Nutrition and Obesity

Resources

SBHCs and Childhood Obesity: One of today’s most pressing public health problems is the rise in childhood overweight and obesity. School-based health centers (SBHCs) – the convergence of public health, primary care, and mental health in schools – represent an important element in our public health toolbox for combating this challenging epidemic.

Screening Project Identifies Highest Risk Obese Teens in North Carolina SBHC: The experience of a rural North Carolina program to identify children at the highest risk for obesity and intervene to encourage healthy living.

The Nutrition Revolution: An SBHC in Illinois works to address overweight and eating habits in their students.

Organizations

Let’s Move!: Let’s Move! will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that will engage every sector impacting the health of children and will provide schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthy Youth: Tools and resources for addressing childhood obesity from the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.