EatingWell http://www.eatingwell.com/
EatingWell magazine is a division of the EatingWell Media Group, a multimedia company whose mission is to deliver the information and inspiration people need to make healthy eating a way of life.
Sesame Street "Healthy Habits for Life" http://www.sesameworkshop.org/initiatives/health/healthyhabits
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation http://www.healthyweightcommit.org
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, which was launched last October, is a CEO-led organization and is a national, multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity – especially childhood obesity – by 2015. It’s a first-of-its kind coalition that brings together more than 80 retailers, food and beverage manufacturers, sporting goods, insurance, trade associations and NGOs. The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation will promote ways to help people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out. It focuses on three critical areas – the marketplace, the workplace and schools.
Cartoon Network's® "Get Animated" http://www.getanimated.com/
Cartoon Network's Get Animated is a place where kids can Get Active, Get Healthy and Get Involved with the world's best cartoons! Get Animated empowers kids to take action with information and programs on TV, on the web and in the community. From Rescuing Recess to Trick or Treat for UNICEF, it's a broad program that impacts kids' lives. Get Animated is all about kids getting out and making a difference.
American Dietetic Association (ADA) http://www.eatright.org/
The American Dietetic Association is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. ADA is committed to improving the nation's health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.
Batter Up Kids! http://www.batterupkids.com/
Since 1991 Batter Up Kids has built its business on the commitment of teaching kids to cook in a safe, positive learning environment. Their cooking programs get kids actively involved the kitchen by offering fun-filled cooking activities combined with wholesome creative recipes.
Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) http://www.healthykidschallenge.com/
Healthy Kids Challenge is a nationally recognized program offering a multi-level approach of assistance to schools, programs, and communities to create healthy eating and physical activity opportunities everywhere kids live, learn, work and play...
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's "We Can!" http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/
We Can!TM or "Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition" is a national program designed for families and communities to help children maintain a healthy weight. The program, which is offered by the National Heart Lund and Blood Institute, focuses on three important behaviors: improved food choices, increased physical activity and reduced screen time.
School Nutrition Association http://www.schoolnutrition.org/
The School Nutrition Association is a national, nonprofit professional organization representing more than 55,000 members who provide high-quality, low-cost meals to students across the country.
Share Our Strength http://www.strength.org/
Share Our Strength is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. The organization strives to weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play.
Texas Dept of Agriculture's "Square Meals" http://www.squaremeals.org/
The Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM Campaign was launched by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in 2000. The Campaign encourages and teaches children, parents, and caregivers to eat healthy and be physically active everyday. Eat Smart. Play Hard.TM offers resources and tools to convey and reinforce healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors that are consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPyramid Food Guidance System. The website includes pages focused on Educators, Parents and Caregivers, and Kids.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) http://www.usda.gov/
The mission of the USDA is to provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/
The mission of the CDC is to collaborate to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health - through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.
