| Yum-O! is a non-profit organizaton that empowers kids and their families to imporve their relationship with food and cooking. By providing the tools to create easy, affordable and delicious meals, Yum-o! is changing the way America eats.
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The Nutrient Rich Foods Coalition is a partnership that brings together leading scientific researchers, communications experts and agricultural commodities. Our members are composed of 12 food commodity associations that represent the five basic MyPyramid food groups.
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| SmallStep Kids - is a fun, informational site sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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| NutritionData - provides complete nutritional information for any food or recipe!
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| Teaches kids about the importance of eating a colorful variety of fruits and veggies with fun games, coloring, puzzles, and rhymes.
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| KidsHealth - is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents — each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources — all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.
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| We Can! at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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| National Heart Lung and Blood Institute - Use this link for a serving size tipsheet. Watching portion size is just as important as the foods you choose to eat when trying to reduce your blood cholesterol level and maintain a healthy weight. Eating too much of even a low fat food can add unwanted saturated fat, cholesterol, and calories to your diet. Use these examples of everyday items to estimate portion sizes.
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| Rutgers Cooperative Extension - Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension helps the diverse population of New Jersey adapt to a rapidly changing society and improve their lives and communities through an educational process that uses science based knowledge. Through science-based educational programs, Rutgers Cooperative Extension truly enhances the quality of life for residents of New Jersey and brings the wealth of knowledge of the state university to local communities.
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| Find out the Basics, the benefits and how to take action to get you and your family moving more each day.
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| All Children Exercise Simultaneously |
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| Welcome to Project ACES, a child friendly web site. Project ACES was created by Len Saunders in 1989 as a method of motivating children to exercise. ACES takes place on the first Wednesday in May as part of National Physical Fitness and Sports Month along with National Physical Education Week. It has been labeled as "the world's largest exercise class" by the media. Since 1989, millions of children from all over the world exercise together to promote proper health and fitness habits. With the obesity epidemic facing the youth of the world, children's fitness plays a major role in fighting heart disease.
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| P.E. Central - The premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
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| VERB™ It’s what you do. was a national, multicultural, social marketing campaign coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Social marketing campaigns apply commercial marketing strategies to influence the voluntary behavior of target audiences to improve personal and social welfare.
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| Mayors Wellness Campaign - The mission of the Mayors Wellness Campaign is to equip mayors and other key leaders with the tools to develop and implement active-living initiatives in their communities with the ultimate goal of improving health and reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that come with the obesity problem in New Jersey.
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| NIH Launches We Can! City Program - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established the We Can! City Program to assist towns and cities across the nation in mobilizing their communities to prevent childhood overweight. We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity and Nutrition) is a national education program developed by the NIH, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to help youth ages 8-13 maintain a healthy weight.
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| Kids.gov - The official kids' portal for the U.S. government. It links to over 1,200 web pages from government agencies, schools, and educational organizations, all geared to the learning level and interest of kids.
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| Nutrition.gov - Provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers.
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| USDA - This government web site has a variety of helpful tools to help you and your family eat a healthful diet including meal plans.
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| Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - CDC celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2006. Since day one (July 1, 1946), CDC has been a leader in Public Health. Explore CDC’s past and learn how our Health Protection Goals have become an integral part of our present and future plans to improve Public Health.
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| Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
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| Institute of Medicine - The nation turns to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies for science-based advice on matters of biomedical science, medicine, and health. A nonprofit organization specifically created for this purpose as well as an honorific membership organization, the IOM was chartered in 1970 as a component of the National Academy of Sciences. The Institute provides a vital service by working outside the framework of government to ensure scientifically informed analysis and independent guidance. The IOM's mission is to serve as adviser to the nation to improve health. The Institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy-makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large.
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| Kaiser Family Foundation - Washington, DC – The Kaiser Family Foundation released a report today reviewing more than 40 studies on the role of media in the nation’s dramatically increasing rates of childhood obesity. The report concludes that the majority of scientific research indicates that children who spend the most time with media are more likely to be overweight. Contrary to common assumptions, however, most research reviewed for this report does not find that children’s media use displaces more vigorous physical activities. Therefore, the research indicates that there may be other factors related to children’s media use that are contributing to weight gain. In particular, children’s exposure to billions of dollars worth of food advertising and marketing in the media may be a key mechanism through which media contributes to childhood obesity.
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| School Wellness Policies - In the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, the U.S. Congress established a new requirement that all school districts with a federally-funded school meals program develop and implement wellness policies that address nutrition and physical activity by the start of the 2006-2007 school year [Section 204]. In response to requests for guidance on developing such policies, the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA, www.nanacoalition.org) convened a work group of more than 50 health, physical activity, nutrition, and education professionals from a variety of national and state organizations to develop a set of model policies for local school districts.
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| The Star Ledger - March 13, 2007, County increases effort to push health, wellness
Continuing its effort to raise visibility for the prevention of childhood obesity in Morris County, the Morris Area Wellness Partnership, or MAWP, has deemed May 10 "Move It Morris Day."
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