Local Resources
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
- Healthy Catering and Event Guide: How to make healthy choices part of your next event
- 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 2012: Obesity rates compared nationwide
