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Healthy Choices for Every Body Adult Nutrition Education Curriculum

University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension (Kentucky Nutrition Education Program)

Healthy Choices for Every Body Adult Nutrition Education Curriculum

Description

Seven-lesson adult curriculum at 6th-grade reading level improving diet quality, physical activity, food safety, and food resource management for limited-resource adults.

The Healthy Choices for Every Body (HCEB) is a direct education intervention designed to improve diet quality, physical activity, and food safety practices, as well as enhance food security and food resource management skills. HCEB incorporates lessons and activities that recognize participants' experiences, skills, and knowledge; explains why, what, and how the nutrition education concepts presented relate to real-life situations; and includes active learning activities, hands-on practice, and demonstrations to help participants understand and apply content.

Evidence: Research-based; quasi-experimental study showed large gains in food resource management and food safety (d=0.9)

Delivery Method
Languages
English
Implementation Details

Registration and terms-of-use agreement required for access