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• Bring Your Life Into Balance Toolkit

  This toolkit includes articles, videos, and other materials to help you attain greater emotional health and balance in your life.

  HelpGuide

• Building Blocks

  These teaching resources, including educational classroom games and school activities for preventing obesity, will help educators develop a preschool curriculum that builds a bridge between the school, home, and community and protects young children from developing risky behaviors.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• California Project LEAN

  This project works to advance nutrition and physical activity policy in schools and communities in order to prevent obesity and its associated chronic diseases.  It develops research-based, user-friendly tools and resources to educate audiences on nutrition and physical activity issues and help groups take action to implement strategies that will improve nutrition and physical activity environments. En español

  California Project LEAN

• Cut Back on Sweet Treats

  This tip sheet gives ten tips for reducing your child's sugar intake by eating healthy foods instead of sweets.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Cut Down on Salt and Sodium!/¡Coma menos sal y sodio!

  This bilingual Spanish and English guide provides healthy tips for reducing salt and sodium in your diet to lower your blood pressure. En español

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Diabetes Families

  This resource provides tools for behavior change and information on how to create new healthy habits as well as a network to connect and share with other concerned families.

  Diabetes Families

• Eat Smart. Play Hard.

  This campaign provides practical resources to help motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service (FNS)

• Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide

  This guide shows you many types of exercise and physical activity.  It also has lots of tips to help you be active in ways that suit your lifestyle, interests, health, and budget, whether you’re just starting out, getting back to exercising after a break, or fit enough to run a 3-mile race. It’s for everyone—people who are healthy and those who live with an ongoing health problem or disability. En español

  National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Fit for Two

  This booklet provides tips and ideas to improve your eating plan and become more physically active before, during, and after your pregnancy.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Get Heart Healthy! Cardiac Class Education Guide

  This resource guide provides health care professionals with six ready-to-use, interchangeable lessons to help patients get on track for heart-healthy eating.

  Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, General Mills