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One way to cut out sugar and caffeine from your child's diet is to eliminate soda or pop. Offer water, flavored seltzer, or diluted juice as beverages. *

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists.
Obesity in Children and Teens. Facts for Families.
www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/79.htm

American Academy of Family Physicians.
Obesity and Children: Helping Your Child Keep a Healthy Weight.
www.familydoctor.org/handouts/344.html

American Academy of Family Physicians.
Obesity and Children: Helping Your Child Lose Weight.
www.familydoctor.org/handouts/343.html

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases.
Weight Control Information Network. Helping Your Overweight Child. No. 97-4096, January 1997.
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/over_child.htm

Obesity at School

Gortmaker, Steven L. et al.
Impact of a School-Based Interdisciplinary Intervention on Diet and Physical Activity Among Urban Primary School Children.
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 153:975-983. 1999.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/153/9/975

Gortmaker, Steven L. et al.
Reducing Obesity via a School-Based Interdisciplinary Intervention Among Youth: Planet Health.
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 153:409-418. 1999.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/153/4/409

National Association of School Psychologists.
Obesity Prevention in Children: Strategies for Parents and School Personnel.
www.nasponline.org/publications/cq/cq333obesity.aspx

Robinson, Thomas N.
Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity.
Journal of the American Medical Association, 282:1561-1567. 1999.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/282/16/1561

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Food and Nutrition Information Center.
Childhood Obesity: A Food and Nutrition Resource List for Educators and Researchers.
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/topics/weight/childhoodobesity.html

Other Info

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools.
Childhood Obesity: What the Research Tells Us. 2003.
http://www.healthinschools.org/sh/obesityfs.asp

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools.
The George Washington University.
Keeping Kids Healthy: Obesity, Nutrition, and Physical Exercise Resources.
www.healthinschools.org/sh/obesity.asp

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CDC.
National Center for Health Statistics.
Health E Stats – Prevalence of Overweight Among Children
www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/overwght99.htm

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Office of the Surgeon General.
Overweight and Obesity. 2001.
www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_adolescents.htm


*Fact Box Reference

Nemours Foundation. Kids Health. Caffeine, Fat, Sugar, and Your Child. Accessed on the web at http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/food/general/caffeine.html