Recent research underlines the value of teaching children proper diet and exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle. This is especially important in light of the fact childhood obesity has tripled in the past three decades. One in three Americans, younger than 18 is overweight. The rapid rise in childhood obesity, if left unchecked, could cause this generation of youth to be the first in American history to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.
Our goal: Young children will develop healthy eating and physical activity habits that will last a lifetime.
This is done through our research-based, fun, hands-on curricula. Preschool
Placer and Nevada Counties' educators are joining our Let's Eat Healthy! program to help their students improve their eating habits and increase their daily physical activity.
High quality nutrition education curricula are beneficial in helping preschoolers to establish healthy eating and physical activity habits. Research continues to show the importance of establishing these habits early in life.
Youth FSNEP Preschool Photos Photo Album
School Age
By providing nutrition education on a continuing basis from kindergarten throughout the elementary school years the likelihood that children will develop healthy eating habits greatly increases.
Youth FSNEP School Age Photo Album Photo Album
Healthy Eating From Farm to Fork - Kindergarten Pilot
After School
The after school program is an ideal place for kids to start learning about and practicing good nutrition and an active lifestyle.
Youth FSNEP Afterschool Photo Album Photo Album
Exposing children to fresh produce, gardening, composting and the origin of foods helps them to make more nutritionally sound food choices. A pilot Farm to School project sponsored by the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) core grant program and the California Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP) was conducted in 2005-2006 at Rock Creek Elementary School in Auburn, CA. The curriculum, Healthy Eating From Farm to Fork was developed and used for the pilot.
COMING SOON!
 | Healthy Eating From Farm to Fork - First Grade Pilot As an extension of the kindergarten pilot, a first grade, Healthy Eating From Farm to Fork curriculum was developed. This curriculum was piloted in January 2007 in selected Placer County schools. COMING SOON! |
 | Trainings It is essential that FSNEP staff be kept up to date with current, age appropriate, research-based curricula. The Let's Eat Healthy! program staff shared their successes at the 2005 and 2006 FSNEP Statewide Conferences in Burlingame, CA to help achieve this goal. COMING SOON! |
Turn Off the TV...Tune into Family Fun
Television impacts children's play time, food choices, physical activity levels, and the amount of time families spend interacting with each other. In support of National TV-Turn Off Week, University of California Cooperative Extension programs in Placer and Nevada Counties conducted a Turn Off the TV...Tune Into Family Fun event!
Youth FSNEP Turn Off the TV...Photo Album Photo Album