Obesity Prevention
HealthyChildren.org is a website designed for parents by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
On HotChalk teachers can find health lesson plans, teaching kids how to tell if food is good or bad for them, exercise habits, and other information to keep students healthy.
KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
Here, childcare educators can get tips and tools to help children develop healthy habits for life.
Here, teachers can find tips and lesson plans for teaching students healthy habits in an informative and entertaining way.
Parents and teachers can use this web page to read the top 50 blogs for understanding and preventing childhood obesity.
The department of health provides tips for parents for childhood obesity prevention.
The National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity encourages schools, school districts, and others to use, distribute, and adapt the Model School Wellness Policies. The policies provide best practices in food and drink quality, physical activity and food marketing promotion, opportunities for physical activity, and monitoring and policy review.
Contains research and resources about the cause and effects of bullying. Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. It affects more than 18 percent of children, making it the most common chronic disease of childhood. This number has more than tripled since 1980.
Childhood obesity has tripled in the past few years, here is a passionate advocate that provides lesson plans and information on combating these numbers and preventing obesity in children.
Prevent Obesity is building a social network movement to prevent childhood obesity. It is easy to join the movement and parents and teachers can find helpful resources to keep kids moving.
ScienceNetLinks provides student activity sheets and lesson plans to teach students healthy habits in an attempt to create healthy lifestyles.