Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Take 5 for Diabetes Education Program is a series of 5 class meetings designed for individuals with Type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes or those who have a family history of diabetes. To learn more, click here.
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s
Division of Education recently began partnering with the LSU Agricultural
Center and its division of education, the Louisiana Cooperative Extension
Service.
The Extension Service plays a unique role in both rural
and urban parishes in Louisiana. It is an agency devoted to providing
research-based outreach education. The objective of the partnership
is to provide an effective, efficient means of disseminating information
and advice to the public, through parish extension agents. The partnership
focuses on all aspects of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s
nutrition research findings by ensuring that the results of research
are translated into practical recommendations that are made available
immediately to the community.
Dr. Heli Roy from the LSU Ag Center
was appointed to the position of Outreach Coordinator and charged
with providing culture-specific research information to Extension
agents across Louisiana. The collaboration has resulted in the publication
of a series of fact sheets entitled “Pennington Nutrition Series” that
are made available to extension agents across Louisiana to be used
for nutrition education and outreach.
Visit the LSU Ag Center's homepage here.
Visit nutrition series here.
6400 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
ph: (225) 763-2500
