Healthy Lifestyle Initiative

Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

The MU Extension Healthy Lifestyle Initiative is working to create healthy communities that support the availability of healthy, affordable, locally-produced food and safe, accessible physical activity.  MU Extension has dedicated resources to develop, deliver and evaluate a holistic and systemic approach to community-based nutrition, health, and physical activity.  Collaborations with communities focus on impacting lifelong health by making the healthy choice the easy choice.

Highlights:
 

• Bring together families, youth, community members, health care providers, agricultural producers, and business leaders

• Assist local stakeholders in creating policies and environments support healthy lifestyle choices

• Link MU Extension resources to partner communities

• Ensure access to healthy, affordable food

• Increase opportunities for safe, accessible physical activity