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Physical Activity Resources
This growing collection of resources can help you engage parents in the effort to get kids moving more. The resources here include ideas for parents and caregivers to be more active with their children, information on why physical activity is so important, and more.
- Action for Healthy Kids: Family Corner
Parents, caregivers and other family members can make simple changes that go a long way in helping their children learn to eat right and be active every day at home and school. Action For Healthy Kids provides these articles, eNewsletters, and more. Resources include contributions from the American Academy of Pediatrics and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
- Ask the Expert: Move More with Kids
- Eat Smart. Play Hard. Active Lifestyle.
This website by the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service is specifically designed for parents and caregivers to provide information on how to eat better, be more physically active and be a role model for kids. The site provides resources for getting started, meal tips, and ideas for how to increase physical activity in your family life.
- Increasing Physical Activity in Communities: What Really Works?
- Let's Move! For Parents
This resource, from First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! program, provides five simple steps to improving family health. Tips for physical activity include limiting screen time, ways family members can be active together, and ideas for how to get involved in school health.
- Make Physical Activity a Part of Your Family\'s Routine
This resource, from First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! program, provides tips and suggestions for helping families to become more physically active.
- Parents' Guide to an Active Lifestyle
- Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
In 2008, the Federal Government issued its first-ever Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. They describe the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans. This website provides tips and resources to help you meet those guidelines.
- We Can! Get Active
This resource from the National Institutes of Health provides information about why and how youth and families can get more physically active. The relationship between activity and nutrition is described, and there are links to additional articles that can help families move more.
- Youth Physical Activity: The Role of Families
This four page handout from the Centers for Disease Control provides information for families on the types, duration, and intensity of appropriate activities for youth. It also cites statistics on youth physical activity and provides tips for how parents and adult caregivers can help youth get more physical activity into their routines.
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