Organizations:

• Alberta Milk [1]
• American Dietetic Association [2]
• Dietitians of Canada [3]
• Health Canada Food and Nutrition [4]
  • Canadian Nutrient File [5]
• Healthy Weight Network [6] (USA)

Resources:

• Breakfast For Learning; Canadian Living Foundation (Reports) [7]
• Beyond Pickles and Ice Cream [7] 4th Edition 2005 Presentation - (pdf format - 7,040 KB) - To order a Beyond Pickles & Ice Cream Manual click here - Order Form 2005 [7]- pdf
• DES CORNICHONS ET DE LA CRÉME GLACÉE [7](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 [8]
• Dial-a-Dietitian Nutrition Information Society of British Columbia [9]
• Eat Right Be Active [10] (Nutrition Resource Centre - Healthy Eating and Active Living guides)
  • The guide for children ages 3-5 [11]
  • The guide for children ages 6-8 [12]
  • Healthy Eating for Healthy Aging [13]
• Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide [14]
  Canada's Food Guide Now Available in 10 Additional Languages
• Food Safety Info Line [15]
• Healthy Measures: A Tool Kit for Promoting Healthy Weights in Your Community [16] (requires you to register)
• Mission Nutrition? [17] (a site for Teachers, Students & Parents from Kellogg Company)
• NIH Clinical Centre - National Institutes of Health (Facts About Dietary Supplements) [18]
• Nutrition PI (K-3) [19] - Alberta Milk
• Nutrition Resource Centre [20] (Ontario)
• NuVal Nutritional Scoring System [21] (USA)
  This comprehensive rating system measures a food’s nutritional value on a scale of one to 100 based on a complex set of factors that includes levels of fiber, folate, vitamins A, C, D, E, B12, B6, potassium, calcium, zinc, omega 3 fatty acids, carotenoids, magnesium, iron, saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, sugar, cholesterol, fat quality, protein quality, energy density and glycemic load.

Obesity Related Resources and Articles:

• A Policy-Based School Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity [22] (PEDIATRICS Vol. 121 No. 4 April 2008)
• Addressing Obesity In Canada. A Think Tank on Selected Policy Research Priorities [22](2005)
• Battling obesity more than simply telling Canadians to "eat right and exercise" - The Health of Canadians: Promoting Healthy Weights [23]
• Best Practices for the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children: A Focus on Immigrants New to Industrialized Countries [24] 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 [25]
  • Measured Obesity: Overweight Canadian children and adolescents [26]
• The Canadian Obesity Epidemic [26] (June 2005)
• Canadian Obesity Network [27]
• Captive Kids: Selling Obesity At Schools [28]
  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 [28] powerpoint presentation prepared by Dr. Shiriki Kamanyika (1907 KB)
• Community Prevention of Childhood Obesity [29] (Calgary Health Region)
• Federation Policy Statement On Obesity [29](June 2005)
•    Food Marketing and Advertising Directed at Children and Adolescents: Implications for Overweight [30]
• Helping Without Harming: Kids, Eating, Weight and Health [31]
• Healthy Today, Healthy Tomorrow? [31]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 [31]
• It's Not About the Weight: It's About the Person [32] (pdf)
• Interventions related to obesity [33]
• Obesity in Alberta: How Much? [33]
• Obesity: the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children [34](UK Guidelines Dec 2006)
• Out of balance : marketing of soda, candy, snacks and fast foods drowns out healthful messages [35]. (USA 2005)
• Overweight, Obesity, and Quality of Life Among Adolescents [36]Pediatrics 2005; Vol. 115(2): 340-347
• Prevention of Childhood Obesity: Can school programs make a difference? [36]
• The Politics of Obesity: Confronting Our National Eating [37] (Video)

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