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Understand how to address weight issues in children and teens with healthy guidelines, links to interactive and skill-building tools, and more.
Find information to help your family stay healthy, including weight basics, eating right, and more.
Explains how Body Mass Index (BMI) is used differently in children than in adults and provides information on calculating and interpreting BMI for children and teens.
Find information for girls to learn about overweight and obesity, calories, and a healthy weight.
Find tips and resources for parents to help children develop a healthy body image and learn healthy eating and physical activity habits. Also available in Spanish.
Learn how to make healthy choices with games, quizzes, and other interactive features that cover topics such as food, nutrition, physical activity, and safety.
Fuel Up to Play 60, the leading in-school health and wellness program empowers students and educators to work together to build healthier schools and create healthy, high achieving students.
Read about how parents or guardians can help prevent childhood overweight and obesity.
This collection of resources provides parents and caregivers, health care providers, and partners with tools and information to help children and teens maintain a healthy weight and prevent obesity.