Food, Nutrition and Health

Promoting healthy, well-nourished families as they learn to manage food dollars, plan nutritious meals, and purchase, prepare, and serve food that is safe to eat.

• Biotechnology
• Biotechnology Outreach
  The mission of the program is to provide information, insight and analysis of technical and social issues of biotechnology to people in Wisconsin.
• Biotechnology Teaching Tools
  Resources for extension educators include PowerPoint slide sets, posters, handouts and conferences.
• eXtension – Science for Youth
• USDA Biotechnology
• Food Safety
• Food Safety and Health
  Information on food safety and nutrition to help keep your family healthy.
• Food Safety in Your Home
  UW-Madison’s, Department of Food Science
• Health
• Health Reform
• Healthy Families & Communities
• StrongWomen™ Wisconsin
• Hunger and Food Security in Wisconsin
• Poverty Awareness for Community Engagement (PACE)
• Wisconsin Food Security Project
• Nutrition Education
• Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program (WNEP)
  The Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program provides nutrition, food budgeting, and food safety education programs to limited income families, children and seniors. WNEP offers educational programs in most Wisconsin counties. If you would like to learn more about WNEP in your county go to our county WNEP directory.
• UWEX-Cooperative Extension Publications
  UW-Extension publications on food/nutrition topics
• Wisconsin School Breakfast
• Wisconsin Impact Reports for Food, Nutrition and Health
• Wisconsin Statewide Poverty and Food Insecurity Report  (from the Applied Population Laboratory)
• Other resources
• Nutrition.Gov
  Nutrition.gov provides easy access to information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals.
• Choose My Plate
  USDA’s new Choose My Plate food guidance system provides many options to help Americans make healthy food choices and to be active every day.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  Home page for the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, the agency that publishes the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and related materials such as the Healthy Eating Index, Nutrition Insights reports, and the Thrifty Food Plan.
• USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Nutrition Education
  FNS provides children and adults of all ages with nutrition education materials on how to improve their diets and their lives.
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
  The world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. Formerly the American Dietetic Association.
• CDC Nutrition and Physical Activity Topic Index
  Nutrition and physical activity information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• eXtension – Families, Food and Fitness
  Your portal to objective, research-based and credible information you can use every day to improve your life. Brought to you by experts from the nation’s largest and oldest network of universities.