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Easily Digestible: Addressing Food Literacy With Short Educational Videos, Kalle J. Fjeld
Easily Digestible: Addressing Food Literacy With Short Educational Videos, Kalle J. Fjeld
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Food literacy is the knowledge and skills needed to select and prepare food as well as determine food intake. These skills are necessary for a healthy diet, which is a major contributing factor to chronic disease prevention and management. People with diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease can have great benefit from improving diet quality through increasing at-home food preparation and consumption of fruits and vegetables. In partnership with a Food Farmacy pilot program at Hudson Headwaters Health Network in Glens Falls, NY this project sought to use web-based food literacy education for a population of 40 patients with …
Raising Awareness About The Vermont Donor Milk Center, Rosie Friedman, Emi Eakin
Raising Awareness About The Vermont Donor Milk Center, Rosie Friedman, Emi Eakin
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
The Vermont Donor Milk Center (VDMC) is an emerging community resource that provides donated, pasteurized breast milk to new parents for their infants. Upon questioning, we identified that many providers did not know about the VDMC or how to prescribe milk. In addition, VDMC expressed that they have not been able to complete the community outreach they had initially hoped for. We chose to dedicate our project to disseminating information about VDMC to perinatal care providers in Vermont.