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Children / Adolescents -- Information & Resources
Action for Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids is the nation’s leading nonprofit and largest volunteer network fighting childhood obesity and undernourishment by working with schools to improve nutrition and physical activity to help our kids learn to eat right, be active every day and be ready to learn.
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org
Calling All Junior Food Detectives!
Kaiser Permanente's interactive detective game takes children (ages 9-10) through activities that show how to choose healthy foods and how to get more active. Amazing Food Detective also includes an array of features that get kids moving and away from the computer, such as an automatic shut-off function after 20 minutes that reminds kids to get active, printable scavenger hunts, and family activities that encourage better eating habits.
https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/redirects/landingpages/afd/
Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Materials
The Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign was launched by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to encourage and teach children, parents, and caregivers to eat healthy and be physically active every day. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ offers resources and tools to convey and reinforce healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPyramid Food Guidance System. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ is about making America's children healthier. It's about practical suggestions that will help you motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active. Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Campaign messages and materials are fun for children and informative for caregivers.
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/eatsmartmaterials.html
Empowering Youth with Nutrition & Physical Activity
Empowering Youth is a manual for use in after school programs and classrooms with youth 11-18 years old. It contains current nutrition and physical activity information to enhance leader knowledge; fun, hands-on activities that teach nutrition concepts; ideas to include nutrition education and physical activity into youth programs and events; resources to help youth develop a nutrition or physical activity related community project; tips, worksheets, handouts, discussion prompters and more!
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/empoweringyouth.html
BAM! Body and Mind
Got a question about fitness? Disease? Peer pressure? Visit BAM! Body and Mind will tell you all you need to know about all the stuff that matters. Designed for kids 9–13 years old, CDC's BAM! Body and Mind gives them the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices.
http://www.bam.gov/
3 Reasons Why Snacks Are Good for You:
You might think that eating between meals is a nutritional no-no. But according to experts, nibbling throughout the day can enhance health in the following ways:
1.) Snacks rev up your metabolism. A study published in the British Medical Journal revealed that snacking helps to jump-start your metabolism, allowing your body to process calories more efficiently.
2.) Snacks fight fatigue. Healthy snacks that contain protein and complex carbohydrates help to increase your blood glucose levels, giving you an immediate, lasting energy boost.
3.) Snacks keep you from overeating. Waiting too long between meals to eat can make you famished and more likely to binge. Snacks, on the other hand, help to keep hunger at bay.
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