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Obesity Resources
Healthier Generation Benefit With nearly 1 in 3 children and teens in the United States overweight or obese, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is working to enhance the prevention, assessment and treatment of childhood obesity in offices across the country. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a non-profit founded by the American Heart Association and William J. Clinton Foundation, launched the Healthier Generation Benefit enabling families to work with their primary care providers and registered dietitians to achieve lifelong health. Through the Healthier Generation Benefit, eligible children have access to at least four follow up visits with his or her primary care provider and four visits with a registered dietitian per year, without the requirement of a co-morbidity. Click here to learn more. Currently, more than 56,000 providers are in networks that offer the Healthier Generation Benefit. Find out if you’re one of them by contacting healthcare@healthiergeneration.org. Life’s Sweeter with Fewer Sugary Drinks Challenge (Posted 8/11/11) NAPNAP and the Childhood Obesity Special Interest Group (CO SIG) Support the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) Life’s Sweeter with Fewer Sugary Drinks Challenge! Join the Challenge to protect our children, our families, our co-workers, and ourselves from the harmful effects of soda consumption, one of the biggest contributors to obesity in America. Support a realistic goal to help reduce consumption of soda and other sugary drinks from 10 cans per week to a maximum of three per week by 2020, a healthy target proposed by the American Heart Association. Click here for more information and resources. Childhood Obesity Prevention Checklist (Posted 7/22/11) The Let's Move Child Care Checklist presents recommendations for childhood obesity prevention in early care and education. Created as part of the Let’s Move Child Care Web site which was launched by the White House in June, the checklist includes topics such as physical activity, screen time, food, beverages and infant feeding. Click here to access the checklist. New Dinner Plate Replaces Food Pyramid After 20 Years! (Posted 7/22/11) The US Department of Agriculture announced on 6/2/11 that the food pyramid that represented a healthy diet for almost 20 years now gives way to a food plate. It’s called MyPlate, and it has four colored sections representing fruits, vegetables, grains and proteins and a smaller circle next to the plate representing dairy products. Go to www.choosemyplate.gov to learn more! F as in Fat: How Obesity is Threatening Americas Future 2011 (Posted 7/22/11) New Report - This report contains rankings of state obesity rates, reviews federal and state government policies aimed at reducing or preventing obesity, and provides recommendations for addressing obesity within health reform. For more information, visited the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) website at www.healthyamericans.org.
(Posted 1/28/10) First Lady Michelle Obama, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin announced plans to help Americans lead healthier lives through better nutrition, regular physical activity, and improving communities to support healthy choices. Click here to view the press release and full report USPSTF Releases New Recommendations on Obesity (Posted 1/25/10) United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that clinicians screen children aged 6 years and older for obesity and offer them or refer them to comprehensive, intensive behavioral interventions to promote improvement in weight status. To read the full recommendation statement, go to http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf10/childobes/chobesrs.htm
We Can!™ or "Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition" Is a national program sponsored by the NHLBI for families and communities to help children 8-13 years old maintain a healthy weight. Program materials provide tips, fun activities, and references to learn about nutrition, energy balance, and maintaining a physically active lifestyle. Visit the We Can!™ Web pages at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov. Materials such as the new parent program guide are great tools and are available at http://emall.nhlbihin.net.
Two New Resources Are Available from Action for Healthy Kids to Help Youth Make Better Food Choices (Posted 4/28/09) Action for Healthy Kids has released two resources based on the findings of their 2008 research report, Helping Youth Make Better Food Choices: Perceptions, Barriers and Promising Approaches Among Nutrition, Health and Public Health Professionals. The survey includes the responses of members of NAPNAP regarding their experiences in guiding the children and youth they work with to make food choices in keeping with the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans’ “Food Groups to Encourage,” which include fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat and fat-free milk and milk products, while limiting their intake of “junk” foods that contribute little or no nutritional value to their diets.
The resources developed from that research report include a 12-page guide, Helping Youth Make Better Food Choices: Perceptions, Barriers and Promising Approaches Among Nutrition, Health and Public Health Professionals, which offers opinions of these leading professionals on how to address the most common barriers to helping kids make more healthful food choices. The guide recommends action-oriented steps to overcoming these challenges, and suggests additional resources for related information. Also available are three tip sheets targeted specifically to schools, community organizations, and parents and caregivers, the latter in English- and Spanish-language versions. These tip sheets present key suggestions from the guide in a colorful, user-friendly format that would work equally well as a handout or poster. Both resources are also available at www.ActionForHealthyKids.org. Health Education via Animated Eagle Book Series (Posted 9/17/08) Animated versions of the award-winning 'Eagle Book' series are available through CDC-TV. Originally designed to promote culturally-based information about diabetes prevention, physical activity, nutrition and healthy eating among Native American children, the videos may appeal to children and parents of all cultures and represents CDC's efforts to prevent diabetes. For more information, click here. Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report (Posted 7/2/08) The Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report, 2008 is now available. It is the product of the 13-member Advisory Committee and more than 30 additional consultants. You can access the report by clicking the Report link at http://mail.odphp.info/t/284448/1050747/2094/538/. NAPNAP's HEAT Program highlighted in the new knowledge path, Nutrition: Children and Adolescents (Posted 4/23/08) NAPNAP’s HEAT Program is highlighted in the Maternal and Child Health Library newly released knowledge path, Nutrition: Children and Adolescents. The knowledge path offers a guide to recent resources that analyze data, describe public-awareness campaigns and other health-promotion programs, and report on research aimed at identifying promising strategies for improving nutrition and eating behaviors within families, schools, and communities. Separate sections identify resources for professionals, resources for families, and resources on specific aspects of child and adolescent nutrition. Topics include child care and early childhood education, food marketing to children, food safety, food-security and nutrition-assistance programs, and school-based nutrition education and food services. View the path online at http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_overweight.html. Healthy Habits for Life: Child Care Resource Kit (Posted 2/29/08) The Healthy Habits for Life: Child Care Resource Kit, featuring characters from Sesame Street, is designed for pre-school providers to engage children in making healthy lifestyle choices. For more information, click here. Resource Focuses on Child Weight, Nutrition, & Exercise (Posted 4/17/07) A web-based survey and registry is collecting information about populations, methods, funding and outcomes being used by organizations and programs working on child obesity. The Shaping America's Youth (SAY) Survey, part of a broader initiative aimed at improving American children's nutrition and exercise, is sharing collected information in the form of a searchable, national registry of programs to be used by health professionals. The goal is identifying best practices and promoting a professional dialogue on preventing and addressing youth nutrition, weight problems and physical inactivity. To participate, or to use the registry and related resources on the site, go to http://www.shapingamericasyouth.org/. Toolkit on Social & Emotional Child Development - Now available in Spanish (Posted 1/18/07) A Spanish-language resource is helping families and service providers from a range of disciplines as they support the social and emotional development of children. "What to Expect & When to Seek Help: Bright Futures Developmental Tools for Families and Providers," now available in Spanish, was developed by Bright Futures at Georgetown University and the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, with support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Each of the four tools included spotlights a developmental stage - infancy, early child hood, middle childhood and adolescence - providing information about development and parenting, as well as tips on when, where and how to seek help. Also included is a tool to help service providers create a referral network. To access this toolkit in both Spanish and English, go to http://www.brightfutures.org/tools/index.html.
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