Eating Better

• Nutrition Basics: Essential information from the CDC
• Fruits & Veggies — More Matters: Getting more fruits and vegetables each day
• My Pyramid: The new USDA Food Pyramid customizes to your lifestyle
• My Pyramid for Preschoolers: Diet and growth for your young child
• Nutritional information for seniors: Eating well and shopping wisely
• American Dietetic Association: Information from food and nutrition experts

How to Lose and Manage Weight

• Weighing Right for Your Height: Setting your weight target
• Health tools from Healthfinder.gov Activity and menu planners

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.
• Recipes for healthy eating with your favorite foods.
• Folic acid is an important nutritional supplement for pregnant women.

Menu Planning and Recipes

• MyPyramid.gov: Customized food pyramid for your lifestyle from the USDA
• MyPyramid Tracker: On-line dietary and physical activity tracker
• My Food Advisor: Food and diet information, tracking and menu planning for diabetics or anyone wanting to lose weight (from the American Diabetes Association)
• What’s on a Food Label?: Understanding nutrition when you shop.

• Interactive Menu Planner: Calculate calories consumed, determine your basic nutritional needs, and more.
• Brown Bagging With Style: Nutritious lunches on the go
• Meals for Meetings: Add healthy food and physical activity to your meetings
• Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes: Learn to cook favorite traditional Latino dishes in a heart healthy way with this bilingual cookbook. (PDF)

• Menu Planning for Child Care Operators: Guidelines and checklist for planning nutritious meals for children

Professionals and Teachers

• Eat Smart, Play Hard: Interactive games, handouts, and information for children, parents, and teachers
• Action for Healthy Kids: Includes the Game On! Wellness Challenge
• Bright Futures: Health promotion and disease prevention resource for nursing, health care professionals, and educators
• Make Your Calories Count: Interactive learning program for food labels and diet planning
• Portion Distortion: Presentations from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Test Your Food Label Knowledge: On-line food label quiz
• Vending Machine Products: Guidance from the state Office of Healthy Schools
• Teaching materials from MyPyramid.gov

• Healthy People 2010: Steps to good health and a long life
• BodyWorks: A healthy eating and physical activity toolkit
• Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit: A guide for local and state leaders working to create healthy communities and prevent childhood obesity
• FNIC Resource List: From the USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Cultural and Ethnic Nutrition Education: Materials from the USDA
• HealthFinder.gov: Comprehensive source for reliable health information on-line

• 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
• The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation 2010: Recommendations on nutrition and physical activity, school wellness policies, child care, improving access to fruits and vegetables, reducing junk food marketing to children, and supporting walking and biking infrastructure.
• Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report, 2008: Science relating physical activity to a variety of health outcomes, with toolkits and guidelines, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Trust for America's Health Obesity Report 2009: Obesity rates compared nationwide

Heart Health

• DASH Eating Plan: Dietary approaches to stop hypertension
• Cut Down on Salt and Sodium/Como Menos Sal y Sodio: Help reduce high blood pressure
• Health Risk Calculator Translate your blood pressure numbers into health effects

Diabetes and Kidney Disease

• National Diabetes Education Program: For adults, parents and children
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases General information and research
• My Food Advisor: A carbohydrate and calorie-counting tool to help manage your diabetes (from the American Diabetes Association)
• Diabetes Control for Life Diabetes self-management program

Games and Activities

• Eat Smart, Play Hard: Interactive games, handouts, and information for children, parents, and teachers
• Eat Smart, Play Hard Healthy Lifestyles: Becoming a good nutrition and exercise role model for your family

Find out more
For more information about nutrition, contact our Nutrition Services division at 601-576-7941.