The Challenges

• More than 70% of adults in Androscoggin County eat fewer than five servings of fruits and vegetables a day¹.
• 80% of youth in Maine eat fewer than five servings a day of fruits and vegetables and drink fewer than three glasses of milk a day².
• 62% of adults in Androscoggin County are overweight or obese³.
• 13% of Maine youth in grades 9-12 are overweight. In the U.S. , 13.9% of children ages 2-5 are overweight, 18.8% of children ages 6-11 are overweight and 17.4% of children ages 12-19 are overweight⁴.

How Healthy Androscoggin is Meeting the Challenge

• The Nutrition Resource Guide provides a list of affordable food access programs, state and local nutrition resources, nutrition counselors, weight management groups and diabetes education organizations.
• Healthy Androscoggin partners with other organizations to promote healthy eating:
• Help Lots to Gardens and the farmers' markets with publicity and promotion;
• Assist St. Mary's with the Nutrition Resource Center ;
• Partnered with the Maine Nutrition Network to provide United Somali Women of Maine with informational materials through a grant Healthy Androscoggin received in 2006
• Participates in the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative .
• Healthy Androscoggin provides guest speakers to discuss healthy eating.