Visit the links below for helpful information on nutrition and physical activity.

• 5 A Day! Dole - http://www.dole5aday.com
• Action For Healthy Kids - www.actionforhealthykids.org
• Action for Healthy Kids! Soda Tool Kit - http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/AFH K/team_center/team_resources/NH/NH bS_Soda Toolkit.pdf  
• Administration for Children and Families- www.nccic.caliber.com/fitsource 
• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance,- http://www.aahperd.org
• Rhode Island branch of AAHPERD http://www.riahperd.org
• American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Soft brinks in Schools, January, 2004 http://www.aap.org/policy/s010119.html
• American Cancer Society! Healthy Schools Healthy Kids - http://www.schoolhealth.info/
• American Heart Association - http://www.americanheart.org
• Better and Worse Snacks - Foods and brinks for School Vending Machines. Center for Science in the Public Interest, 2003. - http://www.cspinet.org
• Connecticut Standards for Healthy Snack Foods and Beverages. Connecticut Team Nutrition, draft May, 2004
• Do It With Dairy/ Trans Fat information - http://www.doitwithdairy.com/lowtransfat/
• Georgetown University! Bright Futures - http://www.briqhtfutures.org/nutritionfamfact/index.html
• Guidelines for Choosing Healthier Snacks and Vending Items. Kids First, Rhode Island 2003
• Iowa State University Extension! Food for Fitness c Fun - www.extension.iastate.edu/food/
• Kids First of Rhode Island - www.kidsfirstri.org
• Kids Health from the Nemours Foundation - www.kidshealth.org
• Menu for Change: Getting Healthy Foods into Schools (Stony field Farm) http://www.stonyfield.com
• Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook: Eating to Fuel Your Active Lifestyle. Nancy Clark, Leisure Press, 1990
• National Center for Disease Prevention - www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/index.htm
• National Dairy Council - www.nationaldairycouncil.org
• National Conference of State Legislatures- www.ncls.org/programs/health
• New England Dairy & Food Council - www.newenqlanddairycouncil.org
• No Junk Food - http://www.nojunkfood.org
• Nutrition Explorations - www.nutritionexplorations.org
• Pricing and promotion effects on low-fat vending snack purchases: the CHIPS study. French 5, Jeffery R, Story M et al. American Journal of Public Health 2001; 91:1120117. http://www.ajph.org/cqi/content/abstract/91/1/112
• School Nutrition Association - http://www.asfsa.org
• The American Dietetic Association - http://www.eatright.org
• The American Dietetics Association’s Complete Food & Nutrition Guide. Duyff, Roberta Larson, MS, RD, CFCS, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.
• The Center for Health & Health Care in Schools - www.healthinschools.org
• United States Department of Agriculture - http://www.usda.gov

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