Other Resources

Adults

• Be Active Your Way: A Guide for Adults
  Read how you can fit physical activity into your life—your way. The site offers a printable guide and fact sheets.
  
• Growing Stronger: Strength Training for Older Adults
• National Institute on Aging: Exercise and Physical Activity: Getting Fit For Life
• NIDDK Weight-control Information Network: Active at Any Size
  Some overweight people face challenges trying to be active. Find out how to get more active no matter what your size.
• Physical Activity for a Healthy Weight
• smallstep.gov

Especially for Children and Teens

• BAM! Body and Mind, CDC
• Be Active, Tips for Kids with Type 2 Diabetes [PDF-196k]
• Best Bones Forever
  A bone health campaign for girls and their BFFs to "grow strong together and stay strong forever!"
• Empowering Youth with Nutrition & Physical Activity
  Empowering Youth is a manual for use in after school programs and classrooms with youth 11–18 years old. It contains current nutrition and physical activity information to enhance leader knowledge; fun, hands-on activities that teach nutrition concepts; ideas to include nutrition education and physical activity into youth programs and events
• Healthy Youth! Physical Activity and the Health of Young People
• KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation: Motivation and the Power of Not Giving Up
• Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active!
  This interactive after-school education program for young people ages 11 to 13 is designed to help teach them about the complex media world around them, and how it can affect their health — especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.
• Healthy Youth! Brochures for Parents, Teachers, and Principals to Increase Physical Activity Among Youth
• Smallstep for Kids
  A child-focused site offering nutritional advice, games and activity suggestions for children and parents as part of the obesity prevention campaign. The computer-animated character Shrek encourages kids to go out an play.
• We Can! A Parent Handbook
• VERB™

Persons with Disabilities

• International Paralympic Committee
• Motor Opportunities Via Education (MOVE) International
• National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
• North American Riding for the Handicapped Association

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