Teaching Liver Health
Teaching Tools
LHI creates and distributes unique educational materials and teaching tools, which highlight important liver health messages.
- Young and impressionable minds need encouragement to take an interest in their bodies, especially their life-sustaining liver. The easiest and most effective way to change behaviors is to start with kids.
- These tools were created to help young children and their parents learn quick and easy liver health messages that they can apply to their daily lives.
Olivia & Oliver: Meet Your Miraculous Liver
This coloring book was created as a tool to help children and their parents start a dialogue about liver health.
Fun and lively characters, Olivia & Oliver, teach children why and how to develop healthy behaviors that will protect their liver.
Get To Know Me Brochure
This brochure is a quick and easy read, with valuable liver health information.
Readers will learn specifics about what functions the liver performs for the body, helping readers understand how their actions and behaviors directly impact the health of their lives.
How Can You Love Me Brochure
This brochure was the one that started it all.
Having been made over 25 years ago, it was distributed internationally and duplicated in several languages. Readers will become acquainted with their liver and learn why it is so important to take care of their silent internal partner and protector.
Teaching Teens and Tots
Your liver is like the powerful engine in a car — it keeps you running strong and healthy every day! It works 24/7 as your body’s personal power plant, refining everything you eat, breathe, or absorb through your skin. Liver cells are the busy workers that perform over 5,000 important jobs to keep you alive.
Teachers serve as "surrogate parents" while children are at school, helping them develop a foundation of knowledge that will carry them through life.Liver health education is a critical component of this foundation and ties into conversations about nutrition, physical activity, disease, and drug abuse prevention.
LHI strives to support the vital role teachers play in educating young children about their bodies and how to take care of them.
Our tools and messages facilitate classroom learning and open a dialogue about maintaining healthy lifestyles. Scroll through to Teaching Modules, Lesson Plans, Class Activities, and Testimonials from other educators!
Educational Videos
Originally created by Thelma King Thiel with the Hepatitis Foundation International, Give Your Liver A Break is an entertaining take on learning about the good ol' liver.Liver health education comes alive, with the help of our fun-loving character "Lenny the Liver"!
Originally created by Thelma King Thiel with the Hepatitis Foundation International.Give teenagers and young adults a wake-up call with this powerful video, depicting the dangerous consequences that drugs, alcohol, and other risky behaviors can have on their liver, and their life.
Originally created by Thelma King Thiel with the Hepatitis Foundation International.This eye-catching video sheds light on the dangers ofexposure to viral hepatitis and the personal impactinfection can cause. This underscores the importance of protecting your liver and your life from potential infection.
Visionaries has been producing a documentary series for public television since 1995. Hosted by Sam Waterston of the TV show Law & Order, the documentary series highlighting the stories of nonprofit organizations around the world that are working to make a positive difference in their communities and beyond.
In this video, Thelma King Thiel of the Liver Health Initiative highlights the critical role of the liver as the body’s "internal chemical power plant," responsible for detoxifying everything we eat, breathe, and absorb. She addresses the dangerous lack of public awareness regarding liver disease, noting that because the liver is a "non-complaining" organ, many people—particularly baby boomers—may be living with Hepatitis C or cirrhosis without realizing it.
Today’s episode is all about the liver. Thelma Thiel, founder and chair of The Liver Health Initiative, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about this “silent organ” that, among many roles, removes toxins from what you eat, breathe, and absorb through your skin. They also discuss Thiel’s efforts in advocacy and education—including her talking about the "football-sized" liver with an NFL team.