RESOURCE NAME

Chronic Disease and Diet

DATE CREATED/REVISED

Ongoing

BRIEF DESCRIPTION (include major objectives)

These programs are about how healthy eating, including functional foods, and physical activity can be used to prevent or treat some of our most common chronic diseases, such as diabetes (see separate profile), age-related macular degeneration, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis and others.

Major objectives:

Participants will increase their knowledge of how functional foods, healthy eating and physical activity can protect and improve health.

Participants will increase their skills in choosing nutritious meals and snacks and in balancing the food they eat with physical activity.

Participants will improve their dietary quality by increasing their variety of foods and by eating the number of servings from the food groups recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Visit the web at: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition/Functional_Foods.htm

LONG-TERM INTENDED OUTCOMES

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Positive Adult Quality of Life

Enhanced Nutritional Quality of the Food Supply

TIME COMMITMENT

 Fewer than 5 hours per week

 DURATION

More than 1 month but less than 6 months

DIFFICULTY

 Introductory

READING LEVEL

High school

AUDIENCE

Adults in general

Caregivers

Elders

Low-income

Paraprofessionals

Peer educators

Pre-retirees

Retirees

SUBJECT

Aging

Disease management

Health promotion

Mental health

Normal nutrition

Nutrition and exercise

COMPONENTS

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

Bulletins

Evaluation tools

Community event

Face-to-face

Handouts

Games

Group meetings

Home visits

Leader’s guide

Media releases

Learn on their own

Peer interaction

Public displays

Recipes

Resource lists

Slide set

Website

SKILL EMPHASIS

LEADER TRAINING REQUIRED?

SPECIALIST SUPPORT

Consultation with agents

Single-county visits

Multi-county visits

Area meetings

Media participation

Public meeting in county

Knowledge

Behavior change

No

LEADER TRAINING LEVEL

 FREQUENCY OF LEADER TRAINING

Not applicable

Upon request

PROGRAM RESOURCES LIST

CONTACT PERSON/ADDRESS/PHONE

Mary Meck Higgins, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., CDE

Department of Human Nutrition

202 Justin Hall

Manhattan, KS  66506-1407

Phone:  785-532-1671

FAX:  785-532-1678

E-Mail:  mhiggins@ksu.edu    

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Shelly Burklund

Department of Human Nutrition

207 Justin Hall

Manhattan, KS  66506-1407

Phone:  785-532-1670

FAX:  785-532-1678

E-mail: sburklun@ksu.edu