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Nutrition, Health and Food Safety


      • Nutritious Foods

      • Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

      • Food Safety

Small Steps to Health and Wealth

“Small Steps to Health and Wealth” is a program designed to motivate participants to improve both their health and their finances.  Plans are to repeat the program during Thursday noon hours from January 28, 2010 to March 25, 2010 as a live web program.   Recordings of the 2009 webcasts are now available from the web site Smallsteps.unl.edu.  Look for recorded sessions.  Lesson materials can be downloaded from the same site.  Individual lessons encourage participants to set health and/or wealth goals and take action to achieve their goals by identifying small progress steps.

The program consists of two main sections: a discussion of similarities between health and personal finance issues and suggested behavior change strategies that can be applied to either area of life. The impact of health on finances and finances on health is also explored. The program concludes with a discussion of seven key health and wealth success factors: attitude, automation, awareness/knowledge, control, environment, goals, and time. Participants are encouraged to share their successes.

Small Steps to Health and Wealth is part of a national program being adopted across the United States. Individuals are encouraged to register their Health and Wealth Goals as they participate in the program. You can also call a University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Office near you or email Sandy Preston at spreston2@unl.edu.  
 

 

UNL Extension Resources

Nebraskans wanting to adopt healthful practices and attitudes that affect both mind and body can find help from UNL Extension programs. We help you learn how to manage food resources and handle food safely. We also help you know how proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle can improve your quality of life.

Nutritious Foods

Families today are constantly on the go — making our use of time for cooking and eating healthy meals a challenge. If you are looking for resources to help you meet these everyday challenges check out these extension pages.

Food Safety

Food safety is high priority for Nebraskans.

Use these educational resources to help you “know how” to protect yourself, your family, and those served by the food industry.

Information and resources for consumer and professional food safety.

Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

Control Diabetes For Life - 2009
Diabetes is a serious problem ... but research shows that if you keep your blood sugar close to normal you can reduce your chances of serious health problems. Take charge of what you eat. Get regular physical activity. Test your blood sugar. Take your medication as prescribed. Use these archived video presentations to help you learn as much as you can about diabetes.

Diabetes is a growing concern for children in the United States. "Diabetes and Me" is a presentation by Robert Kreikemeier of West Point, Nebraska when he was a college sophomore at Kansas State University. He talks openly about his life with Juvenile Diabetes to an audience of young people and their parents.

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage and Education
Seniors and their family members need reliable, unbiased information on available Medicare Prescription Drug plans. Since 2004, UNL Extension and the Nebraska Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) have collaborated to provide that information on this website.

METH Educational Resources
One of rural America's and Nebraska's greatest challenges is the drug epidemic, especially methamphetamine. Individuals and communities need simple strategies to help combat this growing problem. Check out this UNL Extension site for parent and community resources.