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Education
Tools and Materials
for
physical activity, nutrition & health promotion
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American
Heart Association
Facts
and recommendations on obesity and overweight in children.
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American
Obesity Association
Fact sheet
on the prevalence, causes, prevention, and the health risks, diagnosis,
and treatment of childhood obesity.
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American
Public Health Association (APHA)
The APHA fact sheet Children
& Overweight: The Hidden Epidemic provides information,
statistics, and suggestions to promote healthy eating and physical
activity in children, and public health recommendations.
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California
Project LEAN
The impact of Diet
and Physical Activity During Childhood & Adolescence.
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Minnesota
Department of Health Nutrition and Physical Activity Unit
Nutrition
and physical activity brochures and fact sheets. Download pdf
files:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/chp/5aday.htm
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National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at
CDC
Adolescent and school health: Nutrition,
Physical
Activity
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Weight-control
Information Network (WIN) of the National Institute of Diabetes
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Statistics
Related to Overweight and Obesity
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Helping
Your Overweight Child provides statistics and information,
as well as specific tips and recommendations to help families
with overweight children create a supportive environment for healthy
eating and physical activity.
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Dietary
Guidelines for Americans (5th Edition)
This is the most recent edition of the Dietary
Guidelines, organized according to three main
health promotion messages: Aim for Fitness,
Build a Healthy Base, and Choose Sensibly. Publication
#147-G.
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The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has been a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971. FNIC's web site provides a directory to credible, accurate, and practical resources for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government personnel. Visitors can find printable format educational materials, government reports, research papers and more. FNIC nutrition information specialists review all site content to ensure top quality resources.
Web: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/
HeartMemo
HeartMemo is a publication for health professionals. It reports activities of NHLBI education programs and initiatives and findings from Institute-supported research on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Published three times a year, each issue describes effective health promotion strategies and supplies such useful information as data, funding and other resources, and schedules for upcoming NHLBI-affiliated meetings.
Increasing Physical Activity: A Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventative Services
This report includes recommendations on two informational approaches, three behavioral approaches, three behavioral and social approaches, one intervention to increase physical activity by using environmental and policy approaches, and how to apply the interventions locally.
Kids Module - Parents and Children Sharing Food Tasks
This curriculum module helpls paraprofessionals teach parents to develop good eating habits in thier children. It includes a teacher's guide with background information and lesson plans; a videotape in English and Spanish which encourages parents to help their children decide how much to eat, and English and Spanish masters of Good News for Parents, which stresses positive ways parents can help their children develop good eating habits.
Order from:
ANR Communication Services
6701 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd fl.
Oakland, CA 94608-1239
phone, 1-800-994-8849 or 510-642-2431
Ask for publication #EFNEP 5500 (not available through on-line catalog).
National
Public Health: April 7-13, 2003 Planning Guide & Tool Kit
This
American Public Health Association (APHA) toolkit was developed
to help communities and public health personnel plan their National
Public Health Week activities. It includes media advocacy tips,
sample news releases, talking points, and tips on reaching legislators.
Nutrition
and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Nutrition
and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, is published
jointly every 5 years by the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The
Guidelines provide authoritative advice for people two years
and older about how good dietary habits can promote health
and reduce risk for major chronic diseases. They serve as
the basis for Federal food and nutrition education programs.
Nutrition
Education for Low-literate Teens and Adults
This is a quick guide to articles, books, kits, videos and web
sites that discuss nutrition education for teens and adults
with limited reading skills. It also lists resources that will
help you create and find easy-to-read print materials. Some
English as a Second Language materials are included, however,
this is not a major focus of the list.
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Pre-recorded messages in English & Spanish on obesity prevention on AsisTel de la UC
The Spanish Broadcast & Media Services and ANR’s News & Information Outreach, working with the Body, Weight and Health Workgroup, and a group of NFCSA, have developed twenty pre-recorded messages in English and Spanish.
Messages on obesity prevention with advice specific to children, senior citizens and the general population are available by calling 1-800-514-4494. The selection of one- to two-minute-long recorded messages is designed to provide information to Californians and consumers throughout the nation who have no access to the Internet and/or are verbal learners.
Callers simply dial 1-800-514-4494 and punch in the number of the message (see news release) they wish to hear. An audio listing of the titles and corresponding numbers is also available on the toll-free line.
Visit ANR's Online Media Kits web pages for more information in English and Spanish.
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The Recipe Finder database: Food Stamp Nutrition Connections Web site
The Recipe Finder is an online database of healthy recipes designed for food stamp educators, but can be used by any nutrition educator working with low-income audiences. The database can be searched by cost, nutrition education topic, theme, menu items, audience, and cooking equipment. In addition to all of the search options, you also have the ability to rate the recipes and post a review of the recipe.
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Take Care of Yourself!/¡Cuídese bien!
Lessons to Raise Diabetes Awareness in Latinos
This new curriculum for nutrition educators focuses on diabetes awareness and prevention for adult Latinos. Included is information about the risks and consequences of diabetes; treatment, early diagnosis,and control; Latino attitudes, beliefs, and lifestyle factors; traditional folkremedies used to treat symptoms; and suggestions for ways to make positive changes in behavior. Also included are two sample lesson plans, participant self-tests and answer keys, tips for facilitating group discussion, suggestions for starting a walking program, and 10 reproducible black-and-white handouts - each in English and Spanish - with quizzes, exercises, recipes, and other tips for success.
Tools
for Evaluating Environmental Change
This
website, hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies in Nutrition
and Social Marketing at UC Davis, lists tools that have been
made available through the cooperation of many different organizations,
groups, and agencies from both the public and private sectors.
Tools that have been formally validated are indicated in the
description. Those that have not been validated have been developed
by experienced researchers and program planners, using tested
questions of others, expert reviewers, and pre-testing to guide
their development. This compilation of tools can be used to
evaluate environmental factors such as; walkability of a community,
availability of healthy food in grocery stores, social supports
for diet behaviors, or organizational characteristics of a worksite. Web: http://socialmarketing-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/Tools/somarktools.php back to index
WIN the Rockies (Wellness IN the Rockies)
WIN the Rockies, a community-based research, intervention and outreach project seeks to improve health in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming by addressing obesity innovatively and effectively. Through a four-year food and nutrition-related behavior-change consortium project involving the University of Idaho, Montana State University, the University of Wyoming, their extension services, their WWAMI Medical Education Programs, the Area Health Education Centers in Wyoming and Montana, along with other state organizations and community groups, WIN presents topics such as valuing health, respecting body-size differences, enjoying the benefits of self-acceptance, enjoying physically active living, and enjoying healthful and pleasurable eating to communities in the Rockies. Web pages of interest: Rx Presciptions for Adults , Win Steps Walking Programs.
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Alliance for a Healthier Generation
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint initiative between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, works nationally to create awareness and real solutions for the childhood obesity epidemic.The goal of the Alliance is to stop the nationwide increase in childhood obesity by 2010 and to empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site includes information for schools, parents, teens, healthcare professionals, and companies.
Web: http://www.healthiergeneration.org/engine/renderpage.asp?pid=s034
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Beyond
Nutrition Counseling: Reframing
the Battle Against Obesity
This is an award-winning video developed as a part of the Fit
WIC project. The video addresses the prevention and management
of childhood obesity, using day-in-the-life segments with 3
low-income mothers who are WIC clients to highlight the struggles
parents face rearing young children. It is intended to encourage
discussion among healthcare professionals and policy makers
about the fact that parents may be unable to implement nutritional
advice without improved child-rearing skills.
Bright
Futures in Practice: Nutrition
This guide contains
strategies and tools to help health professionals provide
nutrition supervision partnerships with families and communities.
The guide presents developmental nutrition guidelines for
children and adolescents from birth to 21, emphasizing health
promotion, disease prevention, and early recognition of nutrition
concerns. The information in the guide can also be adapted
for use with families. Published by the National Center for
Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH).
Bright
Futures in Practice: Physical Activity
This guide is designed
for use by a wide array of health professionals, including physicians,
nurses, dietitians, and health educators. The guide provides
information health professionals can use to screen and assess
the physical activity levels of infants, children, and adolescents
and to provide anticipatory guidance on physical activity to
families. It presents physical activity guidelines and tools
emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, and early
recognition of physical activity issues and concerns in infants,
children, and adolescents. Published by the National Center
for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH).
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CDC Growth Charts: United States (2000)
Growth
charts for children and youth ages 2 to 20, data tables, educational
materials, computer programs, reports and related links. http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/
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Child Health Toolbox: Measuring Performance in Child Health Programs Access, Quality, and Health Service Delivery
Concepts, tips, and tools for evaluating Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Title V, and other health care service programs for children.
This online
resource can help State and local policymakers and
program directors and staff to answer these and related questions
about measuring health care performance in child health programs.
website: http://www.ahrq.gov/chtoolbx/
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Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle
An educator's tool kit using behavior change as the overriding framework with positive, realistic, and achievable goals. The tool kit is designed to help educators customize their presentations to meet the needs of a variety of audiences, including from very young children to high school students to parents.
Children
and Weight: What Communities Can Do
You can organize a COMMUNITY COALITION using Children and
Weight: What Schools and Communities Can Do, the most recent
project in a series of materials on childhood overweight developed
through Cooperative Extension at the University of California.
The Children and Weight series includes informative publications
for parents as well as health care professionals on this high
profile public health concern.
The Children
and Weight: What Schools and Communities Can Resource Kit
will serve as a "how-to" guide offering technical
assistance to community leaders who wish to launch a local
task force dedicated to reducing childhood overweight.
The Resource
Kit includes:
·
Essential, up-to-date information on childhood overweight,
including: prevalence, best-practices approaches for prevention,
and social concerns related to body image;
· Explanation of rationale and philosophy for
empowerment approach;
· Guidelines for mapping community resources,
identifying and recruiting potential task force members, and
discovering the range of possible activities (based on the
Spectrum of Prevention);
· Guidelines for setting the group's course:
developing vision, mission, goals and objectives, and action
plan;
· Tips for facilitating effective meetin |
