Nutrition & Healthy Weights

Organizations:

• Alberta Milk
• American Dietetic Association
• Dietitians of Canada
• Health Canada Food and Nutrition
  • The Canadian Nutrient Data System
• Healthy Weight Network (USA)

Resources:

• Breakfast For Learning; Canadian Living Foundation (Reports)
• Beyond Pickles and Ice Cream 4th Edition 2005 Presentation - (pdf format - 7,040 KB) - To order a Beyond Pickles & Ice Cream Manual click here - Order Form 2005- pdf
• DES CORNICHONS ET DE LA CRÉME GLACÉE (Beyond Pickles and Ice Cream: Révisé en 2005 -French Pdf Version - 4.13MB)
• Childhood Obesity: An Environmental Scan Among Health Region Partners of The Southern Alberta Child & Youth Health Network
• Dial-a-Dietitian Nutrition Information Society of British Columbia
• Eat Right Be Active (Healthy Eating and Active Living guides)
  Healthy Eating and Active Living guides:
  • The guide for children ages 3-5
  • The guide for children ages 6-8
  • Healthy Eating for Healthy Aging
• Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide
  Canada's Food Guide Now Available in 10 Additional Languages
• Food Safety Info Line
• Healthy Measures: A Tool Kit for Promoting Healthy Weights in Your Community (requires you to register)
• Mission Nutrition? (a site for Teachers, Students & Parents)
• NIH Clinical Centre - National Institutes of Health (Facts About Dietary Supplements)
• Nutrition PI (K-3) - Alberta Milk
• Nutrition Resource Centre

Obesity Related Resources and Articles:

• A Policy-Based School Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity (PEDIATRICS Vol. 121 No. 4 April 2008)
• Addressing Obesity In Canada. A Think Tank on Selected Policy Research Priorities (2005)
• Battling obesity more than simply telling Canadians to "eat right and exercise" - The Health of Canadians: Promoting Healthy Weights
• Best Practices for the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: A Focus on Immigrants New to Industrialized Countries This project was led by Dr. Mary Flynn of the Calgary Health Region.
• Canadian Community Health Survey: Obesity among children and adults (2004)
  • Measured Obesity: Adult obesity in Canada
  • Measured Obesity: Overweight Canadian children and adolescents
• The Canadian Obesity Epidemic (June 2005)
• Canadian Obesity Network
• Captive Kids: Selling Obesity At Schools
  An Action Guide to Stop the Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages in School (USA)
• Childhood Obesity Prevention: A Case Study in Setting a Comprehensive Agenda for Healthy Living powerpoint presentation prepared by Dr. Shiriki Kamanyika (1907 KB)
• Community Prevention of Childhood Obesity (Calgary Health Region)
• Connecting, integrating and enhancing your work in obesity reduction and the promotion of healthy weights - O-Net
• Dietary Fat and Children (Nutrition Recommendations Update)
• Federation Policy Statement On Obesity (June 2005)
• Food Marketing and Advertising Directed at Children and Adolescents: Implications for Overweight
• Helping Without Harming: Kids, Eating, Weight and Health
• Healthy Today, Healthy Tomorrow? Findings from the National Population Health Survey Trends in Weight Change Among Canadian Adults: Evidence from the 1996/1997 to 2004/2005 National Population Health Survey
• Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives
• It's Not About the Weight: It's About the Person (pdf)
• Interventions related to obesity
• Obesity in Alberta: How Much?
• Obesity: the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children (UK Guidelines Dec 2006)
• Out of balance : marketing of soda, candy, snacks and fast foods drowns out healthful messages. (USA 2005)
• Overweight, Obesity, and Quality of Life Among Adolescents Pediatrics 2005; Vol. 115(2): 340-347
• Prevention of Childhood Obesity: Can school programs make a difference?
• The Politics of Obesity: Confronting Our National Eating (Video)

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