Archive: Childhood Obesity

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General Resources

• AAFP: American Family Physician:  Evaluation and Treatment of Childhood Obesity
  

• CDC:
  

-A Coordinated School Health Program

-School Health Index

• Center for Health in Schools:  Childhood Obesity:  What Research Tells Us
  

• Familydoctor.org:  Obesity and Children:  Helping Your Child Keep a Healthy Weight
  

• Institute of Medicine:
  

-Communities Can Play a Role in Preventing Childhood Obesity

-Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth (September 2004)

• Kaiser Family Foundation:  Survey on Childhood Obesity (March 2004)
  

• NASBE:   Fit, Healthy and Ready to Learn:  A School Health Policy
  

• NIHCM: Childhood Obesity-Advancing Effective Prevention and Treatment: An Overview for Professionals
  

• USDHHS:  Prevention: A Blueprint for Action
  

• Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity
  

• USDA - Food and Nutrition Information Center
  

-Childhood Obesity:  Weight Control and Obesity

-Childhood Obesity:  Food and Nutrition  Resource List for Educators and Researchers

-Eat Smart.  Play Hard

-Nutrition and your Health:  2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

-USDA's 5-a-Day Fruit and Vegetable Program

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School-based Health Promotion

• Healthy Start
  

• Take 10!
  

• SPARK
  

• Stanford SMART Intervention
  

• CATCH
  

• Eat Well & Keep Moving
  

• Planet Health
  

• Stanford Adolescent Heart Health Program
  

• Team Nutrition
  

Community-based Health Promotion

• North Carolina:  Color Me Healthy
  

• Generation Fit
  

• America on the Move: Colorado on the Move
  

• Hearts n' Parks
  

• CanFit
  

• California Project LEAN
  

• Girls on the Run and Girls on Track
  

• VERBTM It's what you do
  

Health Care Setting Interventions.

• PACE+