Eating Smart • Being Active is an evidence-based, direct-education healthy eating and active living curriculum with nine core lessons and three supplemental maternal and infant lessons. The curriculum incorporates the main messages of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025, Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans 2nd Edition, and MyPlate.
The Eating Smart • Being Active curriculum teaches participants about nutrition and physical activity through hands-on activities emphasizing the skills needed to make healthy choices. Core content areas are nutrition/diet quality, food safety, food resource management, physical activity and food security. Each core lesson includes a recipe preparation activity, which allows participants to develop cooking skills. The lessons in Eating Smart • Being Active are activity-based to ensure participants have opportunities to practice new skills, increasing the likelihood of positive behavior change. Participants are actively engaged in both physical activity and food preparation in each of the core lessons.
The program is offered to limited-resource older adults living in/or attending a faith-based organization, food pantry or congregate meal site, intergenerational center, senior center, or veteran's group in Clark County zip codes 89030, 89101, 89102, 89106, 89115. Please contact HealthyAging@info.edu for more information, to schedule a class or a series, or to invite us to a tabling event.
