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It Starts With Us
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
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Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes Program (Curriculum)
Family Mealtime (Curriculum)
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Thirty percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. As a result, Kentuckians are dying from heart disease and cancer at higher rates than all Americans and they have a lower life expectancy, 75.5 years, compared to 78 years for Americans. The goal of the Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices initiative is to reverse these trends by working with various organizations, agencies, and groups to promote the health and wellness in all Kentuckians.
--A decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly
--Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily
--Improvement in the mental health and wellbeing of Kentuckians
--Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke and hypertension
--Increase the estimated health savings in dollars for chronic disease
--Practice healthy food choices and strengthen individuals' ability to build healthy eating plans and patterns
--Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors
--Changes related to obesity, physical activity and healthy eating
--Practice healthy lifestyle decision-making that strengthens individuals' ability to cope with normal life stressors
Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding:
--Healthy lifestyle choices
--Childhood and youth obesity
--Adult weight management
--Healthy aging
--Reduction of chronic disease
Initial Outcome: Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Indicator: 37, 38, 39, 46, 47, 48
Method: Program evaluation tools
Timeline: SPR 2017
Intermediate Outcome: Practice healthy food choices and strengthen individuals' ability to build healthy eating plans and patterns
Indicator: 37, 38, 39, 46, 47, 48
Method: Program evaluation tools, follow-up surveys
Timeline: FALL 2017-SPR 2018
Long-term Outcome: Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily
Indicator: 37, 38, 39, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
Method: Follow-up surveys
Timeline: FALL 2017-SPR 2018
Audience: individuals and families, health professionals, KEHA, schools, human and social service agencies, community coalitions & organizations, local government
Project or Activity: Manage Healthy Weight throughout the Lifecycle through Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Content or Curriculum: LEAP
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service agents, program assistants, specialists, and volunteers, Kentucky CES publications and resources, Local, state, and federal health agencies, USDA, Community and faith-based organizations
Date: FALL 2017-Fall 2018
Audience: individuals and families
Project or Activity: Reduce Chronic Disease Risk and Debilitation and Premature Death by Practicing Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Content or Curriculum: Taking Ownership of your Diabetes, Family Mealtime
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service agents, program assistants, specialists, and volunteers, Kentucky CES publications and resources, KEHA, Local, state, and federal health agencies, USDA, Community and faith-based organizations
Date: FALL 2017-FALL 2018
Author: Vicki Wynn
Major Program: Know the 10 Signs
One in three senior adults dies each year due to Alzheimer's disease or related dementia (Alzheimer's Association, 2016). Alzheimer's is an incurable brain disease that causes a slow, progressive decline in memory, thinking and reasoning skills (Alzheimer's Association, 2016). Learning more about the disease and its warning signs is important because timely detection may offer benefits for people living with dementia and their families. For example, some memory loss or dementia-l
Author: Vicki Wynn
Major Program: Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Regular physical activity is fun and healthy, but statistics show according to a 2016 report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 54% of Kentuckians engage in less than 150 minutes per week of physical activity. The "Couch Potato Challenge", a 12-week newsletter-based walking program is designed for individuals who are struggling to begin an exercise program, or have not been physically active in a long time. Vicki Wynn, Family & Consumer Sciences agent, l
