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Cooking and nutrition programming engages Fairfax and Arlington seniors
Kathryn Strong, family and consumer sciences Extension agent for Fairfax County, believes in the value of independent and health-conscious senior residents. To aid the growing population of seniors in...
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Water testing program helps get the lead out
Virginia Tech’s recent discovery of abnormally high amounts of lead in the Flint, Michigan, water system has made safe drinking water a hot topic. But while the water in Flint came from a municipal...
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Symposium addresses growing crisis of food insecurity in Richmond
In the City of Richmond, Virginia, 40,020 residents are food insecure and lack access to enough food for an active healthy lifestyle — roughly 20 percent of the total city population. In July 2011,...
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‘Proactive’ programming in Loudoun County tackles foodborne illness from the...
Each year in the U.S., there are approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths linked to foodborne illness. Twenty foodborne illness outbreaks were reported in 2013 in...
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Prince William County residents learn about living healthy with diabetes
Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in Virginia. In Prince William County, an estimated 50,000 people are living with the incurable and expensive disease. Diabetes can be hard to manage for...
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Tracking and stopping human and agricultural viruses
Viruses are molecular thieves that take from their hosts under the cloak of darkness. But now a Virginia Tech scientist has found a way to not only track viral hijackers, but also to potentially stop...
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Extension is ahead of the curve on new food safety rules
Adrianna Vargo, director of grower services at Charlottesville’s Local Food Hub, has collaborated with Virginia Cooperative Extension to get critical information to growers regarding the Food and Drug...
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Virginia Cooperative Extension employees increase colorectal cancer screening...
Colorectal cancer is the third-most commonly diagnosed and third-most fatal cancer in men and in women in the United States and Virginia. New screening methods have allowed for both the early detection...
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Wellness Display at Portsmouth City Hall Creates Increased Health Awareness...
VCE-City of Portsmouth’s National Nutrition Month Nutrition and Wellness Display in Portsmouth’s City Hall In 2015, the Virginia County Health Rankings (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), which measures...
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Children fighting cancer get ray of hope through 4-H, Camp Fantastic partnership
Camp Fantastic, which is run by the nonprofit Special Love, allows kids to be kids, to forget for a time that they are battling cancer. Abby Snider was 15 years old when she had a long string of...
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