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CWH Tools & Materials	download	available from publisher	Spanish	Asian languages
Asian Language pamphlets: Nutrition and Physical Activity	a			aCambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Vietnamese
California Obesity Prevention Initiative Website and Toolkit	a
Children & Weight Project Materials		a
Fit Families Novela Series: For Parents Who Want the Best for Their Families		a	a
Guidelines for Collecting Heights and Weights on Children and Adolescents in School Settings	a
Happy, Healthy & Well	a		a
Let's Get Moving!: Working Together to Promote Active Lifestyles in Young Children:	a(print materials)	a(Full kit)	a
Nutrition Education in School Food Service	a
Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences		a
Obesity Prevention Resource Kit	a
Policy in Action: A Guide to Implementing Your Local School Wellness Policy		a
Taking Action Together	a
CWH Reviews, Papers & Policy Statements	download	available from publisher	Spanish	Asian languages
Cafeteria Facilities, Often Overlooked, Yet Key to Student Nutrition and Health	a
Disparities in Obesity: Prevalence, Causes and Solutions	a
Dollars and Sense: The Financial Impact of Selling Healthier School Foods	a
Focusing on TV: Obesity Prevention for "Tween-Age" Girls	a
A Framework for Understanding Food Insecurity: An Anti-Hunger Approach A Food Systems Approach	a
Frequently Asked Questions About Sports Drinks	a		a
Improving Children's Academic Performance, Health and Quality of Life: A Top Policy Commitment in Response to the Children's Obesity and Health Crisis in California	a
Marketing Foods and Beverages: Why Licensed Commercial Characters Should Not Be Used to Sell Healthy Products to Children	a
Methods of Calculating Deaths Attributable to Obesity	a
Obesity in Latino Communities: Prevention, Principles and Action	a
Pediatric Overweight: A Review of the Literature	a
Position of the American Dietetic Association: Individual-, Family-, School-, and Community-Based Interventions for Pediatric Overweight	a
Potential Impact of Menu Labeling of Fast Foods in California	a
Preventing obesity: What should we eat?		a
Prevention of Childhood Overweight -- What Should Be Done?	a
Prevention of type 2 diabetes in youth: Etiology, promising interventions and recommendations	a
Weighing the risks and benefits of BMI reporting in the school setting	a

 

CWH Tools & Materials

Asian language pamphlets on nutrition for parents and families now available!

The risk of obesity among Asian-American children increases the longer they are in the United States. Agencies and heath organizations serving this population have expressed the need for educational materials focused on helping children achieve healthy weights.

Materials, currently available as downloads from our website, are written in Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hmong and English. We anticipate developing materials in Khmer and Lao.

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California Obesity Prevention Initiative Website and Toolkit

Download the Do More-Watch Less Toolkit, a cutting edge effort to help pre-teens incorporate more screen-free activities into their lives. Designed for and field tested with "tweens" (ages 10-14,) and after school program staff, the toolkit includes step-by-step instructions and handouts that guide "tweens" through hands-on activities including:

• tracking the time they typically spend in front of a screen,
• embarking on a challenge to go screen-free for up to a week, and
• setting a goal to engage in no more than 2 hours of screen-based activities per day
• celebrating their efforts to reduce their screen-time with a party

Developed by the California Obesity Prevention Initiative, a program of the California Department of Health Services, the California Obesity Prevention Initiative website isdesigned to assist community activists, leaders, and public health professionals in the fight against obesity. The site provides the latest guidelines, data, and resources for combating this epidemic, including existing policies and how you might work to incorporate healthy activity and eating policies in your community. New information and resources added often.

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Children & Weight Project Materials

ANR Communication Services
6701 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA 94608
phone: (510)642-2431 or (800)994-8849, fax (510) 643-5470
email: anrcatalog@ucdavis.edu, Download Center ANR products brochure

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Children and Weight: What Health Professionals Can Do Training Kit

This kit contains everything you need to conduct in-service training for health professionals on diagnosing, assessing, and treating pediatric obesity. Pilot-tested with over 500 health professionals, it has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.

Children and Weight: What Communities Can Do

This resource kit is a how-to guide offering technical assistance to community leaders who want to launch a local task force dedicated to reducing childhood overweight.

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Fit Families Novela Series: For Parents Who Want the Best for Their Families Publication 3496, $65.00
Fit Families Novela series (30 extra fotonovelas/10 of each): 3496A, $30.00

ANR Communication Services
6701 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA 94608
phone: (510)642-2431 or (800)994-8849, fax (510) 643-5470
email: anrcatalog@ucdavis.edu, Download Center ANR products brochure

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This innovative bilingual resource kit is created for health professionals working with parents who have young children. The video and print fotonovelas are designed to stimulate discussion on how to create healthy snacks, increase physical activity, and limit TV watching. Realistic characters, who are struggling to make improvements in their families' health habits, help parents understand how small changes can make a big difference. Kit includes:

• A series of three 12-minute videonovelas: Marisa's Big Move - a story about limiting time watching TV and videos, Marta's Delicious Snacks - one mother's story about the rewards of creating healthy snacks, and Christina's Day of Discovery - a family's story about increasing exercise
• 10 each of the three Fotonovelas that can be used in combination with the video novelas
• A Leader's Guide for educators with 3 simple lesson plans on how to incorporate the video and fotonovelas into existing curricula

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Guidelines for Collecting Heights and Weights on Children and Adolescents in School Settings

It may sometimes be necessary to weigh and measure children in school settings.  In these situations, it is important to obtain accurate information.  At the same time, it is important to avoid encouraging unrealistically thin body types and stigmatizing children as “fat”, “heavy” or “skinny”.  Consider the question, “How can this task be done in a way that will promote body satisfaction, a positive body image, and high self-esteem in youngsters of all sizes and shapes?” These guidelines were developed to help you measure students in a way that is sensitive and supportive as well as accurate.

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Happy, Healthy & Well: Worksite Wellness in Child Care Centers Promotes Healthy Habits in Staff, Children, and Families

Happy, Healthy & Well was developed for use with child care and early childhood education staff to bring information and support for adopting healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors in the child care work environment. Research has shown that staff is more likely promote healthy habits for the children and families they work with, if they have adopted these behaviors themselves. Because many young children spend a significant part of each day in a preschool and/or child care setting, there is rich opportunity for their caretakers and teachers to model healthy nutrition and physical activity attitudes and behaviors throughout the day. This project was funded in part by USDA's Food Stamp NutritionProgram. Core components of the year-long Happy, Healthy & Well program for child care and early childhood education staff inlcude:

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Let's Get Moving!: Working Together to Promote Active Lifestyles in Young Children

ANR Communication Services
6701 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA 94608
phone: (510)642-2431 or (800)994-8849, fax (510) 643-5470
email: anrcatalog@ucdavis.edu, Download Center ANR products brochure

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Download selected Let's Get Moving! materials:

• Activities Guide, English, Spanish
• Activitiy Cards, English, Spanish
• User's Guide, English

This exciting new resource kit for childcare providers, professionals, and parents is designed to introduce quick and easy ways to incorporate physical activity into the daily routines of children ages 2-7.  The kit highlights ways to promote activity in 5-10 minute intervals throughout the day. Video and activity cards emphasize the importance of being physically active in increasing confidence, self-esteem, problem solving and social skills, and in building lifelong healthy and active habits. 

Nutrition Education in School Food Service Tool Kit

For most children, school is the largest source of meals eaten outside of the home.  School food service offers an ideal setting for experiential learning around food for children and for engaging parents in modeling healthy eating habits at home.  The goal of the Nutrition Education in School Food Service Tool Kit is to take advantage of the potential of school food service settings to positively influence children’s eating – both at school and at home.  The tool kit is designed for use in elementary schools, particularly those serving low-income populations.  Activities are included for food service staff to use in school as well as for parents to use at home.

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Obesity Prevention Resource Kit

The Center's Obesity Prevention Resource Kit, containing informaiton on obesity in California, was compiled for the Governor's Summit on Health, Nutrition and Obesity, held on September 15, 2005. A select group of leaders from multiple sectors including food industry, health plans, public education, real estate development, transportation, and parks and recreation joined other health and community groups as well as celebrities like Lance Armstrong and Dr. Phil, to present ways to reduce obesity rates in California. We encourage people to draw on the data and information compiled in the Obesity Prevention Resource Kit for their own research, advocacy, or programming efforts.

For information on national obesity trends, visit the CDC's Overweight and Obesity: Childhood Overweight pages.

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Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences

The Center for Weight and Health is pleased to announce the publication of Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences . Available through CRC Press, this book provides researchers, health practitioners and policy makers alike with the latest evidence about this modern-day epidemic. Included in the book are:

- A synopsis of the diet most likely to protect against the development of obesity
- The roles of growth and developmental periods in obesity development
- The influence of parenting practices on children's weight
- Information on the relationship between each aspect of dietary intake and obesity

The role of 26 different foods, beverages and eating behaviors as well as eight developmental periods in the human life cycle are described. The dietary factors examined include the macronutrients (the different types of carbohydrate, protein and fat), vitamins and minerals, specific types of foods and beverages, snack and meal patterns, portion size, parenting practices, breastfeeding and more. Each developmental period is examined in the context of the likelihood of obesity development. For each dietary factor and developmental period, four lines of evidence are examined: changes over time in dietary consumption and behaviors, plausible mechanisms, observational studies and prevention trials.

The book also contains 38 tables that summarize observational studies, 38 graphs depicting trends in dietary intake, and nine tables that summarize prevention trials. A synopsis of the latest research on obesity investigates all major lines of evidence and clarifies common misconceptions while identifying behaviors to target and the dietary factors that show the most promise for prevention.

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Policy in Action: A Guide to Implementing Your Local School Wellness Policy

California Project LEAN and the Center for Weight and Health are pleased to announce a new resource to develop, implement, and evaluate your school wellness policy. This user-friendly guide is designed to serve as a roadmap for implementing school nutrition and physical activity policies, including local wellness policies. The Guide includes:

Easy-to-use worksheets

This guide can be purchased or downloaded from the California Project Lean website.

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Taking Action Together

Taking Action Together (TAT) is a YMCA-based program designed to reduce type 2 diabetes risk among low-income overweight African American children, 9-11 years of age.  This multi-disciplinary project was developed in collaboration with experts in nutrition, exercise physiology, public health, psychology, medicine, education, and cultural sensitivity.  It involved academics and practitioners from numerous universities and community organizations. Sample lessons are available for download.

CWH Reviews, Papers & Policy Statements