Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) helps people stay healthy, enjoy life, be active, and reduce health care costs. Many of today's health problems--obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer--can be reduced through good nutrition and a healthy life style. FCHS encourages today's busy families and individuals to learn more and make personal choices to improve health. FCHS combines research and practical advice to improve your health for a better tomorrow.

Key Initiative

Get Moving - Get Healthy New Jersey - encourages a healthy lifestyle, especially healthy eating and physical activity, through educational programs, a website, publications and targeted marketing campaigns.

Program Focus Areas

• Children's Health Summits: Fighting Back Against Childhood Obesity (134k PDF)
• Family Health History
• Financial Aspects of Health
• Food - From Farm to Fork
• Health Literacy
• Healthy Eating
• Nutrition Education Targeting Limited Resource Families
  • Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
  • NJ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (NJ SNAP-Ed)
• Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention
• Physical Activity
• School Wellness
  • From Our Farms: Teaching Kids About Food, Nutrition, and the Farm
  • School Wellness 2008 Annual Report (381k PDF)

Additional FCHS Program Areas

• Family Lifestyle
• Food Safety and Food Allergies
• Environmental Health

Department Publications and Resources

• Food, Nutrition, and Health Publications
• Seafood Safety: Assessing the Benefits and Risks
• Visions Newsletter

Other Resources

• Families, Food and Fitness (from eXtension)

Wellness Tip

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Selected Research

• Bitter Taste Perception
• Cranberry Health
• Gestational Diabetes
• New Jersey Obesity Group (NJOG)
• Phytomedics, Inc.
• WellGen Inc.