Alpro's science and nutrition team have produced a variety of nutrition resources, available for you to use directly with clients, or simply to inform your own practice. Towards the bottom of this page, we've also highlighted a variety of other useful resources available from well known organisations to assist your practice.

If you would like to order any of the Alpro resources please complete out contact form by clicking here, alternatively you can order by e-mailing us at science@alpro.be, or call our freephone helpline on 0800 0188180.

Discover the World of Soy - Impact on health. This comprehensive book provides superb commentry from independent medical and nutrition experts concerning the health benefits of soya foods.

Nutritionnews Magazine is Alpro’s bumper edition magazine, written by health professionals for health professionals, containing key highlights from e-Nutrition News in 2007. This new publication is packed with nutrition articles and research highlights







NEW DVD RESOURCE: Alpro's Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart Store Tour DVD 
is our latest resource to be offered exclusively to health care professionals. The DVD shows a dietitian guiding the audience around the supermarket shelves and offers advice on making healthier food choices suitable for patient's wanting to improve their heart health. The DVD could be shown in a group education session such as a cardiac rehabilitation programme, and group discussion encouraged afterwards. Guidance notes and suggested group activities are included with this resource.


Alpro 'Eating for Good Health' Tear off-pad is a new resource for practice nurses. With the aid of this easy-to-use pad, practitioners will be able to provide patients with their own pictorial copy of The Balance of Good Health plate model, including top tips for a healthy lifestyle and room to document personalised heallthy eating targets & measurements.

Alpro Healthy Eating for Diabetes leaflet, designed by Alpro's Science and Nutrition team is a new tool to assist practitioners in guiding diabetic patients through 8 easy-to-follow steps towards healthy eating. Healthy eating tips and recipe ideas are also included in this small fold-out resource






Alpro Menopause leaflets for health professionals and patients: These leaflets, written by Nigel Denby, freelance dietitian and dietitian at the Hammersmith Hospital in London provide health professionals with up-to-date information regarding diet and lifestyle advice to assist patients during the menopause. Alpro have produced one leaflet specifically for health professionals and another version which may be given to patient






Alpro Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart leaflet: The Alpro Science and Nutrition Team have developed this new resource for use with patients interested in improving the health of their heart through simple dietary and lifestlye changes. The information provided in the leaflet covers practical tips to help improve cholesterol levels as well as healthy recipe ideas. 

Alpro Healthy Eating for a Healthy Body Shape leaflet:  Another useful resource developed by the Science and Nutrition Team at Alpro, this leaflet covers practical advice to help get patients started with achieving a healthy bodyshape. It includes tips to help increase physical activity levels in addition to sensible suggestions to help with menu planning and making healthy food choices. 

Alpro Healthy Living Resource Kit: The kit contains a supply of “The little book of healthy living” which has been written in a non medical, engaging way with simple practical tips to encourage patients to adopt and follow a healthy but achievable regime. The booklets contain a body shape guide, BMI chart and patient record card to keep and monitor their progress. The booklet is uniquely designed in a fold-out, fold-up credit card sized format. A tape measure has been supplied to help record waist measurements. This kit has been developed by Alpro with dietitians and practice nurses, and in association with H·E·A·R·T UK – The Cholesterol Charity.



Other current resources and useful info from elsewhere in the nutrition world....

The Ready Reckoner from the British Heart Foundation is a new wallet sized card from the British Heart Foundation. It can help shoppers translate food labels, using a simple grid to see if food has the green light for health, whatever labelling system has been used, whether it be traffic light labelling or labels based on Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs). To order your free copy of this handy, wallet-sized card, call 0870 600 6566 quoting ref G204TL.

Physical Activity and Health British Nutrition Foundation Briefing Paper is a new briefing paper from the British Nutrition Foundation. This publication is a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on the health effects of physical activity. It includes the latest prevalence figures, the physiological effects of physical activity and its effects on chronic disease and also a section on public health issues. A great resource for health professionals. A summary is available at www.nutrition.org.uk/physicalactivitybp, or to order your own copy for £7, contact Kim Ralph at k.ralph@nutrition.org.uk or 02074046504.

BNF From Farm to Fork Board Game in support of the Year of Food and Farming, the British Nutrition Foundation has launched an exciting new board game called, From farm to fork! The aim of the game is to match foods to their sources, e.g. milk to a dairy cow, bread to wheat. The game was developed to help children learn more about where their food comes from. You can download the game for free from the ‘Food – a fact of life’ website. Go to http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk  

Food safety resources in preparation for the FDF Food Safety – 9th to13th June 2008. The Food and Drink Federation’s foodlink website provides a host of consumer information on food safety and hygiene, including the ‘4 Cs’ of Cleaning, Cooking, Chilling and avoiding Cross-contamination, covered by the ‘GermWatch’ theme of this year’s Food Safety Week. If you are planning on running or getting involved in an event to promote Food Safety Week, the foodlink website provides a range of resources such as downloadable fact files on food poisoning, hygiene, food storage and preparation at: www.foodlink.org.uk/resources_downloads.asp.