Your Body - Your Food

The Your Body – Your Food program was funded by a $5,000 grant received from the New England Dairy Council to conduct an after-school program aimed at youth in a middle school to increase healthy eating and healthy activity.

The concept and practice of 3-A-Day dairy selections, 5-A-Day fruit and vegetable selections and the Power of Choice curriculum, helped empower kids to eat healthfully by providing them with the tools and strategies to focus on moderation, insight into how high sugar, high fat food impacts how you feel and how your body develops. Two high school seniors were utilized to act as peer mentors to the 7th and 8th grade students. They acted as a bridge between the middle school and the high school communities, performed as local area experts on matters of health, served as role models and were able to reinforce and support students.