Guidelines for Physical Activity & Nutrition
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010: Published every five years since 1980, the guidelines provide evidence-based nutrition information and advice for people age 2 and older.
- Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults: From the National Institute on Aging, learn the benefits of exercise for older adults, how to get started, exercises to try, and how to stay active.
- 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans: The first-ever Federal guidelines for physical activity describe the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans.
Federal Reports & Plans
- Healthy People 2020: Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
- Healthy People 2010 Final Review – Complete Report: The end-of-decade assessment tracks physical activity, nutrition, and obesity objectives and goals set in 2000.
- The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation: U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin's plan to reverse the trend of increasing obesity across the nation and achieve optimal health for all Americans at every stage of life.
- White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President: An inter-agency plan that details a coordinated strategy, identifies key benchmarks, and outlines an action plan to end the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. The goal of the action plan is to reduce the childhood obesity rate to just five percent by 2030 – the same rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s.
Legislation
- Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity State Legislative Database: Search state Legislative and regulation actions related to obesity, nutrition, and physical activity topics by state, bill, status, year, topic, and setting.
- State-Based Physical Activity Program Directory: The state-based directory provides information about physical activity programs involving state departments of health.
Statistics & Indicators
- 2010 Shape of the Nation : Provides a current picture of physical education in the American education system.
- State Indicator Report on Physical Activity: National and state-specific information around physical activity behavior, policy, and environmental supports are included.
- U.S. Physical Activity Statistics: Physical activity data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System captures responses to physical activity questions that measure a person's physical activity in leisure-time, household, and transportation.