Community Nutrition Education: Improving the Health and Well-Being for Limited-Resource Audiences Across West Tennessee. Obesity, poor nutrition, and limited physical activity are major health concerns. Unfortunately, this has serious implications for the future health of Tennesseans. Extension’s nutrition education programs are aimed at helping youth and families adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors. Lessons focus on nutritious meals, physical activity, food budgeting, food safety and much more.
Nutrition & Food Safety Links
Adult Programs
Dining with Diabetes
Dining with Diabetes is a program designed for people with diabetes. The three-class series includes learning how to manage diabetes, food demonstrations, and tasting healthy familiar foods.
Cooking Matters for Adults
Promotes fruit and vegetable tastings for elementary school-age children and empowers youth to make healthy lifestyle choices, including increased intake of fruits and vegetables and being more physically active.
Faithful Families
It is a nutrition curriculum designed specifically for faith-based communities, such as churches, temples, or mosques to promote healthy eating, food resource management, and physical activity. In addition, the lessons include guides to promote a healthy environment in the faith-based community.
Living Well with Chronic Conditions
A six-week evidence-based group education program that teaches people practical skills they need to live well with a variety of health conditions. Through weekly sessions, the workshop provides support for continuing normal daily activities and dealing with emotions that arise from having a chronic condition.
Youth Programs
Power U
It is a fun and interactive curriculum to teach fourth and fifth graders to develop healthy eating and physical activity habits.
Tasty Days
It is a Share Our Strengths program consisting of six two-hour interactive hands-on trainings to promote behavior change. Cooking Matters focuses on building cooking and food preparation skills as well as teaching nutrition, food safety and food resource management.
Adventures in the Kitchen
This is an interactive program that teaches cooking skills, kitchen safety, and nutrition and promotes physical activity.
Teen Cuisine
Series of six lessons teaching teens nutrition, food preparation and cooking, food safety, and physical activity.