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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.
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.
Hotline
Directory
A master list of addresses, toll free numbers, and web sites for food
and nutrition-related organizations, agencies, and manufacturers.
Categories include: Food Preservation; Equipment; Food Safety;
Environment; Food Products, Manufacturing and Service; Health and
Wellness; World Nutrition and Hunger; Health Fraud; Agencies for
Consumers; and Newsletters.
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.
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Harvest to Health
How to select, store, prepare and
preserve a variety of farm-fresh produce
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