Physical Activity
Get Kids Moving
Get Kids Moving will jump-start your efforts – whether you live in Oregon or anywhere else in the country - by sharing facts about walking, biking and rolling to school, describing roles you can play, and outlining programs and resources available to you now.
Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity
Provides developmental guidelines on physical activity for the periods of infancy through adolescence. Includes current information on screening, assessment, and counseling to promote physical activity and to meet the needs of health professionals, families, and communities.
MEDLINEplus: Exercise for Children
A compendium of information including overviews, research, tips for parents, newsletters, and statistics.
Society of Health And Physical Educators - SHAPE America
SHAPE America has published many guides including "Active Start, A Statement of Physical Activity Guidelines for Children Birth to Five Years" and "Physical Activity for Children, A Statement of Guidelines for Children Ages 5-12."
The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Provides an overview of the President's Council with links to other federal physical activity programs as research digests and other resources.
Fruits and Veggies: More Matters
Oregon Farmers' Markets
The site lists Oregon farmers' markets by region.
Community Tools
Moving to the Future
This site contains tools for developing community-based nutrition services, including planning tools and training materials.
Client Counseling
Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition
This guide emphasizes prevention and early recognition of nutrition concerns and provides developmentally appropriate nutrition supervision guidelines for infancy through adolescence. The guide contains strategies and tools to help health professionals provide screening, assessment, and counseling.
Consumer Resources
Nutrition for Kids
Click on "Feeding Kids" newsletter for consumer articles, teacher tips, and recipes.
Food and Nutrition Information
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Association Nutrition
A variety of publications on healthy eating and physical activity.
The Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC)
The Children's Nutrition Research Center, operated by Baylor College of Medicine, conducts scientific investigations into the role of maternal, infant, and child nutrition in optimal health, development, and growth.
Nutrition
Linking and searching capability for all government nutrition sites. Provides an extensive interactive scientific reference section.
USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Find all the federal nutrition guidelines here. Includes Dietary Guidelines, the Food Guide Pyramid, the Food Guide Pyramid for Children 2-6 Years Old, the Healthy Eating Index (evaluates individual diets), Interactive Physical Activity tool, nutrient content of the food supply, downloadable brochures, research briefs, recipes, and web-based training.
Food Security, Poverty, and Obesity
Food and Nutrition Service
This site describes nutrition assistance and government food assistance programs for children and low-income people.
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
There are links on this site to multiple articles on the paradox of obesity and hunger.
Resources for Schools
Healthy Kids Learn Better (HKLB)
The Healthy Kids Learn Better Partnership is an Oregon statewide effort to help local schools and communities form partnerships and reduce physical, social, and emotional barriers to learning. It begins with a local HKLB Team, and reaches kids through the eight components of coordinated school health. The HKLB Toolkit is available to download.
Team Nutrition
An initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the 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.
Model School Wellness Policies
The U.S. Congress established a new requirement that all school districts with a federally-funded school meals program develop and implement wellness policies that address nutrition and physical activity by the start of the 2006-2007 school year. This link will take you to model school wellness policies that were developed by a work group that the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity convened. There are also additional resources listed on the website.