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Sponsored by the Nestle Family, The Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives program was developed as a resource for educators to help support your ongoing efforts to teach students about being healthy. Parents, after-school programs, and caregivers can also use the materials in the program.

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Not all dietary fats are bad! Do you know how to select healthy fats? The terminology can be confusing, so we've taken the guess work out for you. Learn about making good choices including healthy fats and oils.

This website is all about educating families about nutrition and exercise in a fun way. They provide fun, interactive online games for kids that are designed to teach through animation, exploration, and decision-making.

Live Healthy Iowa brings together friends, families, businesses and communities in team-based wellness challenges designed to promote positive lifestyle change. These challenges are proven to change the culture of a company or community, one team at a time!

At the heart of good health is good nutrition. Find recipes, healthy cooking tips, secrets to heart-smart shopping and much more.

You've probably read about it in newspapers and seen it on the news: in the United States, the number of obese children and teens has continued to rise over the past two decades.1 You may wonder: Why are doctors and scientists troubled by this trend? And as parents or other concerned adults, you may also ask: What steps can we take to help prevent obesity in our children? This page provides answers to some of the questions you may have and provides you with resources to help you keep your family healthy.

The Teen Health and the Media Web site is a virtual meeting place for teens, parents, educators, health professionals, and others who share a strong commitment to teen health. Using the power of media literacy, we encourage young people to make healthy choices and to interact with the media both as critical viewers and creators.

The concept behind the Exercise US program is to motivate children to become physically fit and healthy by making fitness fun. Children will enjoy the concept of participating in 10 continuous hours of fitness from coast to coast. Schools or organizations that sign up will partake in 15 minutes of exercise at their location. When their 15 minute time allotment is over, they have completed their portion of the program. At that moment, in a new location, the next exercise session will begin, which could potentially be in a different state. The program will begin at 8:00 a.m. eastern time, and finish at 3:00 p.m. pacific time

The aim of the K-12 PE program is to enable individuals to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to lead an active, healthy lifestyle. This website serves as a database for teacher resources.

Play the Longevity Game and calculate how long you can expect to live based on life insurance industry research. This would be a great supplement to a lesson dealing with "wellness" issues to stress the importance of changing behaviors to support a healthy lifestyle.

LearntobeHealthy.org is an online health science learning site designed to help educators and parents communicate important health concepts to students. The site contains comprehensive lesson plans, interactive games and activities, webquests and more. The goal of the site is to inspire students - and their families - to make healthy choices that will last a lifetime.

With 20,000 members, the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) is the largest organization of professionals supporting and assisting professionals involved in physical education, recreation, fitness, sport and coaching, dance, health education and promotion, and all specialties related to achieving a healthy and active lifestyle.

CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) is working to implement policy and environmental strategies to make healthy eating and active living accessible and affordable for everyone.

Resources related to teen health, weight, body image.

The ultimate in physical education OER database. The go to place for any PE related resource and news.

In addition to the Fitness library that provides visitors with a variety of short articles about health and physical activity, tips for purchasing fitness equipment, etc., this site provides an enormous amount of links to Health and physical activity links that may prove beneficial to a PE teacher.

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number calculated from a person's weight and height. BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.