Author: Connie Downey
Planning Unit: Clay County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
In Kentucky, 23.8 percent of youth ages 10 to 17 are obese according to State of Childhood Obesity website (stateofchildhoodobesity.org). According to their article, Kentucky is ranked number one among the fifty states.
To help address this, the Clay County Cooperative Extension Service SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education) assistant for SNAP-Ed eligible individuals partnering with the Goose Rock Elementary After School Program.
Using the Team Nutrition and Yummy curriculum to teach the youths the importance of eating healthy. The program also included a healthy food sample. Over the course of the program the youths got to sample different types of vegetables as well as other foods.
At the end of the program, there was a 68 percent improvement of knowing vegetables in the kindergarten through 2nd grade, a 64 percent improvement in eating vegetables and a 73 percent improvement in having vegetables for a snack in the 3rd through 5th grades, and a 100 percent improvement in consuming vegetables in the 6th through 8th grades.
One participants shared, “You know how to make vegetables taste good”.
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