Food and nutrition education program marks success

The Clemson Extension Service credits a program that was created in the 1960s with having a continuous rate of success in promoting good health among the country’s most vulnerable—low-resource families with children. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program teaches participants how to budget their food dollars to increase food security and diet quality. In South Carolina, the program puts an emphasis on parents and other adult caregivers who have primary responsibility to feed young children. Last year the program in South Carolina provided nutrition education to more than 5,200 youngsters and 934 family members.