Prevention Resources (for use in your practice and community):

Patient Education:

5: Encouraging Fruits and Veggies | Healthy Meal and Snack Ideas from Mayo Clinic
2: Facts about TV habits |Tips for Limiting Screen Time
1: Ideas for Staying Active
0: What’s in Your Glass?


Goal Trackers:

5: More fruits and veggies
2: Decrease screen time
1: More physical activity
0: Less soda & sugar


Prescription:

Prescription for healthy living

Presentations:

• Combatting Pediatric Obesity (Power Point)
  An overview of the pediatric obesity epidemic and how communities can work together to bring about change.
  
  
• Let's Move (Power Point)
  An overview of how pediatricians can leverage the Let's Move initiative to help prevent pediatric obesity.
  
  
• AAP presentations and webinars
  A collection of presentations and webinars on a wide variety of pediatric-obesity related topics from pediatricians across the country.

Advocacy:

• Sign up for weekly updates on pediatric obesity news in Minnesota. Email debilzan@mnaap.org
  
  
• Check out AAP's advoacy matrix for ways to support obesity prevention measures in your practice, community, school, state and nation.

More resources:

AAP's Obesity Prevention and Management Tools

If you know of other helpful tools or resources and would like to suggest we add them to this page, please email debilzan@mnaap.org