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Families

South Dakotans families are industrious and hardworking. For generations, they have turned to SDSU Extension for new ideas and a brighter future through education. The result is economic self-sufficiency, better nutrition, and healthier lifestyles.

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Foods & Nutrition

South Dakota’s two flagship organizations of health and rural life, Sanford Health and SDSU Extension, have formed a new partnership to create iGrow Healthy Families. Sanford brings a strong relationship with WebMD and Disney, to offer a special interactive online platform that helps children and families lead healthier lives through focusing on four key areas: Food, Move, Recharge, and Mood. Join us to experience how fun fitness can be for the whole family.

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Healthy Families Articles

Serving a Crowd – Safe Food Handling Tips When Preparing Ahead of Time

Joan Hegerfeld-Baker – 2/08/2012

Foodborne illness, or food poisoning, is an ever-present threat to South Dakotan’s public health. The Centers for Disease Control estimates each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans gets sick with a foodborne illness. In South Dakota this extrapolates to 136,000 South Dakotans.

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Balancing Your Checkbook

Carrie Johnson – 10/03/2011

Balancing your checkbook may seem like a tedious and useless task when you can just check your balance online. But, there happens to be a few good reasons to balance with your records every month.

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Taking Your Food Thermometer Camping

Lavonne Meyer – 9/12/2011

Food borne illnesses never go on vacation – they are persistent and can even follow you on your camping weekends.  While grilling meat and poultry, a thermometer is the only way to confirm that minimum cooking temperatures have been met.  It is important that you use a food thermometer to make sure harmful bacteria like Salmonella, Camplobacter, and E. coli 0157:H7 are destroyed.

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Parenting Teenagers is a Balancing Act

Donna Bittiker – 9/12/2011

Much press has been given to the challenges of parenting teenagers.  Parenting teenagers requires balancing a child’s growing independence with the adult’s responsibility to set limits.  Through the teenage years, parents must learn to let go of control yet still provide guidance and support as teenagers learn self discipline, responsibility, and the basic skills they need to survive as an adult.

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Food Safety Science Virtual Labs

Joan Hegerfeld-Baker – 8/11/2011

It is critical that science is utilized to ensure that food is handled safety from the farm to the table. 

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