Overweight, Nutrition & Physical Exercise

Childhood Overweight: What the Research Tells Us -- A fact sheet

Childhood Overweight: A Select Bibliography 

Issue Brief: The Role of School Health Professionals in Preventing Childhood Overweight. An exploration of issues and opportunities confronting front-line professionals.

School Nurses, School-Based Health Centers and Childhood Overweight: A report from a roundtable meeting to explore the role of school health professionals in preventing childhood overweight
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Conference presentations and resources. School Nurses, School-Based Health Centers and Childhood Overweight

InFocus: Body Mass Index for Children, May 2006 

Resources
This section provides additional resources on childhood overweight, nutrition, and physical exercise including background information, universal approaches and targeted strategies for schools, government resources and reports, and laws and polices.