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• Active at Any Size

  This booklet addresses the special challenges for very large people who are physically active and provides tips and ideas to become more active and healthier—no matter what your size.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Alliance for a Healthier Generation

  Registration Required

  These programs aim to assist parents in helping children manage their weight and live healthy lifestyles with specific activities and milestones. En español

  Healthier Generation

• America on the Move

  Registration Required

  American on the Move is an evidence-based nonprofit dedicated to helping you take small steps and make small lifestyle changes for a healthier way of life.  This website will help you improve your health and quality of life through healthful eating and active living.  Includes an online community, articles on making healthy choices, and more. En español

  America on the Move (AOM)

• BodyWorks

  This program is designed to help parents and caregivers of adolescents ages 9 to 13 improve family eating and activity habits. The program toolkit focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. En español

  Office on Women's Health (OWH)

• Diabetes Families

  This resource provides tools for behavior change and information on how to create new healthy habits as well as a network to connect and share with other concerned families.

  Diabetes Families

• Let's Move

  This initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama, aims to eliminate childhood obesity and create a healthy start for children by empowering parents and caregivers, increasing physical activity, providing healthy food in schools, and improving access to healthy, affordable food in every part of the country.

  Let's Move

• Make Your Calories Count

  This interactive learning program helps you plan a healthful diet using nutrition labels while managing calorie intake.

  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• My Fitness Plan

  These three worksheets for young women can help you figure out which types of exercise you'll enjoy most and how to get started, stay motivated, and free up time for fitness.

  Center for Young Women's Health at Children's Hospital Boston

• MyFoodAdvisor

  Registration Required

  This online tracking tool lets you track what you eat to manage your diabetes and prevent the onset of complications.  Explore nearly 5,000 foods and find recipes and healthy alternatives to improve your meals. En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• The Good Health Club

  This toolkit helps educate parents and children on ways to change to a healthier lifestyle and diet through a 5-2-1-0 message. The Good Health Club campaign promotes healthy choices and behaviors in children through fun, effective, age-appropriate communications. Some materials are available in Spanish.

  BlueCross and BlueShield Association

• The Power of Choice

  This activity guide for after-school program leaders provides quick, simple things to do with kids to help them develop skills for making healthful physical activity and eating choices.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service (FNS)

• The President's Challenge

  Registration Required

  The President’s Challenge helps people of all ages and abilities increase their physical activity and improve their fitness through research-based information, easy-to-use tools, and friendly motivation.

  President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

• Tips for Teens: Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

  This easy-to-read, bilingual Spanish and English tip sheet encourages teens to lower their risk for diabetes by being active, making health food choices, and losing weight if they are overweight. En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)