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General Health

  • 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.
  • Return on Investment Calculator for Worksite Wellness - Use the calculator to project the impact of evidence-based wellness programs on health care costs, productivity, and absenteeism at your worksite. 

Nutrition

  • 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.
  • BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculator - Calculate how many calories you burn per day 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • My Pyramid Tracker (Diet Analysis) - The online dietary assessment provides information on your diet quality, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient information.
  • Nutrition Facts Label Brochure (PDF, 342 KB) - A color brochure with information about how to read and what to look for in food labels.
  • Portion Distortion Quiz - Learn how portion sizes have changed over the years, which may be a contributing factor to the current rise of overweight and obesity.
  • Women's: My Bright Future - Physical activity and healthy eating tools  for young women. 

Physical activity

Overweight & Obesity

(Body Mass Index) calculator = Calculate your BMI

  • BMI for Adults
  • BMI-for-Children (Body Mass Index) Charts - BMI-for-age charts are recommended to assess weight in relation to stature for children ages 2 to 20 years; used to determine childhood overweight
  • BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculator - Calculate how many calories you burn per day
  • Childhood Overweight Recommendations - Key recommendations on screening and interventions for overweight children and adolescents, including clinical considerations and future research directions.
  • Obesity trends – CDC overview of obesity trends including a Powerpoint presentation showing visual evidence of the increase in obesity 1985-2002
  • Palm Pilot Downloads - 
  • Prescription for a Healthier You (PDF, 18 KB) - A "prescription" sheet that can be used by health care providers to prescribe healthy lifestyle changes for their patients.  A modifiable Word document that you can adapt to your organization is also available.
  • 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.

Creating Active Communities and Environments

  • Bikeability checklist - checklist to rate how friendly your community is for biking

  • Environment – tips and tools on how to create a good environment for physical activity, particularly walking & biking -

  • Walkability checklist – Checklist to rate how friendly your community is for walking
  • The Worksite Wellness Resource Kit (PDF, 331 KB) is a tool to assist worksites with implementing strategies that have been proven to be effective.  The kit provides information to implement a broad range of strategies or programming: some will require very little or no resources while other strategies may require considerable resources.  The kit shows you ways to get started and make a difference in the health of your employees, regardless of the size of your worksite and its available resources.

What Works – Advice and samples of successful physical activity programs

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Last Updated: October 30, 2009