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Impact Report
| For plan | KA 703. Nutrition Education and Behavior (McKinley County Nutrition Plan of Work ) |
| Date | October 15, 2007, 10:04 pm |
| For Objective | Medium-term Show medium-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Schedualing the Gallup McKinley County and BIA Schools for Nutrition porgrams has kept the Nutrition Educators, LaRae Kendall and Gloria Yazzie busy this year. With the growing number of obese children reported through news or other research, educating the youth is a good way of starting to decrease health problems such as diabetes, high cholesterol and other health problems associated with today's children. The number of students that have completed Cooking With Kids, Eat Smart/Play Hard, or Team Nutrition are about 4,376. There are 5 groups that completed all 3 of the curriculumes during the year. Teachers have already requested the programs for next year. The totals reported are from September of 2006 to August of 2007. Adult programs total about 50 ICAN graduates and one time programs total 106. The ICAN graduates completes the 12 lessons and received their ICAN certificate. The one time lessons include Career/Health Fairs, WIC, ISD, Senior Citizens Centers that request single ICAN lessons or other requested specific nutrition programs. Requests for 2007-2008 are already in palce for the comming school year. Sending nutrition information home with the students has been a great success in changing the eating habits of the students in McKinley County. The Wellness Committee has been a great advocate in the promotion the nutrition programs in the schools. Changing the eating habits of people in the rural communities is slow, but the change will benefit the next generation in many ways. Another concept under way is bring the family meals back to the table one meal at a time. This is one of the 2007-2008 goals. |