MSUE Health and Nutrition Institute

Dawn Contreras, director

Work groups

• Nutrition and Physical Activity• Disease Prevention and Management• Food Safety• Social-Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Focus Area 1: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Levels

• 71.6 percent of men and 61.2 of women in the U.S. are identified as overweight or obese

• Approximately 33.6% of children under age 18 years are overweight or obese and 24.4% of children aged 2 to 8 years are overweight – nearly triple the rate during the early 1970s.

• Improved nutrition and physical activity are linked to reductions overweight and obesity.

Focus Area 1: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Levels• Targeted Healthy Weight Efforts Last Year

• (Saginaw and Genesee County)

• Statistically significant changes• Positive eating behaviors (fruit/vegetable/whole grain,

caloric behavior consumption• Physical activity• Health Bio-metrics

• Weight• Body Mass Index• Waist Circumference

Focus Area 1: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Levels2012 Indicators and Outcomes

Five Targeted Outcomes•Dietary Quality•Physical Activity•Caloric Balance•Food Safety

•Food Resource Management

Focus Area 1: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Levels• Core Activities – Targeted Statewide Reach –

50,000 Adults and Youth• Adult Education using Eating Right is Basic• Youth Education using Show Me Nutrition• Other research-based pilot or grant funded programs ,

i.e. BFI (WIC), Healthy Babies (CON), (S)Partners (DOR), Mothers in Motion (CON), Pyramids Between the Pages (CON, HDFS, UM), (BCBS (OrganWise Guys), Gleaners (Cooking Matters)

Area 2: Disease Prevention and Management• Chronic diseases are the most prevalent, costly

and preventable of all health problems.• A disease of growing concern is diabetes• More than 23 million Americans currently have

diabetes and an estimated 54 million adults have pre-diabetes.

• In Michigan 700,000 adults have diabetes and an estimated two million MI adults are pre-diabetic

Area 2: Disease Prevention and Management• Core Activities:

• Diabetes Prevention Program• Dining with Diabetes programming• A 6-part series on “Personal Action Toward Health”

(PATH) training (offered face to face and online)

• Key Outcomes:• Behavioral changes related to food consumption,

physical activity, self-management behaviors, self-efficacy, health status, and health care utilization

Focus Area 3: Food Safety

• Overall health is impacted by the safety of the food supply

• Each year millions of illnesses in this country can be traced to food-borne bacteria• Recent Example: Listeria in Cantaloupe

• Education needs to prevent contamination all along the chain from production and processing to preparation and preservation.

Focus Area 3: Food Safety

• Activities:• Intensive training related to:

• Food Safety• Food Preservation

• Core curricula:• ServSafe• Cottage Food Law• Cooking for Crowds• Agri Food Safety Education – GAP• Food Preservation

Focus Area 4: Social-Emotional Health and Wellbeing

• Targeted 2012 Issue: Bullying Prevention• 30% of US youth are involved in bullying

(either victim or bully)• 42% of 4th to 6th graders say they’ve

been cyber bullied• 60% of bullies in grades 6-8 are

convicted of criminal charges by age 24.

Focus Area 4: Social-Emotional Health• MSU Extension has an important role to play in

addressing issues of adolescent aggression and violence.

• Key Activities – • Deliver aggression and violence prevention evidenced-

based programs directly targeted to adolescents and those who care for them.

• Develop and pilot the Be SAFE (Safe, Affirming and Fair Environments) research-based bullying prevention and education program for adolescents ages 11-14, the adults who work with them, and their parents/caregivers:

Working across groups

• Healthy Weight for all Michigan populations• Food Safety• Social-emotional health for people whose health

is being threatened and those caring for them.