Guides to Good Nutrition

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans: A complete guide from the USDA
• 3-A-Day and the National Dairy Council: Why dairy counts in your diet
• Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids: A nutrition guide for parents
• Eat Right on the Run: Don't leave nutrition behind when you leave home.
• Nutrition Quiz: Test your knowledge of food facts.
• Folic acid is an important nutritional supplement for pregnant women.

Handouts

• Cooking Healthy at Home: Healthy Substitutions
• Cooking Healthy at Home: Reducing Salt
• Cooking Healthy at Home: Reducing Sugar
• Healthy Choices for Eating Out: Fast Food Tips
• Healthy Choices for Eating Out: Decoding Restaurant Menus

Menu Planning and Recipes

• Fruit and Veggie Quantity Recipe Cookbook: 30 tasty fruit and vegetable based bulk recipes  About the Cookbook »
• Interactive Menu Planner: Calculate calories consumed, determine your basic nutritional needs, and more.
• Brown Bagging With Style: Nutritious lunches on the go
• Meals for Meetings: Add healthy food and physical activity to your meetings
• Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes: Learn to cook favorite traditional Latino dishes in a heart healthy way with this bilingual cookbook. (PDF)

• ChooseMyPlate.gov: Tools and information for better eating from the USDA
• My Food Advisor: Food and diet information, tracking and menu planning for diabetics or anyone wanting to lose weight (from the American Diabetes Association)
• What’s on a Food Label?: Understanding nutrition when you shop.

• Menu Planning for Child Care Operators: Guidelines and checklist for planning nutritious meals for children

Professionals and Teachers

Interactive

• Eat Smart, Play Hard: Interactive games, handouts, and information for children, parents, and teachers
• Nourish Interactive: A free resource for fun nutrition games for kids, and interactive nutrition tools and tips for parents and health educators
• Action for Healthy Kids: Includes the Game On! Wellness Challenge
• Test Your Food Label Knowledge: On-line food label quiz

Special Topics

• Drink Water First: Drinking more water is one of the simplest way to stay healthy. Adults and kids can check out fun gadgets, and learn some surprising stuff.
• Make Your Calories Count: Interactive learning program for food labels and diet planning
• Vending Machine Products: Guidance from the state Office of Healthy Schools

Teaching and Learning Materials

• MyPlate Lesson Plans: Aids for teaching students practical ways to implement MyPlate.gov meal suggestions. (Learning ZoneXpress.com)
• Bright Futures: Health promotion and disease prevention resource for nursing, health care professionals, and educators
• Portion Distortion: Presentations from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Web Sites and Toolkits

• Healthy People 2010: Steps to good health and a long life
• BodyWorks: A healthy eating and physical activity toolkit
• Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit: A guide for local and state leaders working to create healthy communities and prevent childhood obesity
• First Years in the First State: Nutrition and physical activity toolkit for childcare providers (Delaware)
• FNIC Resource List: From the USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Cultural and Ethnic Nutrition Education: Materials from the USDA
• HealthFinder.gov: Comprehensive source for reliable health information on-line

Policy, Guidelines and Reports

• Community Strategies to Prevent Obesity (CDC): Includes measurement data protocols, a listing of useful resources, and examples of communities that successfully implemented each obesity prevention strategy
• The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation 2010: Recommendations on nutrition and physical activity, school wellness policies, child care, improving access to fruits and vegetables, reducing junk food marketing to children, and supporting walking and biking infrastructure.
• Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report, 2008: Science relating physical activity to a variety of health outcomes, with toolkits and guidelines, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Trust for America's Health Obesity Report 2009: Obesity rates compared nationwide