Nutrition Education—penn State Extension

improving the lives of children families and individuals of all ages has been a focus of Penn State Extension for more than 90 years in the area of health and nutrition Extension is committed to providing high-quality information and programs designed to facilitate positive behavior changes to help build caring safe and healthy communities Extension has a very long history of providing interest and education programs we have since almost the beginning of Extension been able to help the public understand the value of food and nutrition in their diet we believe that through prevention and good nutrition and physical activity people to be much healthier and be able to live longer more successful and happy lives it's important to engage in the nutrition education programs for our population because we're preventing disease illness we are reducing the burden of health care to the individual their family and local community Extension programs are making a diffence in the lives of Pennsylvanians