Healthy Weight Council Toolkits
Body and Minds (BAM!)
CDC's
BAM! has interactive, educational, and fun fitness activities for kids 9–13
years old.
http://www.bam.gov/
Center for Screen Time Awareness
To help people to live healthier lives in functional families in
vibrant communities by taking control of the electronic media in their lives,
not allowing it to control them
http://www.screentime.org/
Eat Smart. Play Hard.™
Includes
practical suggestions that will help motivate children and their caregivers to
eat healthy and be active.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/
Empowering Youth
Manual for use in after school programs
and classrooms with youth 11-18 years old. Provides information hands-on
activities; ideas to include nutrition education and physical activity into
youth programs and events; resources to help youth develop a nutrition or
physical activity related community project
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/empoweringyouth.html
Family Village Leisure and Recreation Resources
Family Village integrates information, resources, and communication
opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities,
for their families, and for those that provide them services and support
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/recreat.htm
Fruits & Veggies Matter
Recipes, fruit and vegetable servings
calculator, tips to help increase fruit and vegetable intake, and
resources.
http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/
GirlsHealth.gov
Site to
help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may
face including nutrition and fitness.
http://www.4girls.gov/
Healthy
Celebrations –
Ideas for Healthy School Parties and Other Celebrations
A list of
ideas for using school parties and other celebrations to help children practice
wise food choices and/or sift the focus from the food to the child.
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/child/reps/celebrations.pdf
Healthy
Fundraising –
Ideas for Healthy Fundraising Alternatives
A list of
ideas for North Dakota schools to raise money by using fundraising alternatives
other than foods of little nutritional value
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/child/reps/fundraising.pdf
Kids’ Health
Healthy
game and activity links
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/closet/
Kidnetic
Interactive
Web site featuring healthy recipes, fun games, information about how your body
works and information for parents
http://www.kidnetic.com/
Local Wellness Policy
Team Nutrition website with Local Wellness
Policy requirements, process to create, examples of local policies and
implementation tools and resources
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Healthy/wellnesspolicy.html
Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active!
An interactive after-school education
program for young people ages 11 to 13 designed to help teach about the complex
media and how it can affect health
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/msy/
MyPyramid
Interactive tools to plan and assess food
choices and improve your diet
www.mypyramid.gov
National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
Provides information and resources that can enable people with
disabilities to become as physically active as they choose to be
http://www.ncpad.org/
National Eating Disorders Association
Provides education, resources and support to those affected by eating
disorders. Information for individuals, parents, educators and professionals
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
National Institute of Mental Health
Information about eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/eating-disorders/complete-publication.shtml
Nutrition Fact Sheets
Fact
sheets provide nutrition information, healthy eating tips, and recipes from the
American Dietetic Association
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition_350_ENU_HTML.htm
Team
Nutrition
Supports
USDA Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for
foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school
and community support for healthy eating and physical activity
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/
TV
Turn-Off Network
Tips,
research studies, fact sheets, and other resources related to the problem of
excess TV time
http://www.tvturnoff.org/
VERB ’Tween’ Web site
Interactive
web site for kids that has creative ideas for physical activity
http://www.verbnow.com/
Weight Control Information Network
Database of articles and resources
designed for the general public, health professionals, the media and Congress
providing up-to-date, science-based information on obesity, weight control,
physical activity, and related nutritional issues.
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/resources/index.htm
