Creaciones en la Cocina: A Culturally Adapted Nutrition Education Curriculum for Spanish-Speaking Latinos

As the Latino population in Utah continues to grow steadily, it lags behind several state health measures and indicators such as poverty, diabetes, cholesterol, physical activity, overweight/obesity and poor physical health.1 To address these health concerns, the Utah Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) staff made concerted efforts to reach out to the Latino community by translating handouts into Spanish and hiring bilingual and/or ethnically matched educators who are trained using existing nutrition education curricula written in English.
Source: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior - Category: Nutrition Authors: Tags: GEM No. XXX Source Type: research