Promotion of Healthy Eating

• American Dietetic Association - The American Dietetic Association is the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. ADA serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health and well-being.
• CDC Department of Nutrition and Physical Activity - CDC's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (DNPA) takes a public health approach to address the role of nutrition and physical activity in improving the public's health and preventing and controlling chronic diseases.
• California Obesity Prevention Plan - Do More Watch Less: The prevalence of adolescent obesity has dramatically increased in the last three decades. Among the most significant causes is the role of television and screen time.  Do More-Watch Less! is a toolkit for after school programs and youth serving organizations to encourage tweens (ages 10-14) to incorporate more screen-free activities into their lives while reducing the time they spend watching TV, surfing the internet, and playing video games.  Developed by the California Obesity Prevention Initiative, California Department of Public Health, the toolkit was field-tested with, and designed specifically for tweens.  The toolkit includes step-by-step instructions and handouts that guide tweens through hands-on activities, including: tracking the time they typically spend in front of a screen; embarking on a challenge to go screen-free for up to a week; setting a goal to engage in no more than 2 hours of screen-based activities per day; celebrating their efforts to reduce their screen-time.
• Children With Diabetes - Online community for kids, families and adults with diabetes
• Cool Food Planet - A nutrition and healthy lifestyle site for kids and teens
• Cyber Farm Tour - Sponsored by National Pork Board, tour a pork farm with real-life farm kids.
• Do More, Watch Less - Do More-Watch Less! is a toolkit for after school programs and youth serving organizations to encourage tweens (ages 10-14) to incorporate more screen-free activities into their lives while reducing the time they spend watching TV, surfing the internet, and playing video games.  Developed by the California Obesity Prevention Initiative, California Department of Public Health, the toolkit was field-tested with, and designed specifically for tweens.
• Dole 5 A Day - An award winning site that educates kids, parents, and teachers alike about why fruits and vegetables areso good for you.
• FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition - This complex site provides access to many government resources on nutrition and is best used with a specific topic in mind due to its sheer size.
• Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger - Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger is designed
  to help equip and encourage teachers, students and young people all over the world
  to actively participate in creating a world free from hunger.
• Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network - Education, Advocacy, Research, Awareness. FAQ's, product alerts, recipes, allergy research.
• Foodborne Illness Education Information Center - This site is a compilation of food safety advice for professionals, teachers, and consumers. Links to other resources.
• Food Pyramid Match-up - Here's a game that allows students to match foods to the food group they belong to.
• Food Safety - Comprehensive facts on all facets of food safety, organized in a user-friendly way by food category.
• Food Safety Project - The Iowa State Extension Service has made food safety education a priority; this well-designed site provides lots of information and resources useful to consumers, health professionals, and educators.
• Government Food Safety - This site is an assembly of links that connects readers to credible food safety advice from the FDA, USDA, CDC and some state and local health agencies.
• Grains Information Wheat Foods Council - This site is a well-written, entertaining, and informative resource on grains, providing users with solid, up-to-date information.
• Health Teacher - K-12 health lesson plans and curriculum
• Healthy Choices - This site is a great resource for teachers, day care providers, and parents looking for good online nutrition education materials.
• IFIC Healthy Eating tips - 10 tips for healthy eating and physical activity
• International Food Information Council Foundation - This uncluttered site provides reporters, health professionals, and others with balanced information on controversial issues in nutrition.
• Kids Health, Staying Healthy - Find out how to take care of your body, eat healthy, and stay fit!
• Kids World Nutrition - This site features good information and activities for kids.
• Kidnetic - Kidnetic.com is a cool site for kids like you — kids who like to play hard and have fun. Kidnetic.com lets you tap into your own energy so you can feel great all day long. Games, recipes and much more.
• McGraw Hill Teacher Resources Health - Web linked activities, state resources, resources for health educators, food pyramids, and more.
• MyPyramid - USDA's updated "personalized" Pyramid, MyPyramid Plan offers you a personal eating plan with the foods and amounts that are right for you. Click on the MyPyramid Plan box to get started.
• Nutrition - Providing easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers, a service of the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Nutrition Cafe - Visit the nutrition cafe and learn about the foods you eat.
• Nutrition Explorations - National Dairy Council, fun and easy way to teach and learn nutrition.
  
• Nutrition & the Food Pyramid - This site was designed by first graders to help students learn about nutrition.
• Nutrition for Kids - Sponsored by 24 Carrot Press, includes Feeding Kids Newsletters by Portland Child Nutrition Expert, Connie Evers, M.S., R.D.
  
• Nutritional Sciences - University of Missouri, browse food preparation fact sheets, download food safety and nutrition curricula, link to other resources.
• Oregon Dairy Council - Encouraging healthy eating.
• OSU Extension Family & Community Development - Extension's Family and Community Development Program offers effective educational opportunities to help Oregon families meet the practical challenges of daily life.
• Safe Food for the Hungry - Materials from a yearly teleconference at Purdue include lesson plans and group activities that would be valuable tools for health professionals who train food pantry and feeding program personnel.
• Team Nutrition: Resource Library - This site is a comprehensive listing of all the resources available through Team Nutrition-USDA. For easy reference, these resources have also been subdivided by audience.
• USDA Food & Nutrition Info - This site connects readers to the vast nutrition related resources of the National Agricultural Library with clear and easy navigation.
• USDA Team Nutrition - an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.
• Vegetarian Resource Group - Substansive, well-organized, and balanced material providing news, recipes, nutrition information, links and ideas for those interested in eating a vegetarian diet.
• Vegetarian Times Magazine - Vegetarian information, articles and recipes.
• Veggie Life - Recipes, Veggie friendly restaurants, and more.
• Zip4Tweens - Information, recipes and games.

Eating Disorders and Body Image

• About-Face - About-Face eqiups women and girls with tools to understand and resist harmful stereotypes of women the media disseminates.
• ANRED - Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, information and resources on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, other lesser well-known eating disorders.
• Body Positive: Boosting body image at any weight - Body Positive looks at ways we can feel good in the bodies we have. Remember, your body hears everything you think.
• Caring Online - News, help, information, support, treatment, research on eating disorders.
• Dads and Daughters - Dad's and Daughters' mission is to make the world safe and fair for our daughters, taking action to change the culture
• Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center - Dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Provides information and treatment resources for all forms of eating disorders.
• Girl Power - Welcome to the homepage for Girl Power!, the national public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help encourage and motivate 9- to 13- year-old girls to make the most of their lives.
• Healthy Weight Network - Science-based books and resources by Frances M. Berg, MS, and other experts on obesity and disordered eating. Research into the latest weight loss interventions, dieting, eating disorders, overweight, body image, size acceptance, health at every size.
  
• HUGS International - Health focused, centered on Understanding lifestyle behaviors, Group supported, and Self-esteem building.
• National Eating Disorders Association - NEDA is dedicated to expanding public understanding and prevention of eating disorders and promoting access to quality treatment for those affected along with support for their families through education, advocacy and research.
• Overcoming Overeating - The National Center for Overcoming Overeating is an educational and training organization working to end body hatred and dieting. It was started in 1989 by Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann, authors of Overcoming Overeating and When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies.
• Weight Control Information Network - How does someone know if he or she has binge eating disorder.