Resources for Professionals

10 Tips to Help Your Child and Teen Achieve a Healthy Weight (PDF file)
Handout developed by the ECU Pediatric Healthy Weight Research & Treatment Center

Eat Smart Move More...North Carolina (www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com), a statewide initiative that promotes increased opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating through environmental and policy changes, offers a variety of useful tools for health professionals and links to statewide data, such as:

• Eat Smart Move More: North Carolina's Plan to Prevent Overweight, Obesity and Related Chronic Diseases, 2007-2012. (http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/ESMMPlan/ESMMPlan.html)  This five-year state plan offers overarching goals and measurable objectives for anyone working in the area of overweight and obesity prevention. The plan is designed to help organizations and individuals address overweight and obesity in their community and begin to create policies and environments supportive of healthy eating and physical activity.
  
  
• Pediatric Clinical Obesity Tools
  (http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/PediatricObesityTools/PediatricObesityTools.html) A collection of clinical tools to address childhood obesity including a Pediatric Obesity Clinician Reference Guide, color-coded BMI charts, blood pressure tables, and prescription pads for prescribing simple health messages for families.
  
  
• Eat Smart, Move More County Profiles
  (http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/Policy.html)
   A collection of one-page documents profiling the successes and needs of each county in the state in the area of obesity prevention.
  
  
• North Carolina Blueprints
  (http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/ESMMPlan/ESMMPlan.html)   These documents are intended to guide community-based efforts to develop and implement effective policy and environmental change interventions as well as to increase public awareness of the importance of these changes.
  • North Carolina Blueprint for Changing Policies And Environments In Support Of Healthy Eating.
  • North Carolina Blueprint for Changing Policies and Environments in Support of Increased Physical Activity.
    
    
• School Programs and Tools (http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/School.html)
  Includes an interactive CD for teens, Energizers for middle and elementary schools, recommended standards for healthy eating and physical activity, healthy school fundraising and other tools.

North Carolina Nutrition and Physical Activity Surveillance System (NC-NPASS)
(http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/Data/ChildAndYouthData.html)
NC-NPASS data provide indicators of nutritional status such as overweight, underweight and anemia. NC-NPASS reports may not be representative of the population as a whole since it is comprised of data collected on children seen in NC Public Health sponsored Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and child health clinics and some school-based health centers.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System(http://www.nchealthyschools.org/data/) Includes data on physical activity, nutrition, overweight (self-reported heights and weights) and tobacco use among middle school and high school students. Only state-wide estimates are available.

Fit Together NC (www.fittogethernc.org) Sponsored by the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina the site links North Carolinians to tools for healthier weight and lifestyles. It provides information for consumers and health professionals, including tool kits for schools, neighborhoods, work and health care settings.

Guidelines for Collecting Heights and Weights on Children and Adolescents in School Settings (http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/cwh/resources/childrenandweight.shtml)

Patient Counseling Guidelines for Families with Overweight Children and Adolescents. A Reference Tool for Health Care Practitioners (http://www.wellpoint.com/commitments/physician_tools/childhood_obesity.asp)