Healthy Lifestyle Initiative, University of Missouri Extension

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The Healthy Lifestyle Initiative

is a collaborative effort of the

following MU Extension

program areas:

Agriculture & Natural Resources

Business Development

4-H/Youth Development

Community Development

Human Environmental Sciences

Continuing Education

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Healthy Lifestyle Initiative

Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

Community Engagement and

Policy Development Summit

Producing for Healthy Food Systems

What are some of the issues surrounding your policy area?

Education

Consumer (Price of food & Where to buy local) & Producer (Extending growing season)

Increase specialty crop funding

Youth growers-attractive career

Increase victory garden

Labor for growers

Crops with less chemicals

Increase access to local produce

Getting products to grocery stores/restaurants

Increase prices

Building cooperatives

FOCUS:

Building marketing coalitions

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Healthy Lifestyle Initiative, University of Missouri Extension

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New publication from the CDC - Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States

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Current Health Care reform bill has provision that could provide billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms and even farmers' markets.