Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), is offering free resources on nutrition and health to all Oklahomans for National Nutrition Month in March. From nutritious, delicious recipes and easy-to-follow workout guides to blogs covering a variety of health topics, Shape Your Future resources make the healthy choice the easy choice.

Creating healthy habits helps prevent a variety of diseases brought on by obesity. Shape Your Future recognizes common barriers to healthier lifestyles, such as a lack of time, money or accessibility. Its messaging provides practical solutions for overcoming those barriers and building healthy habits around nutrition, physical activity, hydration and living tobacco free.

“At TSET, we are committed to providing Oklahomans with the tools and resources to make healthier choices every day,” said Julie Bisbee, TSET executive director. “National Nutrition Month is a great time to take small, achievable steps toward better health behaviors. By making nutritious choices, staying active and developing lifelong healthy habits, we can help prevent obesity and chronic disease.”

Shape Your Future’s three tips to eat healthier and feel better:

• Fill half your plate with fruits and veggies to ensure you get the recommended daily amount. Explore hundreds of healthy recipes for free and create an account to save your favorites in one place.

• Choose water instead of sugary drinks. Popular beverages such as soda, sports drinks, juice boxes, lemonade and flavored coffees and teas are packed with sugar. Shape Your Future’s Sugary Drink Calculator helps Oklahomans see how much sugar they are drinking.

• Keep it simple! Don’t overcomplicate it. Start with understanding the basic food groups and focus on small changes. They will add up over time!

Find more free tips, downloads and resources to start building healthier habits today at ShapeYourFutureOK. com.

Shape Your Future is a community health education intervention that encourages Oklahomans to eat better, move more and be tobacco free. Shape Your Future strives to educate parents, teachers, caregivers and all Oklahomans on how to make the healthy choice the easy choice. Find more information online at ShapeYourFutureOK. com. The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) serves as a partner and bridge builder for organizations shaping a healthier future for all Oklahomans. TSET provides leadership at the intersections of health by working with local coalitions and initiatives across the state, cultivating innovative and life-changing research and working across public and private sectors to develop, support, implement and evaluate creative strategies to take advantage of emerging opportunities to improve the public’s health. To learn more, go to Oklahoma.gov/TSET.