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. Information about the management and educational programming of WNEP is available on a web site that is designed for use by WNEP colleagues.
UWEX-Cooperative Extension Publications
UW-Extension publications on food/nutrition topics
Wisconsin Statewide Poverty and Food Insecurity Report (from the Applied Population Laboratory)
Other Resources
These links take you to websites that are not part of the UW-Extension website.
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