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Fitness trends for the new year

 

Customizing exercise prescriptions for healthy adults - scientific, evidence-based recommendations for health and fitness professionals.

 

The Heart's Truth - new video alerts women to heart attack warning signs.

First Lady Michelle Obama: Let's Move site

Start! Walking at Home

National Diabetes Fact Sheet 2011

ChooseMyPlate.gov

Breastfeeding is best feeding - SD resources for parents, business owners, and physicians

MyPlate SuperTracker: My foods. My fitness. My Health

 

Market Lighting Affects Nutrients

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Professionals

South Dakota Obesity Data

Looking for South Dakota specific data on obesity, nutrition or physical activity? Check out this list of data sources. Newly published school height and weight data for the 2010-2011 school year.

Go4Life

Older adults have many questions about exercise and health professionals are the most trusted sources of this type of information. Go4Life is a great resource to help you answer your patients’ questions and provide free follow-up materials. The Go4Life website can offer tip sheets, free posters, bookmarks, articles about exercise and physical activity that could be used in an e-newsletter, or you can order free copies of Exercise and Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging, or order a free copy of the Go4Life exercise video to use in your waiting room.

 

Hospital Practices to Support
Breast-feeding

CDC recently released its second national survey of Maternity Care Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) in the August Vital Signs. Breastfeeding helps protect against childhood obesity.  Be sure to check out the South Dakota results.

 

Links Obesity: Halting the Epidemic by Making Health Easier 2011   School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Healthy People 2020 Implementing Healthy People 2020 Health and Human Services Prevention Strategies The Science of Energy Balance: Calorie Intake and Physical Activity - NIH curriculum supplement for middle school American College of Sports Medicine issues new recommendations on quantity and quality of exercise - current scientific evidence on physical activity and recommendations on aerobic exercise, strength training and flexibility. How Americans Rate Their Diet Quality: An Increasingly Realistic Perspective

 

 

Research to Practice Series

• Can lifestyle modifications using therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) reduce weight and the risk for chronic diseases?

• Eating fruits & vegetables to help manage weight

• Increased portion sizes

• Does drinking beverages with added sugar increase the risk of overweight?

• Incorporating away-from-home foods Into a healthy eating plan

Control your weight

New pediatric obesity guidelines
Recommendations for assessing, preventing and treating childhood and adolescent obesity

• Review the recommendations

• Roadmaps for Clinical Practice Series: Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity