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Impact Report
| For plan | KA 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (Grant County) |
| Date | October 27, 2010, 3:25 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Grant County conducted one Kitchen Creations session for 2010. This was held in the mining community of Bayard, NM at the junior high school home economics kitchen. 38 enrolled, 36 completed the two saturday, 6 hour sessions. of these, 9 were diabetic, 3 were pre-diabetic, and the remainder were caregivers to diabetics. 32 of the 38 participants prepare the food eaten in the home. Ages of participants were 24 aged 45-65, 2 participants were in the 18 - 29 age group and 6 were aged 30 -44. Ethnicity was primarily hispanic (58%), American indian(5%), white non-hispanic (37%). 31 females and 7 males attended the class and 18% considered themselves to be in excellent health, while 68% marked Good health, nearly 11% marked Fair health and one person marked Poor health. On final evaluations, 54% reported that they could use the Diabetes Food Guide Pyramid to plan a day's meal, 73% reported using the 50/50 method to control carbs eaten at meals, 65% reported that they could read food labels to find the amount of carbohydrates in a serving, 73% reported that they could now measure food portions, 58% reported eating at least 2 servings of whole grains per day, 65% eat at least 2 servings of non-starchy vegetables at dinner, and 58% said they would use more herbs and spices to flavor foods instead of salt and fat. Many favorable comments were received after each session and overall. |