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Invest in Yourself During Health Literacy Month

Courtney Thompson
 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Health People 2030 defines health literacy as: the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

Nutrition.gov and the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) make it easy to find nutrition information to empower you to make well-informed decisions regarding your health. Find resources for every level of health literacy on the following topics:

  • Find answers to your nutrition questions on Nutrition.gov’s Expert Questions and Answers page.
  • Learn to identify nutrition misinformation and fraudulent health claims with Nutrition.gov’s new Nutrition Misinformation & Fraud page.
  • Discover how nutrition influences general health and health conditions on FNIC’s Diet and Health page.
  • Plan your weekly menu that fits your health needs with Nutrition.gov Recipes page.

Still need help understanding your nutrition and health? Nutrition.gov and FNIC staff are experienced Registered Dietitians who work at USDA's National Agricultural Library as Nutrition Information Specialists. They are available to answer food and nutrition questions.  Ask the nutrition experts today on the National Agricultural Library Ask A Question page.

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This technology is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation. For more information, please visit extension.org. You can view the terms of useat extension.org/terms.

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