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Helping an Overweight Child
An online brochure with advice for parents
and a list of additional resources. Made available by
the International Food Information Council Foundation.
The Weight-Control Information Network has numerous
publications as well as information about finding
obesity treatment available through its Web site.
This Web site has a good
section (with many useful links) on the health risks,
diagnosis, and treatment of child obesity.
School Health and Nutrition Policies
This report from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention summarizes strategies for
promoting healthy eating among school-age children and
adolescents and provides nutrition education
guidelines for a comprehensive school health program.
A self-assessment
and planning tool from the CDC that schools can use to
improve policies on health and safety. Also useful for
parents trying to strengthen school programs on food
and physical activity.
Limiting the Marketing of Products to Children
Program devised by the
Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization is known
for its research on health policy issues.
A trade organization of more than 300 companies that
collectively spend over $100 billion on marketing
and advertising. On the ANA homepage, there is a
link
to a “white paper” describing the industry’s self-regulation guidelines for
food advertising and positions on current
legislative and regulatory issues.
Web site directed by Alex Molnar, a professor of
education policy at Arizona State University. The
center does both research and advocacy; its Web site
contains a roundup of news about efforts opposing
commercialism in schools in various parts of the
country.
Web site of a nonprofit organization, cofounded by
Ralph Nader, whose mission statement says it aims “to
keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,
and to prevent it from exploiting children.”
The Web site of the Campaign for a Commerical-Free
Childhood (CCFC), formerly known as Stop Commercial
Exploitation of Children (SCEC). Run by Boston
psychologist Susan Linn, whose book is listed above,
CCFC describes itself as a national coalition of
health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups,
and parents dedicated to countering the harmful
effects of marketing to children.
Web site of the nonprofit Washington-based lobbying and
advocacy group, best known for its long-standing
activism on the nutritional content and marketing of
fast food. Provides information on nutrition issues
and policy initiatives.
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