Programs aim to get rural North Dakotans moving, eating healthier

Youth campers make tortillas and pizza dough from scratch at a North Dakota 4H Camp last year in Washburn. Camp participants also took part in a Healthy Camp Challenge where all children received pedometers to track their daily step total while in camp. Photo provided by NDSU Extension.
Youth campers make tortillas and pizza dough from scratch at a North Dakota 4H Camp last year in Washburn. Camp participants also took part in a Healthy Camp Challenge where all children received pedometers to track their daily step total while in camp. Photo provided by NDSU Extension.

Federal grants set to flow to community gardens, activity programs

By Michael Standaert, North Dakota News Cooperative Chronic disease and metabolic dysfunction affect large numbers of North Dakotans.

Several new programs coming soon to rural areas aim to reverse that by getting people moving and making healthy, whole foods more accessible.

“What I want people to know is that moving is the most impor…