Category: Health

Mindful Eating: How to Cultivate Awareness and Enjoyment in Every Bite

Feb 13, 2025 | Food, Food Systems, Health, Nutrition

This publication addresses the concept of mindful eating and its impact on maintaining a healthy diet. By focusing on awareness during meals, mindful eating encourages better food choices, portion...

Beyond Treatment: Understanding the Multifaceted Barriers to Patient Participation in Health Interventions

Feb 13, 2025 | Food Systems, Food Systems and Safety, Health, Nutrition

Health interventions are policies, initiatives, or programs that can change perspectives and behaviors to improve overall health.1 This publication includes information about (1) impacts of and...

Using Education to Reduce Instances of Foodborne Illness

Mar 25, 2024 | Food Systems, Food Systems and Safety, Health, Nutrition

Foodborne illness is caused by eating foods and beverages contaminated with various pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and parasites. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that roughly 48...

Considerations When Selecting a Delivery Method for Educational Course Design

Feb 13, 2024 | Health, Nutrition

As part of course design, instructors consider their learners’ needs to develop goals and objectives for course content. With the rising interest in non-traditional delivery methods for course...

MyPlate: A Guide to Healthier Eating

Feb 1, 2024 | Health, Nutrition, Youth

Maintaining a healthy diet can be challenging in today’s fast-paced world. Diet quality can have an important impact on the ability to perform everyday activities and overall health. In an effort to...

Alleviating Food Insecurity Using Nutrition Education Programs

Jan 23, 2024 | Food, Food Systems, Health, Nutrition

In this publication, we will address the critical issue of food insecurity through the lens of nutrition education programs. We will explore how these programs play a pivotal role in providing...

Breeding Peanut for Reduced Allergen Content

Dec 13, 2023 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Health, Peanut

This publication aims to familiarize readers with peanut allergy, the allergic reaction that occurs upon exposure to peanut proteins in susceptible individuals, current therapies, and an affordable...

Facilitating Healthcare for Veterans Residing in Rural South Carolina and Florida: What is Community Care?

Nov 29, 2023 | Health

There are many programs currently offered to military youth and families. However, US military Veteran participation in Cooperative Extension programs has not been well documented across all...

Hanging Tags and Consumer Behavior

Feb 2, 2023 | Food, Food Systems, Food Systems and Safety, Health

Consumers only see about 150 of the more than 10,000 products on the average grocery store’s shelves. Consumers engage with each product they see for seven seconds or less—with many products...

The Influence of Packaging on the Perception of Quick-Service Sandwiches

Jul 26, 2022 | Food, Food Systems, Food Systems and Safety, Health

The fast food restaurant industry in the United States currently includes more than 200,000 restaurant locations with combined annual revenue of approximately $191 billion.1 These quick-service...

4-H Healthy Movers Curriculum

Feb 17, 2022 | 4-H Curricula, Curricula, Health, Nutrition, Youth

The Healthy Movers curriculum is designed for use in school-based and 4-H club settings with youth in grades 3-7. Special attention has been given to making these activities budget-friendly, easily...

Elderberry Syrup: Food Safety and Regulation Requirements for Making and Selling

Nov 1, 2021 | Agribusiness, Food, Food Systems, Food Systems and Safety, Health

Food producers in South Carolina are regulated to ensure they meet the food safety standards for protecting public health. The regulation requirements for elderberry syrup, a recent fast-growing...

Implementation of a Cooperative Extension Food Distribution Action Plan During Times of Crisis

Aug 27, 2021 | Food, Food Systems, Food Systems and Safety, Health, Nutrition

Cooperative Extension Service Agents can utilize a Food Distribution Action Plan to facilitate food and supply distributions in the aftermath of hurricanes, flooding, and other disasters that may...

Reaching At-Risk Communities Through Extension-Clinical Partnerships

Jan 4, 2021 | Health, Nutrition

The burden of diabetes impacts minority, low-resource, and at-risk or distressed populations disproportionately. The Health Extension for Diabetes program, a community-based diabetes self-management...

Changing From Within: How Professional Development Can Transform Your Leadership Style

Nov 20, 2020 | Food Systems and Safety, Health, Uncategorized

Leadership is both an active research area and an act of practical skill wherein individuals continuously enhance their knowledge within unlearned areas, add value to the work that they do, and...