CHILD NUTRITION AND WELLNESS
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Check your choice - is it a healthy snack? Guide to Healthy school stores Healthy Celebration Healthy Surfing Can surfing the Internet help your teen get healthy and fit? Yes – if she knows where to look. The Web is packed with sites about food and fitness, many of them with teen and teen appeal. Ten websites are listed below to help steer your child toward better nutrition and a more active lifestyle.
Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years, a trend that means, for the first time in our history, American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents. We need to get moving. Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity. Let's Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. Let’s Move will give parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country. President Obama Names Childhood Obesity Taskforce
HealthierUS School Challenge http://www.teamnutrition.usda.gov/HealthierUS/index.html www.smartmouth.org http://library.thinkquest.org/5407 www.kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition http://shapeup.org/fittips/index.php http://whyfiles.org/019olympic/index.php Monthly
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