Nutrition Resources and Links
Local Resources
Guides to Good Nutrition
- 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
- 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
- Diabetes Food Hub: Food and diet information, tracking and menu planning for diabetics or anyone wanting to lose weight (from the American Diabetes Association)
- Menu Planning for Child Care Operators: Guidelines and checklist for planning nutritious meals for children
Professionals and Teachers
Interactive
- 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
Teaching and Learning Materials
- Bright Futures: Health promotion and disease prevention resource for nursing, health care professionals, and educators
- Portion Distortion: Information from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Tips for Teachers: Ways to reward children without food, how to include physical activity in the classroom, and much more (PDF)
Web Sites and Toolkits
- Healthy People: A project to improve the health of all Americans
- First Years in the First State: Nutrition and physical activity toolkit for childcare providers (Delaware)
- 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
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