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Family, Food & Finance
For more information on the following programs or food safety questions, please contact Debbie Fredricks at 360-577-3014 Ext 7.
Food$ense
The Food $ense Nutrition Education Program helps limited resource citizens of Cowlitz County learn how to make better nutritional food choices. Nutrition education can effectively help low-income families, especially the working poor, to achieve more nutritious diets and stretch food resources for more days every month. The goal is to help those on food stamps to reduce their dependency on food stamps and to learn to make more nutritious food choices.
Diabetes Education and Food Safety
Approximately, 400,000 Washingtonians (6%) have diabetes, one of the leading causes of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and lower limb amputations.
Living Well With Diabetes is a joint research project with Harvard University, Joslin Labs of Boston that offers 5 week program targeting people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. During the program people are taught about the 5 important tests everyone with diabetes should have, how to make healthy food choices at home and away, how to read labels, how to incorporate physical exercise into their daily lives and how to deal with stress.
Person In Charge
The Washington State Food Code required that all food facilities have a Person In Charge (PIC) that has extensive food safety knowledge beyond that required to get a food handlers card. WSU Extension partnered with the Health Department to design and deliver a four-hour food safety course that addresses the food rule changes. The training gives food handlers the food safety knowledge to meet the Person In Charge knowledge base, improve or maintain good health inspection scores and eliminate or reduce the number of food borne illnesses in the community. The course is presented monthly.
Outdoor Eating Food Safety Tips for You!
WSU Extension of Cowlitz County also offers a newsletter, Food, Fun& Facts, which is produced by Debbie Fredricks.
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