Child Nutrition Health And Wellness Links

Child Nutrition Health and Wellness Links

Health & Wellness Resources

Laws, Regulations, Standards and Guidelines

• USDA - Food and Nutrition Service - Nutrition Assistance Programs.
• USDA - Food Safety and Inspection Service - Fact Sheets - Explains aspects of kitchen food safety and handling.
• FoodSafety.gov - Includes information related to food recalls and alerts, food safety, food poisoning, reporting a problem, food news and much more.
• USDA - Main website.
• NCDPI - School and Community Nutrition Programs - Provides information about federal and state nutrition programs.
• USDA - Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion - Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010.
• USDA - ChooseMyPlate.gov - Includes weight management and calorie counting, physical activity tracker, healthy eating tips and more!

Health and Wellness

• National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) - Provides information and services that promote the continuous improvement of child nutrition programs.
• USDA - National Agricultural Library - Food & Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) - Is a leader in online global nutrition information. Contains more than 2,500 current and reliable nutrition links.
• FDA, USDA - Food - Contains articles related to food.
• Health.gov - Health information for individuals and families including: health communication, physical activity guidelines, dietary guidelines and National Health Information Center.
• American Heart Association - Current information on how to keep your heart healthy.
• American Diabetes Association - Current information on how to prevent or manage diabetes.
• Eat Right.org - Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - Is a source for trustworthy, science-based food and nutrition information. Is committed to improving the nation's health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.
• Fruits & Veggies, More Matters - Includes healthy ways to cook, eat, shop and much more!
• School Nutrition Association - Is a professional organization focused on educating and empowering members to provide healthy meals to foster environments where children achieve overall wellness and lifelong success.
• School Nutrition Association of NC - Is a non-profit organization comprised of School Food Service Professionals focused on providing the best child nutrition programs for all children.
• Physical Activity and Health - A Report of the Surgeon General - National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
• American College of Sports Medicine - Advancing health through science, education and medicine.
• U.S. National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health - PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher Web sites.

Student-friendly Sites (Parents, too!)

• Kidnetic.com - Provides fun ways for kids to learn about nutrition and health.
• KidsHealth - Is all about health for kids. Includes a parent site, kids site and teens site.
• Pacific Science Center - Nutrition Café - Makes learning nutrition fun. Provides online games such as: Nutrition Sleuth, Grab A Grape and Have-A-Bite.