Success StoryI Know How to Better Read Nutrition Lables



I Know How to Better Read Nutrition Lables

Author: Valerie Robinette

Planning Unit: Pike County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

The successful partnership between Pike County Cooperative Extension Service, The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), and West care Rehabilitation continues to provide healthy eating and lifestyle education so that clients can make better nutritional and physical activity choices. 

THE HEALTHY CHOICES FOR EVERYBODY curriculum teaches clients how to make healthy food choices; food portion sizes; healthier alternatives to fast and prepackaged meals; food preparation skills, meal planning budgeting for food; nutritional facts about fats, sugar, sodium; how to read a label, and food safety. Clients also learned that managing their health through proper diet and exercise results in positive impacts on their minds and body. 

Eighteen male clients ages 18-60 entered the program with 100% graduation. Seventy-five percent showed improvement in food resource management practice, such as not running out of food before the end of the month and planning meals in advance. Seventy-two showed improvements in nutrition practice, such as checking "Nutrition Facts" on food labels and preparing breakfast for their children more often. Fifty-eight percent showed improvement in food safety practices, such as not allowing food to thaw at room temperature and refrigerating food within a safe time. 

When asked to share about their experience, residents wrote, " I know now how to better read nutrition labels, and how to plan meals ahead of time" and " I did not know the ill effects of fats, sugar, and salt can have on your health". 






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