EFNEP Saves Money
For every $1 invested in EFNEP, up to $10 is saved in health care costs. The benefits of EFNEP were characterized as dollars estimated to be saved on health care costs by the potential delay/avoidance of chronic diseases and conditions as a result of EFNEP participants adopting optimal food, nutrition and lifestyle behaviors such as increasing fruit and vegetable intake, decreasing salt intake, improving food safety and being more active.
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EFNEP Fights Obesity
Among the best tools yet developed to fight obesity is EFNEP funded by the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service and managed by America’s land-grant universities.
EFNEP combats obesity by helping low-income individuals gain the skills and motivation they need to improve their diets and be more physically active.
Studies show that people who run out of food or miss meals because they cannot afford them are among the most obese.
EFNEP reaches these “high-risk” individuals through tried and true
lessons and activities taught in peer-to-peer fashion by paraprofessionals
and volunteers recruited from their neighborhoods.
Did You Know?
EFNEP makes a difference. . Behavioral changes in participants translate into significant improvements
in daily living skills. For example:
84% of program graduates improved in one or more food resource management practices (i.e. plans meals,
compares prices, does not run out of food or uses grocery lists);. More...