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5 A Day
This national nutrition program seeks to increase the number of daily servings Americans eat of fruits and vegetables to five or more.

5 Al Dia
5 A Day in Español, offering healthy recipes, great nutrition information, and advice for our Spanish speaking audience!

Anemia and Iron Status
Young children are at great risk of iron deficiency because of rapid growth and increased iron requirements. Iron deficiency can occur due to lack of iron in the diets. If this continues, anemia results. Anemia is a manifestation of iron deficiency when it is relatively severe.

Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding topics, such as promotion, support, government activities and national policies.

Executive Summary: Formative Research for a Campaign to Promote Healthy Weight Using Relevant Physical Activity and Nutrition Messages for Youth (PDF - 122K)*
This report summarizes a collaborative qualitative research study conducted by the CDC’s Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (DNPA) and Westat. The summary conclusions reflect ideas and strategies that could be integrated into a healthy-weight communication effort targeting young people.

CDC, National Center for Environmental Health
Offers information about food safety and food-related illnesses.

Choosing Foods and Beverages for Healthy Meetings, Conferences and Events* (PDF - 449K)
This document offers guidelines for selecting healthier foods and beverages for meetings, conferences and other work-related events.

Healthy Eating Tips
Variety, Balance and Moderation

Here are some tips for healthy eating at home, work, and elsewhere to help you get started. Try some of these ideas.

IMMPaCt
International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control Program
CDC's IMMPaCt program contributes its skills and resources to the global effort to eliminate micronutrient malnutrition.

Iron Overload and Hemochromatosis
Hemochromatosis is a condition in which the body accumulates excess amounts of iron. Hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases in humans.

National Bone Health Campaign
Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls.TM Educates and encourages girls aged 9 to 12 years and their parents to establish lifelong, healthy habits that build and maintain strong bones.

Obesity and Overweight 
In the United States, obesity has risen at an epidemic rate during the past 20 years. One of the national health objectives for the year 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of obesity among adults to less than 15%.

Obesity and Overweight State Programs
CDC's State-based Nutrition and Physical Activity Program to support state health departments and their partners in developing and implementing targeted nutrition and physical activity interventions in an effort to prevent chronic diseases, especially obesity.

PEP: A Personal Energy Plan
The Personal Energy Plan or PEP is a 12-week self-directed, worksite program to promote healthy eating and moderate physical activity. The program materials include workbooks for healthy eating and physical activity targeting employees based on their readiness to change. A coordinator’s kit, promotional brochures, and posters are also included in the program.

Physical Activity and Good Nutrition: Essential Elements to Prevent Chronic Diseases and Obesity
Physical inactivity and unhealthy eating contribute to obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Together, these two behaviors are responsible for at least 300,000 deaths each year.

PNSS: Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System
The Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System was developed in order to assist health professionals in achieving the goals of identifying and reducing pregnancy-related health risks that contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

PedNSS: Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System
A system for continuously monitoring the nutritional status of specific high-risk population groups, developed in 1972 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to the United States Ten-State Nutrition Survey.

Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls.TM Web Site for Girls
The Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls. Web site has been updated with new poetry, exciting food ideas, and an informative and interactive section on reading food labels.
Powerful Bones. Powerful Girls. Web Site for Parents
A new Web site for parents with resources and creative ways to help your daughters make healthy choices that build and maintain strong bones.

State Legislative Information
The Legislative Database contains summaries of state legislative bills related to nutrition and physical activity from 2001 to present. Links are provided to each state legislature site to obtain the full-text version of the bill.

Trends in Intake of Energy, Protein, Carbohydrate, Fat, and Saturated Fat — United States, 1971–2000
American adults are consuming more calories per day than they did 30 years ago, according to the latest analysis of the U.S. diet released by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Also available in print-friendly format* (PDF - 222K).

Vitamin D Expert Panel Meeting* (PDF–391K)
In October 2001, scientists, health practitioners, and policymakers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), academic and professional institutions, and government agencies met in Atlanta, Georgia, to examine scientific issues and policy implications regarding vitamin D supplementation of breastfed infants. The final report is a summary of the presentations given by experts at the meeting and the panel discussions that followed each presentation. The statements in this document reflect the views of the expert panel members and guests and should not be interpreted as CDC policy.

U.S. Obesity Trends 1985 to 2002 
The prevalence of Obesity is explained in a slide presentation format.

*This document is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Acrobat Reader (a free application) to view and print this document.

 



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