Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Calloway County Nutrition Education Program Assistants teach nutrition education, food safety, and food security in the community. As a result of these efforts 382 youth were involved in nutrition education programs. Additionally, 54 limited resource families were taught how to serve more nutritious meals, to keep foods safe, and to utilize local food resources effectively; 100 percent of those families made an improvement in the nutritional quality of their diet; 44 percent of the families increased the frequency of moderate physical activity for 30 minutes per day; 47.5 percent of the families demonstrated an improvement in safe food handling practices and hand washing behavior; and 56 percent of families learned to plan meals ahead of time and use a grocery list to guide food selections. 
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