RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Childhood Obesity

Check out these links below for more information on work being done around Childhood Obesity:


Small Planet Institute
Chef Ann Cooper
Chef Alice Waters: Chez Panisse Foundation
Dr. Antronette Yancey
Britt Rios-Ellis
Centers for Disease Control
Advertising to Kids:
Commercial Alert
on Food Companies attempt to deal with Childhood Obesity
New American Dream
poll on kids who nag their parents for things
American Academy of Pediatrics
on children's exposure to advertising
Susan Linn

Health News Stats
on Harvard Study on Childhood Obesity
Amy Saltzman writes for the US News and World Report
on "Junior's got a trainer", kids and weight issues
People's Grocery
A West Oakland group that works to provide healthy produce and teach kids about health and nutrition
Mayo Clinic
Family activities/changes in behavior that can help child weight gain issues
Organic Consumers Association
organic school lunch programs, Chef Alice Waters
Institute of Medicine's progress report for preventing childhood obesity
Centers for Disease Control on Diabetes
Food Change to get healthy food into school lunches
Michele Simon and the Center for Informed Food Choices
The Food Project provides healthy food and teaches children about health in Boston, MA and surrounding communities
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Bayview Hunters Point health and environmetnal justice
BOOK - This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow
BOOK - Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice