SU Ag Center’s Dr. Fatemeh Malekian Featured in the Advocate

Malekian teaching on healthy food choices

Baton Rouge, La – Southern University Ag Center Professor Fatemeh Malekian shared a nutrition education program at Windborne Elementary. The event appeared in the Baton Rouge Advocate in the Eat-Play-Live section titled “Parents get lesson in healthy eating for their kids’ sake.”

The article focused on teaching parents to be positive influence on their children eating and other healthy habits. About two dozen mothers and fathers joined the three-month National Obesity Initiative from the La Capitale chapter of The Links Inc. to prevent obesity and the serious health problems associated with it.

“You are the one who chooses the food for your children,” said Fatemeh Malekian, a food science professor at Southern University, while introducing the program. “They will eat what you give them. You have the power.”

View the full article online at http://theadvocate.com/features/10765091-123/breaking-the-links-to-obesity

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