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 Childhood Obesity Publications and Resources
- Action Kit on Combating Childhood Obesity - This action kit for municipal leaders offers a broad range of strategies cities can use to promote physical activity, healthy eating, and access to healthy foods to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.
- Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance is a comprehensive national strategy that recommends specific actions for families, schools, industry, communities, and government.
- Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs is a guide to relevant federal funding sources and other strategies of financing childhood obesity prevention programs.
- ICMA's Active Living and Social Equity guide describes how local managers, department heads, and local government staff can design healthy communities for all residents.
- Schools and Junk Food: Obesity, Politics & Money - This article is a reprint from the Winter 2005 edition of City Magazine, the official publication of the Kentucky League of Cities. It describes Kentucky's legislative battle to get junk food out of public schools.
- Physical Education and Physical Activity for Children and Teens - This article from the January 2006 issue of Legisbrief, a publication of the National Conference of State Legislatures, focuses on state requirements for physical education.
- "What's for Lunch? When's Recess? The Fight Against Obesity Makes Its Way Into Schools," is an article from the December 2005 issue of State Legislatures, which focuses on strategies to respond to childhood obesity.
- "Leading...To Promote Health and Wellness: Creating Community Through People, Parks and Programs," published by the California Park and Recreation Society and the National Alliance for Youth Sports, recommends approaches that parks and recreation departments can take to combat youth obesity.
Organization Websites
- Active Living Leadership - The YEF Institute participates in the Active Living Leadership partnership, an initiative that seeks to support government leaders as they create and promote policies, programs, and places to enable active living.
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) - A supporter of the YEF Institute's obesity program, RWJF is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care.
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