Nutrition education utilizing the WIN curriculum

       Childhood obesity is a serious epidemic across the commonwealth, especially in Knott Co.  The Knott Co extension council has identified this need for extension to address for numerous years now.  Fall of 2018 Knott Co 4H and an elementary school focused on Wellness and nutrition education. The WIN curriculum was utilized and all grades K through 8 were reached, while grades 4-8 were evaluated.  

       A total of 79 youth participated in the program.  The lessons included food group, healthy food choices, how to keep a food diary, fast food fat content, think your drink and others to address these obesity issues.  Out of the 79 participants only 15 could identify food groups with 100% accuracy before the lessons occurred while 56 out of 79 could after the program.  An overall increase from 19% to 71% of youth participants pre versus post lessons.  

       The program overall was a huge success. In one student’s personal testimony they asked their mother to buy yogurt in lieu of ice cream at home.   The information gained in the lessons were actually being applied in the youth’s lives and the lives of their families.