Be Active – HealthSense resources

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• Kidnetic

  This website for kids tells you cool stuff about how your body works, how eating right helps you play better and feel good, and how staying active is lots of fun!En español

  Kidnetic

• Let’s Move

  This initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama, aims to eliminate childhood obesity and create a healthy start for children by empowering parents and caregivers, increasing physical activity, providing healthy food in schools, and improving access to healthy, affordable food in every part of the country.

  Let’s Move

• Media Smart Youth

  This curriculum for an after-school health promotion program is designed to teach young people ages 11 to 13 about the complex media world around them and how it can affect their health—especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.

  National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)

• Keeping Active

  This guide shows you how to incorporate regular physical activity into your daily life, with encouraging tips and suggested goals for getting started.

  Diabetes Australia

• The HEALTHY Study

  This website makes publicly available materials that were used in the HEALTHY intervention program, which was designed to moderate risk factors for type 2 diabetes in adolescents including nutrition, physical education, behavior, and communications and social marketing.En español

  The HEALTHY Study

• Active at Any Size

  This booklet addresses the special challenges for very large people who are physically active and provides tips and ideas to become more active and healthier—no matter what your size.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide

  This guide shows you many types of exercise and physical activity.  It also has lots of tips to help you be active in ways that suit your lifestyle, interests, health, and budget, whether you’re just starting out, getting back to exercising after a break, or fit enough to run a 3-mile race. It’s for everyone—people who are healthy and those who live with an ongoing health problem or disability.En español

  National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Marathon Kids

  Registration Required

  This school- and community-based fitness program teaches kids to live an active and healthy lifestyle by running or walking 26.2 miles over six months, eating healthy food daily, and even learning to grow fruits and veggies.  Available in select cities.

  Marathon Kids

• My Fitness Plan

  These three worksheets for young women can help you figure out which types of exercise you’ll enjoy most and how to get started, stay motivated, and free up time for fitness.

  Center for Young Women’s Health at Children’s Hospital Boston

• dLife TV

  This weekly television series is dedicated to empowering the millions of Americans living with diabetes, featuring real people, real stories, celebrities, advice, and diabetes-friendly cooking.

  dLife TV

• Sit and Be Fit

  This televised chair exercise program was developed by a team of medical and fitness professionals to improve the health and wellness of older adults, physically limited individuals, and those managing chronic conditions and chronic pain.

  Sit and Be Fit

• Tips for Teens with Diabetes: Get Active

  This easy-to-read, bilingual Spanish and English tip sheet encourages teens to be more physically active to better manage their diabetes.En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Be Active Your Way

  This guide will help you fit physical activity into your life—your way. Decide the number of days you’ll exercise, the types of activities you’ll do, and the times that fit your schedule.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Diabetes Families

  This resource provides tools for behavior change and information on how to create new healthy habits as well as a network to connect and share with other concerned families.

  Diabetes Families

• NFL PLAY 60 Challenge Resources

  These resources help teachers get their students active, excited, and engaged in the NFL PLAY 60 Challenge. The resources include a teacher guide, lesson plan worksheets, game planner, classroom scoreboard, and certificate.

  American Heart Association (AHA)

• Go4Life

  Go4Life is a campaign from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) designed to help you fit exercise and physical activity into your daily life.

  Go4Life-National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• MyFitnessPal

  Registration Required

  MyFitnessPal is a diet and fitness community that provides tools and support for tracking your food and exercise and helping you achieve your weight loss goals.

  MyFitnessPal

• SPARKPE

  Cost Associated

  SPARK PE offers evidence-based physical activity programs that provide curriculum and staff development to teachers of Pre-K through 12th grade students.

  Spark

• Be Active When You Have Diabetes

  This guide uses visual representations to show the benefits of regular exercise to those with diabetes. It gives suggestions to get more active and includes places for you to write your ideas and create your own physical activity plan.

  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

• Be Active When You Have Diabetes: A Guide for Instructors (Flip Chart)

  This flipbook helps teach patients to identify ways to become more physically active. It provides color illustrations with two- to third- grade level text on the patient pages and simple teaching points on the corresponding instructor pages.

  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

• The National Diabetes Prevention Program Training Curriculum

  The National Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle training curriculum is based on the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). The lifestyle program is divided into two components: Core Curriculum & Post-Core Curriculum.

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Prevent

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  The Prevent program is designed to help individuals, including those with prediabetes, lose weight and make healthier choices. Numerous clinical studies have demonstrated that weight loss and exercise can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Prevent brings together the individualized attention of a dedicated, professional health coach with a curriculum based on an NIH-sponsored clinical trial that guides participants toward manageable but powerful goals. Combined with an understanding and supportive small group, a flexible online format, and a growing pool of healthy resources, Prevent is a profound, lifestyle-changing experience.

  Omada Health

• SuperTracker

  Registration Required

  This online resource provides individuals with personalized nutrition and physical activity plans, a method for tracking foods and physical activities, and support to make healthier choices and stay on track.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Go4Life: Everyday Exercises from the National Institute on Aging (DVD)

  This DVD, designed for older adults, features strength, balance, and flexibility exercises that can be done at home, at work, or at the gym.

  National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School – Institute of Medicine

  This report provides approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school.

  National Academy of Medicine

• Fit for Two

  This booklet provides tips and ideas to improve your eating plan and become more physically active before, during, and after your pregnancy.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Step by Step (Prevengamos la diabetes tipo 2. Paso a paso)

  This tip sheet helps Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to reduce their risk.En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Change Your Life: “It’s so simple!”

  This guide, designed for Alaskan Natives, shares success stories about how small changes, such as increased physical activity and healthier eating, are helping to prevent or manage diabetes.

  Indian Health Service

• Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

  This tip sheet describes ways to get more active to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

  National Institute on Aging (NIA)

• Choose More than 50 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

  This tip sheet helps African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to lower their risk for diabetes.

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• The Road to Health Toolkit

  This toolkit provides materials to begin a community outreach program with African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes, reinforcing the message that type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented.  CME credit available.En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Overcoming Barriers to Better Fitness

  This podcast offers strategies for addressing patient and practice obstacles related to overweight and obesity issues.  CME credits available.

  American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk: Patient Education Toolkit

  This comprehensive kit includes reproducible patient education handouts on 29 topics related to cardiometabolic risk reduction, prediabetes, diabetes, and CVD.En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• The Weight of the Nation Film 2: Choices—Chapter 8: What Can I Do At Work to Improve My Health?

  This video uses a case study to show healthy activities and habits that can be useful in the workplace. It addresses common pitfalls at work, like unhealthy snacking or eating fast food, and how combat them.

  HBO