Page 9 - Open Hand Atlanta Annual Report - 2017

WE COOK. WE DELIVER.
WE TEACH. WE CARE.

WE TEACH.

NUTRITION EDUCATION PROGRAMS MNT is provided exclusively by Open Hand
Registered Dietitian Nutritionists.
Open Hand’s evidence-based nutrition education
programs are designed to empower our clients Cooking Matters™ classes
to take control of their health by adopting eating This celebrated 6-week, evidence-based nutrition
behaviors appropriate to their medical condition. and cooking curriculum helps facilitate healthy
Nutrition education is offered to at-risk individuals eating behaviors, promote nutrition knowledge,
from all walks of life — from low-income youth and and decrease food insecurity for low-income
families, retired veterans and cancer survivors, to individuals and families all across the state of
vulnerable seniors in a variety of settings. Georgia.

Eat well—live well curriculum Open Hand Cooking Matters (OHCM) serves
Open Hand Registered Dietitian Nutritionists SNAP/WIC-eligible individuals who are at risk of
take a hands-on approach to nutrition education, hunger and more susceptible to obesity and other
with topics ranging from portion control, healthy behavior-based risk factors and diseases.

eating habits and hands-on food prep to physical Host sites include organizations whose primary
activity, gardening, goal-setting, and disease self- mission includes the provision of services to
management. low-income Georgians: local food banks, housing
Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) authorities, food pantries, WIC clinics, Head Start,
Senior Centers, safety net clinics, faith-based
Medical Nutrition Therapy is a more focused organizations, homeless shelters, transitional
nutrition intervention involving one–on–one housing communities, and other community-based
diagnostic therapy and counseling services organizations.
prescribed by a medical or dietetic professional
for the purpose of disease management.

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