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The Northern California Healthy Eating Active Living (NorCal HEAL) website, administered by the Center, lists resources, materials and information for schools, worksites, neighborhoods, and healthcare, as well as links to cross-sector postings and fundraising opportunities.
Isn’t Gatorade or Powerade the best drink for after practice? Aren’t sports drinks and juice a lot healthier than soda? If professional athletes promote and drink sports drinks, shouldn’t my kids? Parents, coaches, and physical education instructors have often asked about the value of sports drinks. Center researchers answer these and several other frequently asked questions about sports drinks.
Let's Get Moving!: Working Together to Promote Active Lifestyles in Young Children is a toolkit for childcare providers, professionals, and parents that is designed to introduce quick and easy ways to incorporate physical activity into the daily routines of children ages 2-7.
Weighing and measuring children can be a large undertaking and the benefits must outweigh the costs. Weighing the risks and benefits of BMI reporting in the school setting offers guidelines for the collection of weights and heights.
We Can! is unique in that it targets parents of youth ages 8-13 and caregivers and communities to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and reduce screen time among kids to maintain a healthy weight.
The Action Schools! website describes a program in British Colombia that helps schools with grades K-7 integrate physical activity into the classroom with activity breaks. The full program focuses on nutrition, physical education, and overall health in the school.
The Bright Futures in Practice: Physical Activity guide is designed for use by a wide array of health professionals, including physicians, nurses, dietitians, and health educators. The guide provides information health professionals can use to screen and assess the physical activity levels of infants, children, and adolescents and to provide anticipatory guidance on physical activity to families.
Changing the Scene - Improving the School Nutrition Environment is a tool kit that addresses the entire school nutrition environment: commitment to nutrition and physical activity, pleasant eating experiences, quality school meals, healthy food options, nutrition education and marketing the issue to the public.
This educator’s tool kit uses behavior change as the overriding framework with positive, realistic, and achievable goals. It is designed to help educators customize their presentations to meet the needs of a variety of audiences, from very young children to high school students to parents.
