Washington County reports that 29% of its residents have some form of hypertension and report being physically unhealthy at least 5 days a month.

(http://www.kentuckyhealthfacts.org/data/location/show.aspx?cat=1%2C2%2C3%2C5%2C8%2C11&loc=115)

To combat these numbers the Washington County Family Consumer Science agent and the SNAP-Ed Program Assistant with the Lincoln Trail Health Department and Washington County Community Education offered a
Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle course titled Biggest Winner 2017.

Weekly meetings were held over the course of 3 months.  This group reached 34 participants, with 76 additional people being reached in the participant’s families.  The information taught was based on the ‘Healthy Choices for Everybody’ curriculum.

At the end of the program 94% of participants showed improvement in one or more nutrition practices, i.e. plans meals, makes healthy food choices, prepares food without adding salt, reads nutrition labels or has children eat breakfast.