Childhood obesity

$33 Million Investment is Foundation’s Largest Investment in Community-Based Solutions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Smart Growth America is a nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow: one that protects open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices.

This document details the comprehensive school nutrition policy for the School District of Philadelphia. This coordinated school nutrition policy provides the framework for ensuring that students attending schools in Philadelphia receive nutrition education messages that are reinforced throughout the school environment.

This paper prepared by the Prevention Institute identifies community-level environmental factors that discourage physical activity and healthy eating, especially among children and potential issues that can be considered as targets for action or mobilization.

This comprehensive toolkit has been designed to assist citizens in initiating, customizing and implementing a Safe Routes to School program. It discusses the 4E's model of Encouragement, Education, Engineering and Enforcement.

The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) serves as a catalyst to promote, encourage and motivate the development of physical fitness and sports participation for all Americans of all ages. Established by Executive Order in 1956, the PCPFS is made up of 20 members appointed by the President. Assisted by elements of the U.S. Public Health Service, the PCPFS provides guidance to the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on how to get more Americans physically active.

In CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity provides science-based activities for children and adults that address the role of nutrition and physical activity in health promotion and the prevention and control of chronic diseases.

This program has been successfully used across the United States to engage youth and adults in community development and change. The process begins with youth trained to collect data that help to provide a comprehensive look at existing community resources. The resulting CYM database highlights resource availability and gaps in a community and serves as a basis for organizing community change. Community Youth Mapping is a youth development strategy instituted by the AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research. It is ideally coordinated by a local public/private/nonprofit partnership and led by a local community-based institution.

This document addresses foods and beverages found in traditional cafeteria meals as well as a la carte items, vending machines drinks and snacks, and foods and beverages served in after school programs and at school functions. Three state agencies--the North Carolina Division of Public Health, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service--collaborated to create this document. Local education agencies are encouraged to use the Eat Smart School Standards to craft food policies that will contribute to students' nutritional well-being and health.