School Alphabetical Listing of Topics
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Nutrition
and Physical Activity Program home page.
A
- Activity Logs – Samples of how to record and track your physical
activity
- Activity
Zone - A handy form to identify nearby places that you can walk or
bike to be more active.
- Afterschool
Active Hours - Site for physical activity resources, tools and
information to help afterschool providers and advocates .
- Alliance
for a Healthier Generation - Tools and
information created by a partnership between the American Heart
Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation that joined together
to fight childhood obesity.
- American Dietetic Association:
Accurate and up-to-date nutrition information and tips, including how
to locate a Registered Dietitian in your area
B
C
D
E
F
-
Fad Diets -
A reference guide from the Federal Trade Commission on evaluating
weight loss claims
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Family Physical Activity Brochure
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Fit
Source - This site links child care and after school providers
to a wide variety of physical activity and nutrition resources.
-
Fitness
Facility, How to select and use (PDF, 818 KB)
-
Free
Weights, How to select and use (PDF, 611 KB)
- Food and Nutrition
Information Center: Useful and accurate information for health
professionals, teachers, and parents
- Food Guide
Pyramid (MyPyramid.Gov): Find a personalized plan that provides
you with recommendations for healthier eating. Released in April 2005
by the USDA, this new dietary guidance system, called MyPyramid: Steps
to a Healthier You, has replaced the Food Guide Pyramid. Visit this
interactive website for a personal plan, as well as tips and
suggestions for eating healthier and being physically active.
- Food Guide
Pyramid for Children: Includes free printable Food Guide Pyramid
for Children and tips for using the pyramid
- Food Labels:
General information and education tools
- Footprints to Health - Wausau: A
neighborhood initiative to be active and eat healthy.
G
H
- Health Risk Assessment - Real
Age is an interactive web tool that assesses your health based on
an extensive interview and then provides you with a personalized plan
to feel younger and a list of what’s making you younger or older.
- Healthy People 2010:
National health goals set to prevent and/or reduce threats to health
- Healthy
Schools Product Navigator - Use this free tool to create a
shopping list of foods from companies that have agreed to produce and
sell products to schools that meet the Alliance For a Healthier
Generation healthy snack guidelines.
- Healthfinder - Guide to
reliable health information on prevention, wellness, diseases and
conditions, and access to a medical dictionary. (In Spanish and
English)
- Heart
Healthy Recipes
- How
to select and use free weights (PDF, 612 KB)
-
How
to select and use a fitness facility (PDF, 818
KB)
-
How
to select and use home weights (PDF, 43 KB)
-
How
to select and use a home treadmill (PDF, 177
KB)
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How
to select and use an elliptical trainer (PDF,
88 KB)
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How
to select and use a personal trainer (PDF, 924
KB)
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How
to select and use a stationary bicycle (PDF,
82 KB)
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How
to select and use a stair stepper/stair climber (PDF,
72 KB)
K
L
-
Legislation
database. The nutrition and physical activity legislative
database is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) site
that allows users to search for state-level bills related to nutrition
and physical activity topics.
-
Lighten'
Up Wisconsin
Lighten'
Up Wisconsin is a five-month team challenge that encourages team
members to make small, realistic and permanent changes in their
dietary and exercise habits that will last a lifetime. The
challenge runs form January 9, 2006 to June 9, 2006.
M
-
Make
Your Calories Count - Make Your Calories Count is an
interactive learning program that provides consumers with information
to help plan a healthful diet while managing calorie intake. The
exercises will help consumers use the food label to make decisions
about which food choice is right for them.
-
Menu
Planner - An interactive menu planner designed to guide daily food
and meal choices based on your daily calorie allowance. For directions
on how to use the Menu Planner, click on About the Menu Planner.
-
Movin'
and Munchin' Schools (PDF, 873 KB)
Movin’ and
Munchin’ Schools is an innovative program designed to increase the
level of physical activity and improve nutrition choices among
Wisconsin’s school children and their families and school staff. It
also rewards participating schools with funds to improve their
nutrition and physical education programs.
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MyPyramid.Gov
(Food Guide Pyramid): Interested in a plan that provides you with
recommendations for healthier eating? Released in April 2005 by the
USDA, this new dietary guidance system, called MyPyramid: Steps to a
Healthier You, has replaced the Food Guide Pyramid. Visit this
interactive website for a personal plan, as well as tips and
suggestions for eating healthier and being physically active.
-
MyPyramid
for Kids - New dietary guidelines (2005) specifically designed for
kids.
N
- National Eating Disorder Association:
Provide information on detecting eating disorders such as anorexia,
binge eating, and bulimia
-
Nutrition – CDC
Nutrition Home Page
-
Nutrition
facts: Smart Mouth - An interactive website full of healthy
kid-friendly snack ideas, interesting nutrition facts, and ways you
can get involved with promoting healthy eating.
-
Nutrition
Facts Label Brochure (PDF, 342 KB) - A
color brochure with information about how to read and what to look for
in food labels.
-
Nutrition.gov
- Link to federal government clearinghouse with nutrition
information from multiple government agencies
- Nutrition for Kids: Useful
information for parents, teachers, and fun activities for kids.
- Nutrition
Standards for Foods in Schools (PDF, 335 KB) -
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) that makes recommendations about appropriate
nutritional stands for foods at school.
O
P
R
-
Restaurants
- A searchable list of restaurants in Wisconsin that have healthy menu
options.
-
The
Role of Schools in Obesity Prevention - A summary document
discussing how U.S. schools offer many opportunities for developing
obesity-prevention strategies by providing more nutritious food,
offering greater opportunities for physical activity, and providing
obesity-related health services.
S
- Safe Routes to Schools - Learn more about how to establish a Safe
Routes to School program for your school or district. Look at
these sites for more information: Federal
Safe Routes for background information, California
Safe Routes for materials, Wisconsin
Safe Routes for state information and contacts.
- School Health Award
- Link to information on how to make your school a healthier place and
how to apply for the Governor's School Health Award.
- School Nutrition Association
(Formerly the American School Food Service Association): Information
on school lunches and improving nutrition in the school environment,
as well as continuing education opportunities for child nutrition
professionals
- School Nutrition Information
- LInk to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Team
Nutrition website
-
School Physical Activity Brochure
- School
Nutrition Success Stories - Making It Happen! School Nutrition
Success Stories tells the stories of schools and school districts
that have implemented innovative strategies to improve the nutritional
quality of foods and beverages sold outside of Federal meal programs.
- School Wellness Policies -
Look under the Nutrition and Physical Activity Legislative Database
for various sites that have school wellness policies.
- Schools - What Works
in Schools: A summary of evidence-based or promising strategies to
get students and staff to eat well and be active.
- Shaping
America’s Youth
- Snacks for Kids:
Smart Mouth - An interactive website full of healthy kid-friendly
snack ideas, interesting nutrition facts, and ways you can get
involved with promoting healthy eating.
- School
Snacks - Healthy school snack ideas for parents, teachers, after
school programs, and other caregivers. (PDF, 370
KB)
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Stationary
Bicycle - How to select and use a (PDF, 82 KB)
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Stair
Stepper/Stair Climber - How to select and use (PDF,
72 KB)
T
W
-
Walk
to School Information
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Walkability
checklist – Checklist to rate how friendly your community is for
walking
-
Walking / Pedometer Program – How
to Use Pedometers as Part of a Walking Program (PDF,
28 KB)
-
Walking
route - Map and measure your own route. Use this tool to
view a map and create your own walking route. The tool lets you
choose the route and automatically calculates the distance.
- What Works – Advice and samples of successful physical activity
programs
- Wausau - Footprints to Health: A
neighborhood initiative to be active and eat healthy.
- Weighing
and Measuring in Schools (PDF, 1.69 MB)
- This document has been developed with the following objectives: 1)
to help schools to be better informed when making the decision of
whether or not to weigh and measure students; 2) to provide guidance
and policy recommendations to schools that choose to weigh and measure
students: and 3) to provide resources for schools to create
environments supportive of healthy lifestyles. To order a hard
copy, contact Mary
Pesik.
- Weight
Control Information Network: Provides health professionals and
consumers with evidence-based information on obesity, weight control,
and nutrition
- Weight
Training - This site contains animated demonstrations of how to
use free weight equipment and provides sample workout sheets to record
your weight lifting activities.
- What Works in Schools
(PDF, 503 KB):
A summary of evidence-based or promising strategies to get students
and staff to eat well and be active.
-
Wisconsin
Nutrition Education Network
The Wisconsin
Nutrition Education Network facilitates collaborative planning of
nutrition education programs at the state and local levels.
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