Nutrition Programs
Worksite and Community Based Nutrition Programs
Family and Consumer Sciences offer several nutrition education workshops for youth and adults in groups, communities, and worksites. Stand-alone workshops range from 1-2 hours in length and can be grouped together to create a lunch and learn series for your community group or worksite. These low cost workshops can be custom designed with topics most relevant to your worksite and/or community groups and include Intergeneration Cooking Classes, Shopping on a Shoestring Budget, Kids in the Kitchen, Healthy Eating from Your Pantry, Food Safety, and Wellness in the Workplace, among many others.
Building Healthy Habits
Since 1969, the Building Healthy Habits program has influenced the nutritional and physical activity behaviors of low-income families with children through evidence-based nutrition education.
Utilizing a holistic approach, educators deliver hands on, interactive
lessons that focus on four core areas:
diet
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As a result of Building Healthy Habits education, graduates of the program
- Improve their diets
- Improve their nutritional practices
- Stretch their food dollars farther
- Handle food more safely, and
- Increase their physical activity level
Last updated May 20, 2024
“I am going to stop buying sugary drinks. I remember the beverage activity that we worked on where we read labels and converted grams of sugar to teaspoons of sugar. This helped me make the decision not to buy soda or other sugary drinks.”
“I now realize how important it is to get nutrients from the foods that my family eats instead of those extra calories from foods that contain so much fat, sugar and sodium."
