Nutrition Resources
UC Davis Department of Nutrition
The following resources are produced by Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr and her research staff.
Nutrition & Health Info Sheets - Up-to-date information about nutrition, health, and food. In three formats:
For Nutrition and Health Professionals - Do not distribute the sheets for health professionals to participants.
For Participants
Nutrition Bites - Fact sheets with "bite-sized" information about a topic in nutrition.
UC Food Safety - Consumer Advice
External Resources
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - EatRight.org
National Nutrition Programs
EFNEP National Website from NIFA/USDA
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is designed to assist audiences with limited resources to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and changed behavior necessary for nutritionally sound diets. Our program also helps our audience contribute to their personal development and improvement of total family diet as well as nutritional well-being.
Nutrition Assistance Programs
USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthy diet, and nutrition education. Child Nutrition Programs
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP - formerly Known as FSNE)
A program of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. SNAP provides food assistance and aims to increase nutrition for the health and well being of low-income individuals and their families.
WIC: Women, Infants and Children
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, better known as the WIC Program, serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating and referrals to health care.