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• Active at Any Size

  This booklet addresses the special challenges for very large people who are physically active and provides tips and ideas to become more active and healthier—no matter what your size.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• 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

• Diabetes Foot Care

  This online multimedia tutorial provides an overview of proper foot care for patients with diabetes.

  MedlinePlus

• Do You cAARd?

  This campaign challenges diabetes educators to share the Take Charge Gold Card with their patients with diabetes who smoke or chew tobacco, a card that urges smokers to call a smoking cessation hotline, and use their "ask, advise, refer" intervention with every patient at every visit.

  California Diabetes Program

• Let's Move

  This initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama, aims to eliminate childhood obesity and create a healthy start for children by empowering parents and caregivers, increasing physical activity, providing healthy food in schools, and improving access to healthy, affordable food in every part of the country.

  Let's Move

• Make Your Calories Count

  This interactive learning program helps you plan a healthful diet using nutrition labels while managing calorie intake.

  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• My Fitness Plan

  These three worksheets for young women can help you figure out which types of exercise you'll enjoy most and how to get started, stay motivated, and free up time for fitness.

  Center for Young Women's Health at Children's Hospital Boston

• MyFoodAdvisor

  Registration Required

  This online tracking tool lets you track what you eat to manage your diabetes and prevent the onset of complications.  Explore nearly 5,000 foods and find recipes and healthy alternatives to improve your meals. En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• The Good Health Club

  This toolkit helps educate parents and children on ways to change to a healthier lifestyle and diet through a 5-2-1-0 message. The Good Health Club campaign promotes healthy choices and behaviors in children through fun, effective, age-appropriate communications. Some materials are available in Spanish.

  BlueCross and BlueShield Association

• The Power of Choice

  This activity guide for after-school program leaders provides quick, simple things to do with kids to help them develop skills for making healthful physical activity and eating choices.

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