There are lots of ways to encourage children to eat things they like, enjoy activity and stay healthy.  Sample the choices below to find what is right for your child!

The Full Picture

• Be a Healthy Role Model:  10 Tips! (USDA)
• Body Image and Your Kids (womenshealth.gov)
• Creating a Healthy Home Environment
• Dietary and Exercise Recommendations for Children and Adolescents
• Healthy Lifestyle Habits for Kids: A Key to Solving the Obesity Epidemic
• Healthy Weights for Healthy Kids (Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics)
• Helping Your Overweight Child (NIH)
• Is Your Child at a Healthy Weight?  Do-it-Yourself BMI Calculator (CDC)
• Let’s Move Parents (Let’s Move)
• Parents Can Help Overweight Children
• Tips for Parents – Ideas to Help Children Maintain a Healthy Weight (CDC)
• To Prevent Childhood Obesity, Avoid Pitfalls of American Lifestyle
• We Can!  Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity & Nutrition (NIH)

Food & Nutrition

• Age-appropriate Diet for Children (NIH)
• Especially for Moms:  Recipes, Fact Sheets and More! (USDA)
• Dietary and Exercise Recommendations for Children and Adolescents
• Healthy Eating for Infants & Toddlers (USDA)
• Healthy Eating for Preschool & Elementary Kids (USDA)
• Healthy Eating for Special Needs Kids (USDA)
• Is Dieting OK for Kids? (Neumors)
• Kids Rock Nutrition in the Kitchen (USDA)
• Recipe Finder Cookbook:  Foods They’ll Love! (USDA)
• Shopping List on a Tight Budget!

Activity

• Let’s Move! Childcare (Nemours)
• Make Physical Activity A Part of Your Family’s Routine (Let’s Move)

This children’s health content is brought to you with support from University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

For more information:

Go to the Kids’ Healthy Weight health topic.