Local Resources

• Mississippi Farmer's Market
• Farm-to-School and Farm-to-Preschool

Guides to Good Nutrition

• Fruits and Vegetables: More Matters 5 servings a day for best health
• 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

• 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: 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
• BodyWorks: A healthy eating and physical activity toolkit
• 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