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Nutrition & Physical Activity: Educational Materials |
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For Advocacy and Policy Efforts |
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Preventing Childhood Obesity: Research on Effective School-based Interventions |
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This policy brief gives an overview of the scientific literature examining school-based obesity prevention. This colorful policy paper includes examples of peer-reviewed obesity prevention and intervention program, a syntehsis of best practices, and a spotlight on future directions. It is designed to help inform policymakers on evidence-based approaches to reducing childhood obesity. |
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For Students and Families |
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Bright Futures Nutrition Family Fact Sheets
This series of fact sheets for families highlight content from the 2002 publication Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition. The illustrated fact sheets, organized by developmental period, provide information in a question and answer format and are designed for parents and other family members. |
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DVDs for Children, Parents, and Healthcare Providers
Help Combat Childhood Obesity |
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed a DVD to teach children and their parents about smart eating and physical activity and another DVD to educate clinicians about the best ways to prevent and treat obesity in children. Follow the link for a preview of both DVDs. Copies of the DVDs are available through the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse by calling 1-800-358-9295. |
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After School Programs |
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Changing Lives, Saving Lives |
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A new resource, Changing Lives, Saving Lives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Food Security in Afterschool Programs, can be downloaded at the After School Solutions website. It was developed as part of the Center for Collaborative Solutions' Healthy Behaviors Initiative. The guide is designed to help afterschool program and site directors, members of leadership teams and program partners systematically–and in an intentional way–strengthen their own nutrition, physical activity and food security practices using step-by-step guidance together with examples from ten afterschool programs across the state that have implemented the practices at an exemplary level. Follow the link to learn more about the Healthy Behaviors Initiative. |
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Other Resources |
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CDC's VERB Campaign |
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The CDC's VERB campaign site for partners and professionals includes an advertising gallery to view the activity-inspiring ads that have been reaching teens and their parents via television, radio, print, and other marketing channels since the campaign's launch. The site also features materials and tips for organizations to promote physical activity, the campaign's research plan and the reports that are available to date, and fact sheets/background information that organizations can draw upon to promote VERB and physical activity. |
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A Nation at Risk |
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The American Heart Association in cooperation with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has developed a useful resource to understand the topic of obesity, A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States Statistical Sourcebook. The sourcebook contains data on the prevalence and possible causes of obesity. It also provides research and statistics on the relations between obesity and racial, ethnic, geographic and economic disparities, as well as inequalities in access to healthy food and physical activity opportunities. |
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Program Justification: Research Shows that School Programs Seen Effective in Preventing Obesity |
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Researchers who surveyed 5,200 5th grade students, along with the students' parents and school principals, found that schools with programs that included recommendations for healthy eating had significantly lower rates of overweight and obesity. Reporting in the March 2005 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, the researchers concluded: school programs are effective in preventing childhood obesity and there is need for broader implementation of successful programs. |
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School Food and Beverage Marketing Assessment Tool |
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This tool assesses food and beverage advertising (PDF) on school campuses providing results that are useful to health professionals and educators concerned with children's health and the types of food messages in schools. The assessment involves walking around the school campus to observe any advertising, marketing or promotion of foods or beverages as well as talking to students and school staff to collect information for any food or beverage, whether considered healthy or not. |
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Taking Action for Healthy School Environments:
Linking Education, Activity, and Food in California Secondary Schools |
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Through case studies featuring 18 California school districts, Taking Action for Healthy School Environments illustrates promising practices and provides recommendations for policy action and environmental change in the following four areas to improve student health—and thus academic potential: 1) Adopt local school wellness policies that institutionalize links between education, physical activity, and food; 2) Increase nutrition education opportunities for students; 3) Increase physical activity for students and the community; and 4) Implement nutrition standards for all food and beverages offered at school. |
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