What is Turn a New Leaf?
Turn a New Leaf (TANL) is New Hampshire’s first countywide healthy dining initiative. Monadnock HEAL (Healthy Eating, Active Living) developed the Turn a New Leaf initiative in late 2011 to support the region’s Healthy Monadnock 2020 efforts of becoming the nation’s healthiest community by year 2020. The TANL initiative guides restaurant patrons to healthier menu options using a simple, colorful logo of a red heart and green elm leaf. Using nutritional criteria, developed by graduate students of Keene State College’s Dietetic Internship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines in mind, the TANL logo identifies the meals that are healthy, healthier, and healthiest on a restaurant’s menu.
Turn a New Leaf acts as an easy aid that identifies both caloric content and nutritional value of restaurant meals, helping customers choose healthier options when eating away from home. The program highlights those options that contain whole grains, fruit, vegetables, and beans; while limiting sodium, saturated fat, total calories, and eliminating trans-fat.
The TANL program also provides guidance and resources to food establishments to support these ideals of promoting health in the community. In providing assistance with environmental strategies (small changes that increase the availability and likelihood of customers choosing healthy dining options) the TANL program continues to grow throughout the Monadnock region and beyond.
Turn a New Leaf acts as an easy aid that identifies both caloric content and nutritional value of restaurant meals, helping customers choose healthier options when eating away from home. The program highlights those options that contain whole grains, fruit, vegetables, and beans; while limiting sodium, saturated fat, total calories, and eliminating trans-fat.
The TANL program also provides guidance and resources to food establishments to support these ideals of promoting health in the community. In providing assistance with environmental strategies (small changes that increase the availability and likelihood of customers choosing healthy dining options) the TANL program continues to grow throughout the Monadnock region and beyond.
Our Goals:
1. Create healthy eating environments within the Monadnock Region by assisting local partners who highlight, identify and promote healthier menu items.
2. Create consistent, credible, and easily recognized nutritional guidance for consumers in participating venues.
3. Increase consumer demand for healthy items prepared or eaten away from home with marketing tools and local promotions.
2. Create consistent, credible, and easily recognized nutritional guidance for consumers in participating venues.
3. Increase consumer demand for healthy items prepared or eaten away from home with marketing tools and local promotions.