Success StoryWeight the Reality Series
Weight the Reality Series
Author: Amanda Howard
Planning Unit: Magoffin County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
According to the Kentucky Extension Community Assessment for Magoffin County in 2019, thirty-nine percent of the population is considered obese. Magoffin County has 41.3% of the households who are at or below the poverty level. Beginning January 19, 2020, the Supplemental Nutrition Education Program Assistant Senior partnered with the Family and Consumer Science Educator to deliver Weight, the Reality Series program. A program to promote weight lose by educating the participants. The Supplemental Nutrition Education Program Assistant Senior delivered lessons from the Healthy Choice for Everybody and prepared healthy recipe for tasting during each of the ten-week classes.
At the end of ten-week series those who participated have all reported they had gained valuable knowledge about eating healthy, cooking healthy, and gained useful information about themselves and their personal weight-loss patterns. As a result of the Healthy Choices lessons and recipes prepared by the Supplemental Nutrition Education Program Assistant Senior participants learned how to shop and prepare food in a healthier manner.
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