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Impact Report
| For plan | KA 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (Doņa Ana County) |
| Date | October 27, 2011, 4:02 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | NUTRITION/FOOD SAFETY The agent offered general nutrition/food safety information as part of workshops to elementary, middle school and university students, parents, seniors, department of health clients and colonias residents. The agent also offered nutrition information as part of community events such as health fairs, the Home and Garden Show, Las Cruces National Night Out and the Hatch Chile Festival. A particularly impactful part of this nutrition education is a display that shows how much sugar and fat is in common snack foods (i.e. candy bars, chips and soda). The agent has anecdotal evidence of the impact of this display. For example one woman said her elementary school-age son warned his father of the amount of sugar contained in soda after seeing the display. City and County staff have also requested this display be present at future community events. The agent has also had requests from Family & Consumer Sciences teachers, NMSU Community Health and public health students and a local sports rehabilitation center request use of the display. The agent documented 4,715 nutrition and food safety contacts this year. |