Author: Connie Downey
Planning Unit: Clay County CES
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
The kentuckyhealthfacts.org reports that 38% of the adult population in Clay County is obese. Throughout the year the SNAP-Ed Assistant has been working with Chad’s Hope to teach their clients how to make healthy choices.
During the course of one lesson in the program, titled Know the Limits for Every Body, which is about sugar, fat and sodium 6 of the participants decided that drinking soda was unhealthy after viewing the sugar tubes and reading the food label. They all gave up drinking soda and increased their water intake.
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