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  • 10,000 Steps

    Cost Associated

    Registration Required

    This walking program uses a personal pedometer to encourage you to fit extra steps to your daily routine and walk your way to better health.

    Kaiser Permanente

  • 50 Ways to Prevent Diabetes for African Americans

    This tip sheet helps African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to lower their risk for diabetes.

    National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • A Healthier You

    This easy-to-use resource guide helps you make smart choices from every food group, find balance between food and physical activity, and get the most out of the calories you consume.

    Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  • 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)

  • After School Physical Activity

    This website has ideas, instructions, and videos of fun activities and games for students in grades 4-8.

    San Diego County Office of Education

  • America on the Move

    Registration Required

    American on the Move is an evidence-based nonprofit dedicated to helping you take small steps and make small lifestyle changes for a healthier way of life.  This website will help you improve your health and quality of life through healthful eating and active living.  Includes an online community, articles on making healthy choices, and more. En español

    America on the Move (AOM)

  • BAM! Body and Mind

    This website gives kids ages 9 to 13 the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices.  The site focuses on topics that are important to them—such as stress and physical fitness—using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.  The Teacher's Corner provides interactive, educational, and fun activities that are linked to national education standards for science and health.

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  • Be Active Your Way

    This guide will help you fit physical activity into your life—your way. Decide the number of days you’ll exercise, the types of activities you’ll do, and the times that fit your schedule.

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

  • Bienestar/NEEMA Health Program

    Cost Associated

    These evidence-based bilingual and culturally-sensitive diabetes and obesity prevention curricula aim to increase physical activity and the intake of fruits, vegetables, and dietary fiber and decrease the intake of sweets and fatty foods in K-8 students.  Free, full-curriculum PDF samples are available for download. En español

    Social & Health Research Center (SHRC)

  • BodyWorks

    This program is designed to help parents and caregivers of adolescents ages 9 to 13 improve family eating and activity habits. The program toolkit focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. En español

    Office on Women's Health (OWH)

  • 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

  • Daily Burn

    Registration Required

    This resource helps you by providing nutritional tracking tools and fitness plans to help you reach your weight goals.

    Daily Burn

  • 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

  • dLife

    On this website you'll find everything there is to know about staying healthy and living well with diabetes. Learn how to manage your blood sugar, treat highs and lows, and avoid diabetic complications. Get inspired by people with diabetes achieving great things, and find practical help with the everyday issues you face in your home, workplace, and beyond.

    dLife

  • dLife TV

    This weekly television series is dedicated to empowering the millions of Americans living with diabetes, featuring real people, real stories, celebrities, advice, and diabetes-friendly cooking.

    dLife TV

  • 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)

  • EnhanceFitness

    Registration Required

    This in-person exercise program for older adults helps to increase your strength, boost your activity levels, and elevate your mood through dynamic exercises at a pace that's right for you.

    Project Enhance

  • 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)

  • Fitness Programs: 5 Steps to Getting Started

    These guidelines will take you through five steps for getting started with a fitness program, including assessing your fitness level, desigining a program that's right for you, assembling your equipment, taking action, and monitoring your progress.

    Mayo Clinic

  • Getting on Track: Physical Activity and Healthy Eating for Men

    This booklet has tips for men for getting on track with healthy habits, including eating smart and getting fit.

    Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

  • Go4Life

    Go4Life is a campaign from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) designed to help you fit exercise and physical activity into your daily life.

    Go4Life-National Institute on Aging (NIA)

  • Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids

    This nutrition and activity guide for parents has colorful pages filled with tips for teaching children about the importance of proper diet and regular physical activity, and to form healthy habits early on. En español

    WellPoint Foundation

  • Keeping Active

    This guide shows you how to incorporate regular physical activity into your daily life, with encouraging tips and suggested goals for getting started.

    Diabetes Australia

  • Kidnetic

    This website for kids tells you cool stuff about how your body works, how eating right helps you play better and feel good, and how staying active is lots of fun! En español

    Kidnetic

  • KidTribe

    Cost Associated

    This in-person program aims to fight the childhood obesity epidemic by fostering an environment where kids know it's hip to be healthy.  Nutrition and physical activity is at the root of each program, helping to build healthy bodies and healthy hearts.

    KidTribe

  • Let's Go

    Let’s Go! is a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program that works to increase physical activity and healthy eating for children from birth to 18 through policy and environmental changes.

    Barbara Bush Children's Hospital

  • 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

  • Marathon Kids

    Registration Required

    This school- and community-based fitness program teaches kids to live an active and healthy lifestyle by running or walking 26.2 miles over six months, eating healthy food daily, and even learning to grow fruits and veggies.  Available in select cities.

    Marathon Kids

  • Media Smart Youth

    This curriculum for an after-school health promotion program is designed to teach young people ages 11 to 13 about the complex media world around them and how it can affect their health—especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.

    National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)

  • Mixie's Boogie Buffet

    This interactive online game for kids let's you exercise with Mixie's dance moves. Follow along with the animated movement lessons or create dance moves of your own.

    PBS

  • Move to Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible

    This tip sheet provides helpful ways to lower the risk of high blood pressure through physical activity.

    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Insitute (NHLBI)

  • 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

  • MyFitnessPal

    Registration Required

    MyFitnessPal is a diet and fitness community that provides tools and support for tracking your food and exercise and helping you achieve your weight loss goals.

    MyFitnessPal

  • NFL PLAY 60 Challenge Resources

    These resources help teachers get their students active, excited, and engaged in the NFL PLAY 60 Challenge. The resources include a teacher guide, lesson plan worksheets, game planner, classroom scoreboard, and certificate.

    American Heart Association (AHA)

  • Overcoming Barriers to Better Fitness

    This podcast offers strategies for addressing patient and practice obstacles related to overweight and obesity issues.  CME credits available.

    American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

  • Patient-Centered Approaches to Better Fitness

    This 21-minute podcast for health care professionals will help you learn new strategies to effectively talk to patients about nutrition, physical activity and emotional well-being.

    American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

  • Physical Activity: The "Magic Pill"

    This article emphasizes the importance of incorporating physical activity in your everyday life to reduce your risk of chronic diseases.

    President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

  • Power to Prevent

    This curriculum provides communities, diabetes educators, and other program leaders steps to help lead African Americans in making healthy lifestyle changes for themselves and for their families.

    National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Step by Step (Prevengamos la diabetes tipo 2. Paso a paso)

    This tip sheet helps Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to reduce their risk. En español

    National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk: Patient Education Toolkit

    This comprehensive kit includes reproducible patient education handouts on 29 topics related to cardiometabolic risk reduction, prediabetes, diabetes, and CVD. En español

    American Diabetes Association (ADA)

  • Simple Chair Exercises

    This guide provides simple exercises you can do while sitting to increase your strength, flexibility, and mobility.

    Diabetes Australia

  • Sit and Be Fit

    This televised chair exercise program was developed by a team of medical and fitness professionals to improve the health and wellness of older adults, physically limited individuals, and those managing chronic conditions and chronic pain.

    Sit and Be Fit

  • Spark Teens

    Registration Required

    This website offers teens free nutrition, health, and fitness tools, along with support and resources that help teens achieve their health goals.

    SparkPeople

  • SPARKPE

    Cost Associated

    SPARK PE offers evidence-based physical activity programs that provide curriculum and staff development to teachers of Pre-K through 12th grade students.

    Spark

  • SparkPeople

    Registration Required

    This online program provides free nutrition, health, and fitness tools, support, and resources to help you reach your goals and live a healthier life.  Track your calories and exercise and connect with others like you.

    SparkPeople

  • Step by Step

    This campaign for employers moves your employees through a 12-week program to incorporate regular walking into their daily lives.

    Wellness Council of America

  • 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 HEALTHY Study

    This website makes publicly available materials that were used in the HEALTHY intervention program, which was designed to moderate risk factors for type 2 diabetes in adolescents including nutrition, physical education, behavior, and communications and social marketing. En español

    The HEALTHY Study

  • The President's Challenge

    Registration Required

    The President’s Challenge helps people of all ages and abilities increase their physical activity and improve their fitness through research-based information, easy-to-use tools, and friendly motivation.

    President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

  • The Road to Health Toolkit

    This toolkit provides materials to begin a community outreach program with African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes, reinforcing the message that type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented.  CME credit available. En español

    National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • Tips for Teens with Diabetes: Get Active

    This easy-to-read, bilingual Spanish and English tip sheet encourages teens to be more physically active to better manage their diabetes. En español

    National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • Tips for Teens: Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

    This easy-to-read, bilingual Spanish and English tip sheet encourages teens to lower their risk for diabetes by being active, making health food choices, and losing weight if they are overweight. En español

    National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

  • Walking Works

    This guide helps Americans live healthier lives by helping them set and achieve personal walking goals.  Treat yourself and your family to a daily routine of brisk walking. It’s a healthy and simple way to feel better now and reduce the risk of developing serious health problems down the road.

    BlueCross BlueShield Association

  • What I Need to Know about Physical Activity and Diabetes

    This booklet helps people with diabetes choose and begin a physical activity program and safely lead an active, healthy lifestyle. En español

    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

  • Where Do I Begin? Living with Type 2 Diabetes

    This online resource from the American Diabetes Association® provides helpful information and first steps for taking control of your type 2 diabetes. En español

    American Diabetes Association (ADA)

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