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Resources for Obesity Awareness Week

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Increase Fruit & Vegetable Consumption Decrease Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Reduce Screen Time Increase Physical Activity

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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

• Walk Across Texas!
• Dinner Tonight
• HealthHints: Maximizing Your Exercise Payoffs (PDF)
• HealthHints: Dollars, Health, Lives (PDF)
• HealthHints: Motivation for Healthy Change (PDF)
• Families, Food and Fitness
• Junior Master Gardener
• Texas Master Gardener

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Learn about Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Programs

• Walk Across Texas! (PDF)
• Balancing Food & Play (PDF)
• Supplemental Nutrition Education Program – Better Living for Texans (PDF)
• Cooking Well With Diabetes (PDF)
• Do Well, Be Well with Diabetes (PDF)
• Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (PDF)
• Master Wellness Volunteer Program (PDF)
• Working Well (PDF)

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Texas Specific Resources

• CDC Texas State Profile 2011 (PDF)
• F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future, 2012 (PDF)
• Overweight and Obesity – Texas
• Texas! Bringing Healthy Back
• Square Meals – Nourishing Children’s Bodies and Minds

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National Resources

• Centers for Disease Control: Adult Overweight and Obesity
• Centers for Disease Control: Childhood Overweight and Obesity
• Centers for Disease Control: Tips for Parents – Ideas to Help Children Maintain a Healthy Weight
• State Indicator Report on Physical Activity, 2010 (PDF)
• Childhood Obesity Resource List, November 2010 (PDF)
• Weight Management and Obesity Resource List (PDF)
• WIN – the Weight-control Information Network
• Fruits & Veggies, More Matters
• Nutrition Resources for Health Professionals – Research to Practice
• Let’s Move!

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Increase Fruit & Vegetable Consumption

• Fruits & Vegetables More Matters
• Fruits & Veggies Matter
• Can eating fruits and vegetables help people to manage their weight? (PDF)
• How to Use Fruits and Vegetables to Help Manage Your Weight
• Produce for Kids
• Junior Master Gardener
• Texas Master Gardener

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Decrease Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

• Does drinking beverages with added sugars increase the risk of overweight? (PDF)

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Reduce Screen Time

• Helpful Ways to Reduce Screen Time
• Active Bodies Active Minds

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Increase Physical Activity

• Walk Across Texas!
• 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
• Enjoy Moving – Be Physically Active Every Day (PDF)
• HealthHints: Maximizing Your Exercise Payoffs (PDF)
• HealthHints: Dollars, Health, Lives (PDF)
• National Physical Activity Plan
• American Fitness Index
• State Indicator Report on Physical Activity, 2010 (PDF)
• Let’s Move!

 

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Last updated: 12 March, 2013

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