Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Thursday six universities have been awarded nearly $3.8 million in funding by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for programs designed to help fight obesity.
The USDA’s program descriptions for the six grants include:
- --$746,827 to the University of Kentucky for the testing of the program “Smart Shopping.” According to the program description, Smart Shopping is “aimed at improving the shopping practices of adolescents with the ultimate goal of increasing fruit and vegetable intake.”
- --$797,995 was awarded to the University of New England, Biddeford, Maine for the “Supermarket Science: Multipronged Approaches to Increasing Fresh.....To Read More.....
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