Annotation: This booklet, written for parents and older children, gives hints to parents on how to encourage their child to eat well and to enjoy exercising. It gives exercises for ages two to six and seven to seventeen to promote flexibility, strength, and endurance. It also tells how to prepare for the two President's Challenge tests, and lists the standards for the 50th and 85th percentile in curl-ups, shuttle run, one-mile run, pull-ups, flexed arm hang, and V-sit reach.

Contact: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Department W, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 738-H, Washington, DC 20201-0004, Telephone: (202) 690-9000 Fax: (202) 690-5211 Web Site: http://www.fitness.gov

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child health, Exercise, Physical activity, Physical fitness, Sports medicine

Annotation: This guide is designed to encourage Spanish-speaking adult women to increase current levels of physical activity, healthy eating, and to communicate with their health care providers to set goals for behavioral changes. It is a companion to the online guide, a set of 10 tip sheets which expand on the topics and provide practical information, ideas, and activities to help women adopt healthy behaviors to reach their goals.

Contact: HRSA Information Center, P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, VA 22116, Telephone: (888) 275-4772 Secondary Telephone: (877) 489-4772 Fax: (703) 821-2098 E-mail: ask@hrsa.gov Web Site: http://www.ask.hrsa.gov Available at no charge; also available from the website. Document Number: HRSA Info. Ctr. MCH00208.

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Keywords: Bright Futures, Consumer education materials, Exercise, Nutrition, Physical activity, Physical fitness, Spanish language materials, Women's health

Annotation: This kit, which is designed to help improve the health of young women, is meant to be used as a tool for raising awareness on campuses about a broad spectrum of women's health issues. The kit consists of a 27-minute videotape, a facilitator's guide, fact sheets, and promotional posters. Topic include alcohol abuse and dependence, cancer, depression, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, eating disorders, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, nutrition and exercise, osteoporosis, panic disorder, sexual harassment and violence, smoking, and substance abuse and dependence.

Contact: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 712E, Washington, DC 20201, Telephone: (800) 690-7650 Fax: (202) 205-2631 Web Site: http://www.womenshealth.gov/about-us/ Available at no charge.

Keywords: AIDS, Alcohol abuse, Alcohol dependence, Audiovisual materials, Cancer, Contraception, Depression, Eating disorders, HIV, Heart diseases, Nutrition, Osteoporosis, Panic disorder, Physical activity, Sexual harassment, Sexually transmitted diseases, Smoking, Substance abuse, Substance dependence, Videotapes, Violence, Women's health, Young women

Annotation: This kit includes fact sheets for Head Start families and health managers on a variety of health topics related to children. They include: active play; health literacy: a key to understanding and using health information; healthy breathing at home (asthma prevention); healthy eating; mental health; oral health; safety and injury prevention; and healthy active living.

Contact: National Center on Health, American Academy of Pediatrics, 141 Northwest Point Boulevard, Elk Grove, IL 60007-1098, Telephone: (888) 227-5125 E-mail: nchinfo@aap.org Web Site: http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/health Available from the web site.

• For Health Managers
• For Families

Keywords: Asthma, Child health, Child safety, Children, Consumer education materials, Head Start, Health literacy, Health promotion, Injury prevention, Mental health, Nutrition, Oral health, Physical activity, Play, Smoking

Annotation: This policy brief examines park access and park use by adolescents in California as a way to meet the recommendation that young people engage in 60 minutes of physical activity at least five days a week. The brief provides statistics on the number of California teens who fail to meet the physical activity guidelines, highlighting differences in behavior based on income and proximity to park facilities. The authors provide policy recommendations to invest in amenities and recreational programming at existing parks; develop agreements that allow community use of school grounds during off-hours, especially in low income neighborhoods; and target efforts to improve access and safety in low-income neighborhoods where there are few if any parks.

Contact: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 10960 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1550 , Los Angeles, CA 90024, Telephone: (310) 794-0909 Fax: (310) 794-2686 E-mail: chpr@ucla.edu Web Site: http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu Available from the web site.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, California, Guidelines, Physical activity, Policy development, Program improvement, Recreational facilities, Recreational services, State surveys

Annotation: This progress report provides information about Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), the goal of which is to bring many different groups together (including parents, teachers, health professionals, business owners, the faith community, and elected officials) to make it easier for all Americans to make healthy nutrition and physical activity choices. The report provides background on the problem and how to address it, the PHA framework, and methodology. PHA progress in the following areas is discussed: child care and early childhood, healthy food access, healthier choices in the marketplace, increasing physical activity, and engagement and verification.

Contact: Partnership for a Healthier America, Web Site: http://www.ahealthieramerica.org Available from the web site.

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Keywords: Child care, Children, Collaboration, Families, Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Parents, Physical activity, Prevention, Young children

Annotation: This support tool helps providers make physical activity and healthy eating recommendations to adult women based on their answers to the “Getting Started” questionnaire in the guide My Bright Future: Physical Activity and Health Eating for Adult Women. It provides a set of questions, assessing current behaviors on a typical day, based on the general recommendations and guidelines from the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2008 and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. The support tool refers to the guide and the wallet card for additional information.

Contact: HRSA Information Center, P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, VA 22116, Telephone: (888) 275-4772 Secondary Telephone: (877) 489-4772 Fax: (703) 821-2098 E-mail: ask@hrsa.gov Web Site: http://www.ask.hrsa.gov Available from the web site. Document Number: HRSA Info. Ctr. OWH00424.

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Keywords: Guidelines, Nutrition, Physical activity, Women's health

Annotation: This support tool helps providers make physical activity and healthy eating recommendations to adolescent girls and young women based on their answers to the “Getting Started” questionnaire in the guide My Bright Future: Physical Activity and Health Eating for Adolescent Girls and Young Women. It provides a set of questions that assess current behaviors on a typical day, based on the general recommendations and guidelines from the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2008 and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. The support tool refers to the guide and the wallet card for additional information.

Contact: HRSA Information Center, P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, VA 22116, Telephone: (888) 275-4772 Secondary Telephone: (877) 489-4772 Fax: (703) 821-2098 E-mail: ask@hrsa.gov Web Site: http://www.ask.hrsa.gov Available from the web site. Document Number: HRSA Info. Ctr. OWH00426.

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Keywords: Adolescent females, Guidelines, Nutrition, Physical activity, Young women

Annotation: This fact sheet offers child care providers information on how to reduce the risk for SIDS among infants in their care. The fact sheet discusses particular SIDS risks for infants in child care, provides basic facts about the incidence and causes of SIDS, offers information about what child care providers can do to reduce the incidence of SIDS, describes safe sleep environments and practices and tummy time, and provides a safe sleep policy. [Funded in part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau] Also available in Spanish.

Contact: American Academy of Pediatrics, 141 Northwest Point Boulevard, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098, Telephone: (847) 434-4000 Fax: (847) 434-8000 Web Site: http://www.aap.org Available from the website. Document Number: HRSA Info. Ctr. SIDS00033 (English); HRSA Info. Ctr. SIDS00040 (Spanish).

• English Version
• Spanish Version

Keywords: Child care, Consumer education materials, Infant health, Physical activity, Prevention, SIDS, Sleep position, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This booklet for parents offers information about how to help families learn healthy habits, healthy eating and physical activity. Topics discussed include how healthy eating and physical activity help children, how children's eating and activity habits are formed, what children should eat, how to help children eat better, how to help children be more active, and how to help overweight children. Information on serving sizes, sources of calcium, and snack ideas is also provided. Resources and suggestions for additional reading are included, as well. The booklet concludes with a tear-off checklist for encouraging healthy eating and physical activity.

Contact: Weight-control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, One Win Way, Bethesda, MD 20892-3665, Telephone: (877) 946-4627 Fax: (202) 828-1028 E-mail: WIN@info.niddk.nih.gov Web Site: http://win.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm Available at no charge; also available from the website. Document Number: NIH Pub no. 04-4955.

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Keywords: Body weight, Child health, Child nutrition, Consumer education materials, Food habits, Obesity, Physical activity, Snacks