Overall These tools and resources are provided to help you, families and communities better understand the important roles that healthy eating, active living and living a smoke-free lifestyle play in leading a healthy lifestyle. Healthy Eating The initiative will help to increase community knowledge of the importance of healthy eating and to share healthy food tips resources such as nutrition facts, fresh food recipes and upcoming cooking demonstration events at Farmer Markets. Please check-out the Healthy Eating and Active Living Resource Guide.

Active Living According to The CDC Guide to Strategies for Increasing Physical Activity in the Community (2010), an effective strategy to increase physical fitness is to “create or enhance access to places for physical activity combined with informational outreach”. The intention is to help advertise FREE program resources for physical activities, particularly those which make exercise easy and fun. Downloadable Documents Bitter Melon Recipe Book Bitter Melon has many wonderful health benefits. Download and use this Bitter Melon Recipe Book to learn more about the many nutritional facts and health benefits of Bitter Melon. Also included are easy to follow recipes using fresh Bitter Melon! Pumpkin Recipe Book There is more to Pumpkin than just pie!

Download and use this Pumpkin Recipe Book to learn more about the many nutritional facts and health benefits of Pumpkin. Also included are easy to follow recipes using fresh pumpkin! Tobacco

Research has shown that smoking during pregnancy causes health problems for both mothers and babies, such as pregnancy complications, premature birth, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and infant death (CDC, 2002) CDC also reports that children exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates of espiratory symptoms and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). However many providers may not screen for risk and refer to support resources to address same. Included here are: tobacco prevention information, treatment and smoking cessation resources, and provider resources.