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Family Living Programs

Nutrition for Family Living Newsletters
Archived monthly newsletters developed by UW-Extension Family Living Programs nutrition staff.

UW-Extension Food and Health Webography
Steenbock Library provides this page with annotated links to Internet resources keyed to UW-Extension Cooperative Extension program directions.

Wisconsin School Breakfast

Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program (WNEP)
The Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program provides nutrition, food budgeting, and food safety education programs to limited income families, children and seniors.
WNEP offers educational programs in most Wisconsin counties. If you would like to learn more about WNEP in your county go to our county WNEP directory
Information about the management and educational programming of WNEP is available on a web site that is designed for use by WNEP colleagues - WNEP website

Wisconsin Nutrition Education Network
The Wisconsin Nutrition Education Network is a collaboration of nutrition education programs. The Network promotes healthful and enjoyable eating so that Wisconsin’s low-income individuals and families receive consistent, positive, relevant, accurate, and effective nutrition messages. This is accomplished by facilitating collaborative planning of nutrition education programs at the state and local levels. Through educational resources, the Wisconsin Nutrition Education Network aims to improve physical activity and healthy eating habits among low-income caregivers of children.
For more information about the Network and its activities

UWEX-Cooperative Extension Infosource
Searchable file of food/nutrition tips from UW-Extension

UWEX-Cooperative Extension Publications
UW-Extension publications on food/nutrition topics

Other Resources
These links take you to websites that are not part of the UW-Extension website.

Tufts Nutrition Navigator website
A rating guide to Nutrition websites from Tufts University

Nutrition.Gov
Nutrition.gov provides easy access to information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals.

Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Home page for the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, the agency that publishes the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and related materials such as the Healthy Eating Index, Nutrition Insights reports, and the Thrifty Food Plan.

MyPyramid

USDA's new MyPyramid food guidance system provides many options to help Americans make healthy food choices and to be active every day.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health

CDC Nutrition and Physical Activity Topic Index
Nutrition and physical activity information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

American Dietetic Association
American Dietetic Association


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