all of the recommendations from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans which recommends a “total” diet approach.
Given each national guideline’s emphasis on fruit and vegetable consumption as a cornerstone of healthy eating habits, the program first assesses and provides individualized Transtheoretical Model-based feedback on fruit and vegetable intake. Consistent with the dietary guidelines, the program provides tailored feedback on other important elements of the “total diet,” including servings of whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and lean proteins, as well as calorie and saturated fat intake.
The computer-tailored intervention leads directly to an interactive stage-based portal, which contains tools, games, quizzes, testimonials, flip books, grocery lists, and other activities designed to compliment the feedback the user received in their session.
The Healthy Eating Program is now part of Pro-Change’s URAC Gold Award winning LifeStyle Suite which has a completely redesigned user experience that is optimized for ease of use, participant retention, and cross-browser compatibility.
The redesign includes:
- New graphic look and feel
- Brand flexible screen templates
- Intuitive navigation
- Addition of sleep, having a primary care provider, and responsible drinking behaviors to the Health Risk Intervention (HRI)
- Shortened individualized feedback
- Added stage-matched goals.