Facebook
Live Series to provide helpful tutorials for adults, teens and kids
Baton Rouge, La. – The Nutrition, Health and
Wellness Department of the Southern University Ag Center will conduct a Facebook
Live Series with Nutrition Education and Physical Activity lessons through its
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP-Ed) and Expanded Food and
Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).
The live streams will be held
June 17 – July 8 at 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. on the SUAg
SNAP-Ed’s Facebook page.
The topics covered during the
series will include:
· Incorporating
Exercise Into Your Daily Schedule
· Healthy Snacks for
Children During the Summer
· Container Gardening
· Eating Healthy on
a Budget
· Preserving and
Canning
· Food Safety
· Physical Activity
· Spicing up your
Family Dinners
“The SU Ag Center's SNAP-Ed
and EFNEP programs believe that
positive behavior changes, inclusive of diet
and physical activity are paramount when it comes to living our
best most healthy lives,” said Dr. De’Shoin York, Associate Vice Chancellor for
Extension and Outreach and Program Leader for the Center’s Department of Nutrition,
Health & Wellness. “This series will give
our participants some practical tools to assist them on their journey to
live their best lives,” she added.
SNAP-Ed
is the nutrition promotion and obesity prevention component of the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the U.S. domestic hunger safety net
formerly known as Food Stamps that provides economic benefits to eligible,
low-income individuals and families for food purchases. The program teaches people using or eligible
for SNAP about proper nutrition and how to make their food dollars stretch
further. SNAP-Ed participants also learn to be physically active.
The
SU Ag Center’s SNAP-Ed program has been in existence for more than 20 years and
operates in 13 parishes throughout the state of Louisiana: Ascension,
Avoyelles, Calcasieu, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana,
Evangeline, Jefferson Davis, Madison, Morehouse, St. James, Richland, and West
Carroll.
EFNEP
is designed to assist limited-resource adults and youth in acquiring the knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and behavioral changes necessary for nutritionally sound diets.
EFNEP Programming is currently available
in Avoyelles, Evangeline, and Rapides parishes.
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