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Healthy
Lifestyle Initiative
University of Missouri Extension is committed to promoting and maintaining
the lifelong health of all Missourians. The Healthy Lifestyle Promotion
Initiative is partnering with communities to enable sustainable
changes to increase access to healthy, affordable food and safe,
accessible physical activity. A holistic community focus will result
in a long-term, replicable model that makes the healthy choice the
easy choice.
Kindergarten Farm Food Initiative is a University of Missouri Extension program that engages children in experiential learning and involves parents and community members by linking schools and families to local food growers. Through the program’s activities and events, relationships are established with local farmers who provide both fruit and vegetable snacks in the classroom and educational farm trips.
The goal of the Gateway to Health Challenge is to help you, your family and your coworkers to have a healthy lifestyle. You can feel better, look better, live longer, increase your energy and improve your health with simple changes and better choices. Most people need some help in making these changes and deciding what’s right for them. This program is a 12-week competition that allows you to “custom fit” your approach to better health in a way that makes sense for you.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy is a ten week strength training program that is designed for middle-age and older adults. Participation in regular strengthening exercises will help you to build muscle and increase bone density, thereby helping to prevent frailty and osteoporosis. The goal of this program is to improve health and quality of life for each participant. Each Stay Strong, Stay Healthy session will include a warm-up, simple strengthening exercises, with or without weights, and cool down stretches.
Eat Smart. Play Hard™. is a national nutrition education and promotion campaign designed to convey science-based, behavior-focused and motivational messages about healthy eating and physical activity to children and their caregivers. Messages developed for the campaign are based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid.
Healthy Staff for Healthy Schools is a wellness program developed to support school staff in implementing school wellness policies by making healthy food and physical activity choices. Because teachers are one of the primary influences in a child’s life, by making healthy choices they serve as effective role models of good health for their students. Healthy Staff for Healthy Schools provides newsletters during the school year with wellness information and encouragement, as well as recipes, tips and fitness videos. In addition, the Healthy Staff for Healthy Schools website contains resources related to wellness.
Food
Power
Through Food Power Classroom Activities, the
Food Power Adventure
and the Food Power Daily, elementary
school students learn the importance of healthy food choices and
regular physical activity. As students travel the path food takes
from the farmer’s field to the sports field, they learn where the
food they eat comes from and how it gives them the energy to grow
and play.
Health for Every
Body
This program introduces a new way of thinking that will move you
away from diets to a gentler non-diet approach to living in a healthy
body. The goal of this program is to help individuals develop new
attitudes and learn skills for healthy living.
From Harvest to Health
How to select, store, prepare and preserve a variety of farm-fresh
produce
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