Reports and Resources for Child Health Providers

Here are some good resources that may help you in your clinical practice.

Reports on Childhood Obesity

• F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011
• Childhood and Obesity CDC Data and Reports
• “Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth” June 23, 2011
  National Institute of Medicine
• Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity” August 2003
  American Academy of Pediatrics Journal

Pediatric Clinical Tools

• 2000 CDC Growth Charts: United States
  Printable growth charts
• My Plate
  USDA Website that provides information and tools for professionals.
• HEAT Clinical Practice Guidelines and Resource Kit
  NAPNAP's HEATsm (Healthy Eating and Activity Together): Identifying and Preventing Overweight in Childhood Clinical Practice Guideline and Resource Kit.
• We Can
  This website provides Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition.
• Bright Futures
  Bright Futures is a national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.

Organizations Dedicated to Fighting Obesity

• Alliance for a Healthier Generation
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Heart Association
• American Dietetics Association
• American Obesity Association
• Commerical Alert: Childhood Prevention Campaign
• Future of Children Orgnaization
• Kids Health Organization
• Medline Plus
• National Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• North American Association for the Study of Obesity
• Obesity Action Coalition
• Obesity in America Organization
• Shape Up, Childhood Obesity Initiative
• Shaping America's Youth Organization
• US Department of Agriculture - My Plate
• World Health Organization

International Organizations Fighting Childhood Obesity

Below is a list of organizations dedicated to fighting obesity by country:

• ARGENTINA
• AUSTRALASIA
• AUSTRIA
• BELGIUM
• BRAZIL
• BULGARIA
• CANADA
• CHILE
• COLOMBIA
• CZECH REPUBLIC
• CUBA
• DENMARK
• ECUADOR
• FINLAND
• FRANCE
• GERMANY
• GREECE
• ISREAL
• ITALY
• JAPAN
• KOREA
• MALAYSIA
• MEXICO
• NETHERLANDS
• NEW ZEALAND
• NORWAY
• PERU
• PHILLIPPINES
• PORTUGAL
• POLAND
• PUERTO RICO
• ROMANIA
• SLOVAKIA
• SOUTH AFRICA
• SPAIN
• SWEDEN
• SWITZERLAND
• TURKEY
• UNITED KINGDOM
• URUGUAY
• USA
• YUGOSLAVIA

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