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Recipe for Healthier Living with Food & Fitness:
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February 5 - March 19, 2013

Recipe for Healthier Living with Food and Fitness is a health and wellness program that is interactive, convenient, flexible, fresh, has lots of variety, is professional, and can be a little or a lot depending on what you want. It consists of a seven-week series of interactive sessions that focus on helping you:

  • Know your numbers
  • Develop goals to improve or maintain health
  • Balance calories to manage weight
  • Know which foods to increase and which to reduce
  • Increase your physical activity level

In-service hours available for childcare providers: Receive up to 7 hours (1 in-service hour per webinar).

How to participate:

  • On-line registration: Click here. (Credit card needed.)
  • Or register by mail. Click here to download a printable brochure with registration form.
  • Registration fee: $15 (includes wellness kit, postage and class fees)
  • Registration deadline: Jan. 28, 2013 ($5.00 late fee after that date)
  • Live sessions will be webcast Tuesdays from noon – 1 pm (Central Time). Choose how you want to participate:
    • At your own computer. You will need an internet connection and web browser. Live sessions will be webcast via Adobe Connect platform.
    • Gather with others at a common site of your choosing with internet access
    • At the designated Extension on site locations listed below, along with a local group
    • Or participate when it works for you, with others or by yourself, by accessing the archived sessions via the eXtension moodle campus. You'll receive instructions after you register.

What we'll cover:

  • Goal setting and tools for tracking
  • Healthier beverages and snacks
  • Fitting in fiber
  • The real scoop on sugar
  • Be sodium savvy
  • Facts about fat
  • Meal planning
  • Physical activity

What people are saying about previous UNL Extension classes :

  • “Substituting ingredients when cooking and looking at all labels. Re-evaluating the ingredients to see if there is a better option.”
  • “I am energized to continue my healthy life and looking forward to spicing it up with some herbs, fun exercising, and rewards!”
  • “I watch what types of foods I put in my body as well as my day care children. Make the majority of our foods from scratch so I know what I am putting into it.”
  • “Already have changed to healthy foods and serving sizes. Losing more weight and looking forward to losing more. Also appreciated the exercises in class. I feel better than I ever have in my life. Thank you for teaching me more helpful information and reminding me to stay on course to good health.”

 

Local sites to participate (updated for 2013):

Northeast Nebraska:

  • Madison County Extension Office, Norfolk. Contact: Lee Sherry, 402-370-4040; lsherry2@unl.edu
  • Cuming County Courthouse, West Point. Contact: Debra Schroeder, 402-372-6006; dschroeder1@unl.edu
  • Dixon County, Concord. Contact: Sandy Preston, 402-584-2234; spreston2@unl.edu
  • Pierce County, Pierce. Contact: Ann Fenton, 402-329-4821; afenton1@unl.edu
  • Cuming County, Wisner. Contact: Kathy Becker at Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department, 2104 21st Circle, 402-529-2233; Kathy@elvphd.org

Southeast Nebraska

  • York County Extension Office, York. Contact: Eileen Krumbach, 402-362-5508; ekrumbach1@unl.edu.
  • Kimmel Education and Research Center, Nebraska City. Contact: Deb Heidzig, 402-873-3166; dheidzig5@unl.edu.
  • Fillmore County Extension Office, Geneva. Contact: Brandy VanDeWalle, 402-759-3712; bvandewalle2@unl.edu
  • Nemaha County Hospital, Auburn. Contact Kim Hahn, 402-274-4366; khahn@nchnet.org . 

Central Nebraska:

  • Hall County Extension Office, Grand Island. Contact: Cami Wells, 308-385-5088; cwells2@unl.edu.

Panhandle:

  • ARCHIVED: Box Butte Extension Office, Alliance. Contact: Jeanne Murray, 308-762-5616; JMURRAY1@unl.edu
  • ARCHIVED: Scotts Bluff County, Scottsbluff. Regional West Health Services. Contact: Omar Ramirez, 308-630-2519, omar.ramirez@rwmc.net
  • ARCHIVED: Central Sandhills. Mullen. Contact: Sue Pearman, 308-645-2267; spearman2@unl.edu
  • ARCHIVED: Dawes County, Chadron. Thursdays 5:30-6:30 p.m.(MT) at UNL Extension Meeting Room, 250 Main St. February 7 - March21. Contact: Jamie Goffena, 308-432-3373; jgoffena2@unl.edu

Out of State:

  • ARCHIVED: Mt. Vernon, IN. Purdue Extension, Posey County. Contact: Jane Jett, 812-838-1331; jjett@purdue.edu

 

Additional Resources

Walk Nebraska

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Small Steps to Health and Wealth™

This health/finance program is designed to motivate you to implement change strategies that simultaneously improve your health and personal finances. You can register for classes OR watch recorded past sessions.

Control Diabetes for Life

Control Diabetes for Life is an educational program that is offered 1-3 times a year in various locations in Nebraska. The sessions are broadcast to several locations throughout the state and recorded for later viewing. Participants learn to control diabetes while preparing nutritious and delicious foods that are low in sugar and fat.