Additional Healthy Lifestyles Resources
- How to read nutrition labels, PDF from the Food and Drug Administration
- Nutrition basics for healthy girls, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Body and Mind: classroom resources for teachers, from the Center for Disease Control
- Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention, campaigns and toolkits from Oregon Health Authority
- MyPlate, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Eat Right, from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Find a farmers market, from the Oregon Farmers Markets Association
Books
- How to Get Your Kid to Eat ... But Not Too Much, by Ellyn Satter.
- The Stoplight Diet for Children: An Eight-Week Program for Parents and Children, by Leonard Epstein and Sally Squires.
- This book is out of print, but should be available in your public library.
- Red Yellow Green: System for Weight Management, by Karen Balko, RD.
- Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser.
- Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want To Know About Fast Food, by Eric Schlosser.
- Origins, How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, by Annie Murphy Paul.