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Assess youth fitness and educate your community on the importance of every day activity<br />
Childhood obesity is a serious problem. More and more organizations are getting<br />
involved in the effort to get children moving and improve their health. The Fitnessgram/<br />
Activitygram program, which was developed by The Cooper Institute, can help you achieve<br />
both of those goals.<br />
The program is made up of two parts. Fitnessgram is a fitness assessment tool that<br />
assesses children’s fitness levels based on what’s optimal for good health. It uses criterionreferenced<br />
standards that emphasize personal fitness for health rather than goals based<br />
on performance. You can use this information to work with the children to improve their<br />
fitness and overall health. The second part of the program, Activitygram, emphasizes the<br />
need for physical activity. After children track their activity for three days, Activitygram<br />
will give them personalized suggestions for increasing or maintaining their activity<br />
levels to meet national guidelines. You can even use the program to issue challenges to<br />
children to increase their physical activity. The fun of the challenges encourages them to<br />
participate and helps them get motivated.<br />
Fitnessgram/Activitygram’s reporting functions can also help you get parents involved.<br />
You can generate printed Fitnessgram and Activitygram reports that can be sent home<br />
with each child. The reports explain in non-technical terms why physical activity is<br />
important and recommend physical activity options for improving children’s fitness and<br />
activity levels.<br />
For more information, call Carmel Middlebos at (800) 747-4457 x2413 or email her at CarmelM@hkusa.com.<br />
Evidence-based health education from the Harvard School of<br />
Public Health<br />
Eat Well & Keep Moving and Planet Health are comprehensive,<br />
multifaceted programs that address nutrition and physical<br />
activity simultaneously. These programs are proven to be<br />
effective in combating a major factor related to childhood<br />
obesity: too much time in front of the TV. Extensive field tests<br />
show that children taking part in these programs ate more fruits<br />
and vegetables, reduced their intake of saturated and total fat,<br />
watched less TV, and improved their knowledge of nutrition and<br />
physical activity.<br />
Both books include instructions for campaigns that encourage<br />
kids to watch less TV and reduce other screen time, as well as<br />
numerous lesson plans for both classroom-based activities and<br />
physical education style activities. The books also include<br />
tools for involving parents and the community and a CD-ROM<br />
with reproducible worksheets, additional resources, parent<br />
information and newsletters, and more.<br />
Eat Well & Keep Moving, Second Edition<br />
Lilian W.Y. Cheung, DSc, Hank Dart, MS, Sari Kalin, MS, and<br />
Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD<br />
©2007 • Paperback with CD-ROM • 632 pp<br />
ISBN 978-0-7360-6940-3 • $56.00 ($65.95 CDN)<br />
Planet Health, Second Edition<br />
Jill Carter, MA, EdM, Jean L. Wiecha, PhD, Karen E. Peterson, ScD,<br />
Suzanne Nobrega, MS, and Stephen L. Gortmaker, PhD<br />
©2007 • Paperback with CD-ROM • 592 pp<br />
ISBN 978-0-7360-6918-2 • $54.00 ($63.95 CDN)<br />
YOUTH PROGRAMMING: HEALTH AND FITNESS<br />
60 pilot-tested, ready-to-go lesson plans<br />
Kids are struggling with weight issues as they never have before. In<br />
fact, more than 15 percent of children ages 6 to 19 are overweight,<br />
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<br />
Physical Activity and Nutrition for Health will help you promote fitness<br />
and nutrition among children and staff, and its nutrition services tools<br />
will help you garner support from parents and community members.<br />
This book and CD-ROM package includes 60 lessons for fitness and<br />
nutrition; worksheets, exercise cards, and food cards; practical ideas for<br />
building children’s health; and family and community activities. These<br />
lessons will help children improve in all components of health-related<br />
fitness now while establishing healthy behaviors for the rest of their<br />
lives.<br />
Physical Activity and Nutrition for Health<br />
Chris Hopper, PhD, Bruce Fisher, and Kathy D. Munoz, EdD, RD<br />
©2008 • Paperback with CD-ROM • 392 pp<br />
ISBN 978-0-7360-6538-2 • $36.00 ($41.95 CDN)<br />
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For more health promotion resources, visit www.<strong>Human</strong><strong>Kinetics</strong>.com/HealthPromotion<br />
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