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Creating Balance with Food & Fitness Information & Registration

 

Creating balance

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Feb 7 - March 20, 2012

Registration is now closed. Watch for information about the next program.

Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a health and wellness program that is interactive, convenient, flexible, fresh, has lots of variety, is professional, and can be a little or a lot depending on what you want. It consists of a seven-week series of interactive sessions that focus on helping you:

  • Know your numbers
  • Develop goals to improve or maintain health
  • Balance calories to manage weight
  • Know which foods to increase and which to reduce
  • Increase your physical activity level

How to participate:computer with woman balancing apple and cupcake

  • Register on-line here. (Credit card needed.)
  • Or register by mail: Download brochure here, complete form and mail with payment
  • Registration fee: $20 (includes wellness kit, postage and class fees)
  • Deadline: Jan. 24, 2012 (late fee after that date)
  • Live sessions will be webcast Tuesdays from noon – 1 pm (Central Time). Choose how you want to participate:
    • At your own computer. You will need an internet connection and web browser. Live sessions will be webcast via Adobe Connect platform.
    • Gather with others at a common site of your choosing with internet access
    • At the designated Extension on site locations listed below, along with a local group
    • Or participate when it works for you, with others or by yourself, by accessing the archived sessions via the eXtension moodle campus. You'll receive instructions after you register.

What we'll cover:

  • USDA’s MyPlate / MyPyramid Guidelines
  • Being a Healthy Role Model
  • Getting the Most out of Nutrition Facts
  • How do Portion Sizes measure up?
  • Meal Planning & Dining Out
  • Fad Diets
  • Snacks & Beverages
  • Foods to reduce: Fats, Sugars & Sodium
  • Foods to increase: Potassium, Calcium, Vitamin D, & Fiber
  • Recipe Modification

What people are saying about previous UNL Extension classes :

  • “This wellness program by UNL Extension was educational, engaging and very affordable. It was a great foundation for life-long changes.”
  • “A great part of this program was the option to attend class or participate on your own time. It covered a variety of areas needed to complete a healthy body.”
  • “The information was very useful and when the presenters shared their personal ideas, goals and struggles with us, it was great. It just wasn't our little group with our goals and struggles; it was others across the state.”

Local sites to participate:

 

Northeast Nebraska:

  • Burt County Courthouse, 111 North 13th St., Suite 6, Tekamah. Contact: Mary Loftis, 402-374-2929; mloftis2@unl.edu
  • Valley County Extension Office, Ord. Contact: Cheryl Tickner, 308-754-5422; ctickner1@unl.edu
  • Madison County Extension Office, Norfolk. Contact: Lee Sherry, 402-370-4040; lsherry2@unl.edu
  • Cedar County Extension Office, Annex Meeting Room, Hartington. Contact: Jackie Steffen, 402-254-6821; jsteffen2@unl.edu
  • Dakota County YMCA, 601 Riverview Drive, South Sioux City. Contact: Carol Larvick, 402-987-2140; clarvick1@unl.edu
  • Dixon County, Concord. Contact: Sandy Preston, 402-584-2234; spreston2@unl.edu
  • Pierce County, Pierce. Contact: Ann Fenton, 402-329-4821; afenton1@unl.edu
  • Wayne County: Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department, 215 N. Pearl St., Wayne. Contact: Amy Topp, 402-375-3310; atopp2@unl.edu
  • Garfield County, Sandstone Grill, 416 Grand Ave, Burwell. Contact: Janet Hanna. 308-346-4200; jhanna1@unl.edu
  • Cuming County Extension Office, West Point. Contact: Deb Schroeder, 402-372-6006; dschroeder1@unl.edu

Southeast Nebraska

  • Washington County. Contact: Becky Versch, 402-426-9455; rversch1@unl.edu
  • Saline County Extension Office, 306 W. Third, P.O. Box 978, Wilber. Contact: Leanne Manning, 402-821-2151; lmanning1@unl.edu.
  • Jefferson County, Jefferson Community Health Center, 2200 H Street, Fairbury. Contact: Lisa Edeal or Kathy Helmink, 402-729-3351
  • Gage County, Beatrice. Contact: Kayla Colgrove, 402-223-1384; kcolgrove2@unl.edu
  • Johnson County, Driver's testing room at the courthouse (basement), Tecumseh. Contact: Jessica G. Jones, 402-335-3669; jjones12@unlnotes.unl.edu
  • York County Extension Office, York. Contact: Eileen Krumbach, 402-362-5508; ekrumbach1@unl.edu
  • Nebraska City, Kimmel Education and Research Center. Contact: Deb Heidzig, 402-873-3166; dheidzig5@unl.edu
  • Fillmore County Extension Office, Geneva. Contact: Brandy VanDeWalle, 402-759-3712; bvandewalle2@unl.edu
  • Richardson County, Falls City. Contact: Lindsay Chichester at lchichester2@unl.edu or Linda Santo at lsanto@cmcfc.org
  • Clay County, Clay Center. Contact: Cindy Strasheim, 402-762-3644; cstrasheim1@unl.edu

Central Nebraska:

  • Hall County Extension Office, Grand Island. Contact: Cami Wells, 308-385-5088; cwells2@unl.edu
  • Custer County, Melham Memorial Medical Center, Broken Bow. Contact: Jessye Goertz, 308-872-6831; jgoertz1@unl.edu
  • Adams County Extension Office, Hastings. Contact: Kayte Tranel, 402-461-7209; ktranel2@unl.edu
  • Dawson County Extension office, 1002 Plum Creek Parkway, Lexington. Contact: Andrea Nisley, 308-324-5501; anisley1@unl.edu
  • Keith or Perkins County. Contact: Deb Kuenning, 308-284-6051; dkuenning2@unl.edu
  • Merrick County, Central City Library, 1604 15th Ave. Contact: Jeanette Friesen, UNL Extension, Hamilton and merrick Counties, 308-946-3843. jfriesen@unl.edu
  • Red Willow County, Extension Office Meeting Room, 1400 West 5th St., McCook. Contact: Mary K. Warner, Extension Educator, 308-345-3390 or 877-674-6947; mwarner1@unl.edu
  • Grand Island: Central District Health Department, 1137 S. Lociust St. Contact: Amy Wieczorek, 308-385-5175, ext. 170.

Panhandle and Sandhills:

  • ARCHIVED: Box Butte Extension Office, Alliance. Monday evenings Feb. 13- March 19 or 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Contact: Jeanne Murray, 308-762-5616; JMURRAY1@unl.edu
  • ARCHIVED: Scotts Bluff County, Scottsbluff. Contact: Martha Stricker at strickm@rwmc.net or Terri Allen at tawellness@hotmail.com
  • Cherry County, Extension Office, 365 N. Main, Suite 3. Contact: Jody Dexter, 402-376-1850 or 800-657-2188; jdexter3@unl.edu
  • ARCHIVED: Mullen, time and location TBA. Contact: Sue Pearman, 800-657-2113.

 

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