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Nutritional Sciences

Programs & Educational Resources:

FNEP - Family Nutrition Education Program
Nutrition and life skills for low-income families

Healthy Lifestyle Initiative
University of Missouri Extension is committed to promoting and maintaining the lifelong health of all Missourians. The Healthy Lifestyle Promotion Initiative is partnering with communities to enable sustainable changes to increase access to healthy, affordable food and safe, accessible physical activity. A holistic community focus will result in a long-term, replicable model that makes the healthy choice the easy choice.

Stay Strong, Stay Healthy
A ten week strength training program that is designed for middle-age and older adults. Participation in regular strengthening exercises will help you to build muscle and increase bone density, thereby helping to prevent frailty and osteoporosis. The goal of this program is to improve health and quality of life for each participant. Each Stay Strong, Stay Healthy session will include a warm-up, simple strengthening exercises (with or without weights) and cool down stretches.

MyPyramid
A guide to daily food choices

Health and Education Resources for Field Specialists

Healthy Start
A comprehensive preschool health education curriculum for children about nutrition, physical activity, safety, hygiene, smoking, drugs, and sun safety.

Healthy Staff for Healthy Schools
A wellness program developed to support school staff in implementing school wellness policies by making healthy food and physical activity choices. By making healthy choices, teachers serve as effective role models of good health for their students.

Food Power
Elementary school students travel the path food takes from the farmer’s field to the sports field and learn where the food they eat comes from and how it gives them the energy to grow and play.

Food & Fitness at MissouriFamilies.org

Features
Articles on Food & Fitness topics
Quick Answers Q & A
Short answers to commonly asked questions
Learning Opportunities
Workshops, programs, classes, and resources on Food & Fitness

Food Safety at MissouriFamilies.org

Feature Articles
Articles on a variety of Food Safety topics
Quick Answers Q & A
Short answers to commonly asked questions

Nutriteach
Nutrition and Food Safety Education Resources for Elementary and Secondary Teachers

Food, Nutrition & Fitness Guides
Extension Publications

Food Preservation
Quality for Keeps Newsletters

From Harvest to Health at MissouriFamilies.org
How to select, store, prepare & preserve a variety of farm-fresh produce

Health Observances Calendar
(FoodandHealth.com)

Farmers' Market Directory & Buying Guide
Missouri Department of Agriculture

Links
Nutritional Sciences related sites

 

 

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