Childhood Obesity Resources

Visit the links listed below for additional information about childhood overweight and obesity.

Prevalence

• CDC: Overweight and Obesity
  http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/
  A resource page by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Mayo Clinic: Childhood Obesity
  http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-obesity/basics/definition/CON-20027428
  A resource page by the Mayo Clinic

• The State of Obesity
  http://www.stateofobesity.org/childhood/
  A resource page with state by state prevalance, by the Trust for America’s Health & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

• Voices for Healthy Kids
  http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Advocate/Voices-for-Healthy-Kids_UCM_453195_SubHomePage.jsp
  American Heart Association in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Prevention and Intervention

The links below provide national resources that focus on the prevention of childhood obesity and/or intervention strategies.

• Bright Futures
  http://brightfutures.aap.org
  National health promotion and disease prevention initiative developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics

• Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
  Recommendations from the Office of the Surgeon General, revised in 2007

• Evidence Based Policy and Environmental Change Strategies for Obesity Prevention: Strategies with National Consensus and Examples from the 50 States
  2010 compendium of effective obesity prevention strategies being implemented across the country, compiled by CLOCC with input from the Chicago Department of Public Health

• Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
  http://iom.edu/Reports/2004/Preventing-Childhood-Obesity-Health-in-the-Balance.aspx
  2004 report by the Institute of Medicine

• Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?
  http://iom.edu/Reports/2006/Progress-in-Preventing-Childhood-Obesity–How-Do-We-Measure-Up.aspx
  The Institute of Medicine’s 2006 follow-up to Health in the Balance

• Strategic Plan for Obesity Research
  http://obesityresearch.nih.gov/About/strategic-plan.htm
  Report by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), updated plan scheduled to be available by December of 2010

• Tools for Parents, Teachers, Students, and Community Leaders to Eliminate Childhood Obesity
  http://www.apha.org/programs/resources/obesity/obesityparenttools.htm
  Compiled by the American Public Health Association (APHA)