Food & Health
Whether young or old, male or female, tall or short, everyone needs to eat. Food is the cornerstone for survival. We also know that what and how much you eat and drink affects your health. Everyone can afford to eat better, and everyone needs to be active, especially with skyrocketing healthcare costs. Food, nutrition, and health are important for each and every person:
- Almost one in five children is considered overweight.
- Foodborne illnesses account for 76 million illnesses each year.
- Seven of every 10 Americans die from preventable chronic diseases like heart disease.
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Programs
- Stop Diabetes Now – Know Your Risk
- Balanced Living with Diabetes
- Understanding Cancer / Cancer Prevention
- Resources for Good Health
- Webinars
- Community Food Security & Food Systems
- Enology & Fermentation Science
- Family Nutrition Program
- Food as a Business
- Food Safety
- Healthy Meetings Pledge
- Home Food Preservation
- Home Water Quality
- Master Food Volunteer Program
- Nutrition & Wellness
- Physical Activity
- ServSafe® Training
Virginia Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Programs offer education on a wide variety of topics to help you, your children, your schools, and your communities eat better, move more, and save money. We put research-based information to work.
A sample of programs includes:
- Cooking on a budget with Suppers Made Simple and the Family Nutrition Program
- Childhood obesity prevention with Healthy Weights for Healthy Kids and Food Friends and Mighty Moves™
- Safe food preparation and handling training to prevent foodborne illness, including ServSafe® for food service workers at restaurants and institutions and Cooking for Crowds™ for folks preparing food for large groups
- Buying and preparing local and seasonal food
- Nutrition for people with diabetes, including Dining with Diabetes™
- Weight management
- Food preservation
Get the Facts webinar series
Because Virginia Tech/Virginia Cooperative Extension changed video providers, some of the links below may not work. Please contact Dr. Young Ju at yhju@vt.edu to request access to the webinar.
- Balloon flower root and lung cancer
- 2020 Get the facts webinar series: Vitamin A and Lung cancer
- Lung Cancer
- A Controversial Recommendation on Red Meat and Processed Meat Intake
- Glutamine and Colorectal Cancer
- Sea Cucumbers and Colorectal Cancer
- Fiber and Colorectal Cancer
- Kefir and Colorectal Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- Reishi Mushroom and Breast Cancer
- Ginseng and Breast Cancer
- L-Carnitine and Breast Cancer
- Vitamin D and Breast Cancer
- Soy, Soy Isoflavones, and Breast Cancer
- Cruciferous Vegetables and Breast Cancer
- Green Tea and Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- New Guidelines for High Blood Pressure
- Seaweeds and Diabetes
- Honey and Diabetes
- Chromium and Type 2 Diabetes
- Cinnamon and Diabetes
- To Soy or Not to Soy
- Gluten-free
- Low Fat, Reduced Fat, and No Fat
- Food Allergy
- Sugar-free, Reduced/Less sugar, or No Added Sugar: What Does It Mean?
- Genetically Modified Foods
- Plant-based Diets
- Dietary Nitrate and Nitrite on Heart Disease
- Flaxseed/Flaxseed Oil and Heart Disease
- Coenzyme Q10 and Heart Disease
- Hawthorn and Heart Disease
- Arjuna and Heart Disease
- Cocoa and Heart Disease
- Plant Sterols and Cholesterol
- Coconut Oil and Heart Disease
- Diabetes
- Bitter Melon and Diabetes
- White Mulberry and Diabetes
Featured Publications
Contact
For questions regarding food and health tips, advice, and research, please contact your county's unit office or browse through the Food & Health topics for specific contact information.