From the Rutgers-SEBS Comminications Office:
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently announced an investment of more than $5 million to support projects that impact diet, nutrition and chronic disease prevention. The Rutgers project, “People, Plants, and The Planet: A Multi-Method Study to Develop, Implement & Evaluate a Food & Climate Change Intervention to Empower Adolescents to Make Healthy & Sustainable Plant-Based Food Choices,” was awarded $298,290.
Rutgers principal investigator (PI) Sara Elnakib, Department of Family and Community Health Sciences educator and department head, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Passaic County; and co-PIs Ethan Schoolman, assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology; and Shauna Downs, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Policy, and Investigator Peggy Policastro, director-NJHKI Culinary Literacy and Nutrition and Rutgers Dining, Nutrition Services will develop and pilot test a food, human health and climate health intervention to reduce the prevalence of obesity and associated chronic diseases among adolescents.