Get Healthy San Mateo : Nutrition

Nutrition Education

CDC podcast called Finding a Balance on how to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. There is also information available from the Healthy Weight website.

Take Charge of Your Health Guide for Teenagers. Focuses on healthy eating and active living. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Weight-Control Information Network. National Institute of Health publication updated in September 2006.

Food Champs offers information and activities for children aged 2-5. Children can download their artwork, print and color online coloring pages, print calendars and stickers, play a supermarket scavenger hunt and more. Site also has activities for kids aged 6-8 including fruit and veggie pyramid game, fruit and veggie math, and other games.

Nourish Interactive is a website in English and Spanish that provides parents and children with a variety of tools to learn about nutrition. This website offers information and tools in two versions: one for parents and one for children.

American Heart Association Dietary Recommendations for Healthy Children

True or False? Test your fruit and veggie IQ Fruit and Veggies More Matters

USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center – nutrition and fitness information for parents and families with preschool and elementary school-aged kids; includes information on healthy snacks and lunches for children and how to help your overweight child.

Watch a video of the American Heart Association’s Better Fat Sisters. These gals are charmers in their own way – they look out for you and your heart. The sisters love it when you cook with the foods they're in, and they've got lots of great tips to share.

American Heart Assocation also produced a video of the Bad Fat Brothers

It’s time to learn which fats are better for you. Take the fat course 101, learn to live fat-sensibly, use the Fats Translator to calculate daily calories and fat recommendations for you, consumer FAQ, and more.

How to Help Your Overweight Child

NIH's Weight-control Information Network published Helping your Overweight Child

The Childhood Obesity Prevention Project at Stanford University is a 3-step program that gives parents/guardians the tools to create a healthy eating environment for their children. Step 1: Evaluation and Orientation (30 minutes), Step 2: Weekly Group Therapy with certified therapist (5 weeks) Step 3: “After” Assessment (15 minutes). All participants are rewarded $100 for their time and commitment. Call 650-723-2242 or email jsyu@stanford.edu for more information.

How to Prepare Healthy Meals and Snacks

Family guide to healthy eating. Find practical, up-to-date information you can use to balance good nutrition and a busy family schedule, including recipes, expert interviews, snack and meal tips, and more!

Univeresity of Illinois Extension suggests healthy snacks for children and youth.

Videos by the Fruits and Veggies More Matters on how to prepare healthy meals and snacks.

Delicious Heart Healthy Latino/a Recipes/Platillos Latinos-sabrosos y saludables!

Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association has links to recipes using farm-fresh fruits and vegetables.

National Institute of Health published Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style

Purchase the Best of Healthy Soul Food Recipes (American Heart Association)

Nutrition Explorations healthy kitchen includes healthy recipes you can prepare with your family, shopping tips, smart snacking, and more.

Fruit and Veggies More Matters Campaign offers a healthy recipe database, recipes that take 30 minutes or less, top ten ways to cook almost anything, and cooking tips.

Fruits and Vegetables matter. Enter in your personal information to learn the number of servings of fruits and vegetables that your body needs. Includes fruit and vegetable of the month, recipes and tips.

School and child care recipes by the United States Department of Agriculture.

California Adolescent and Nutrition Fitness (CANFit) Program’s Healthy Snack Guide offers tips on how to start serving snacks and sample cycle menus to get you started. Includes recipes for healthy after school snacks.

California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness (CANFit) Program’s Three Week Healthy Snack Plan

Ask an Expert

Post questions or tap into the wisdom of mothers nationwide. For snack strategies and tasty tips, moms know best. Created by the Fruits and Veggies More Matters Campaign.

Let our nutrition experts be your guide in making healthy food choices. An interview with a featured nutrition expert of the month addresses timely nutrition topics and our parent question of the month answers addresses nutrition concerns common to many parents. Visit our archives in this section to find a wealth of information there too. Nutrition Exploration. Parents: Family Guide to Healthy Eating. Health and Nutrition section

Cooking With Your Kids

United States Department of Agriculture offers information on cooking with kids.

Get Kids Involved. Includes top ten tips to get kids involved, cooking with your kids and vegetarian kids.

Healthy Eating Tools

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a BMI Calculator for Children and Teens

USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Resource Center at Baylor College of Medicine recommends the Children’s BMI-percentile-for Age Calculator to determine whether a child is at a healthy weight for his/her height, age and gender.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services established MyPyramid, formerly called the Food Pyramid. Many other pyramids exist today including the Asian, Latin American, Mediterranean and Vegetarian diet pyramids. Many pyramids are designed for different populations. This site offers information about the basic principles of all food pyramids, differences in food pyramids, and how to use the food pyramids.

U.S. Department of Food and Drug Administration. How to understand and use nutrition facts labels

Nutrition.gov website offers information on meal planning and shopping for fruits and vegetables.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation offers the Healthy Schools Product Calculator to determine if a snack food or side item meets the Alliance's Guidelines for Competitive Foods.

California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness (CANFit) Program’s Three Week Healthy Snack Plan

The amount of fruits and vegetables your family needs daily depends on caloric needs, which are determined by age, gender and activity level. Find out how much you and your family members need. Fruits and Veggies More Matters Campaign.

Fast Food

American Heart Association proposes How to Make Fast Food Friendlier

California Center for Health Improvement published Fast Food in California's High Schools: Popular, Profitable, Contributing to Teen Obesity?

Healthy Fast Food: Healthy Choices at Fast Food Restaurants

Center for Science in the Public Interest published From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Supersizing

Healthy Classrooms

Center for Science in the Public Interest provides information on healthy classroom celebrations and food free ways to celebrate in the classroom.

Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits While Protecting Children’s Health. Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Local Nutrition and Food Resources

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