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Eat
Your Veggies
High blood pressure,
diabetes, strokes and heart disease are common problems among
American Samoans. In response, extension educators with American
Samoa Community College  helped students and volunteers start
community gardens. The harvest of fresh vegetables helped make
meals more nutritious. American Samoa’s “Women with
Infant Children” program helped participants make healthy food
choices and improve family diets even with limited resources.
Program evaluations reported that 75 percent of 350 clients
demonstrated an increase in knowledge and skills about diet and
nutrition.
Idaho Extension Food and Nutrition
Program partnered with Easter
Seals-Goodwill to offer nutrition training to unemployed welfare
recipients. In before and after comparisons, a third more of the
participants reported eating the recommended servings of grains
after the program, those eating enough fruit daily doubled, and
the number eating broccoli and other vegetables quadrupled.
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