Healthy Weight for Children

Helping children achieve and maintain a healthy weight requires support from children, families and primary care providers. The Connecticut Center for Primary Care has compiled the following resources to provide you with information about weight related issues. Please contact your primary care provider directly to discuss your personal concerns about your or your child’s weight.

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Local Resources

• Connecticut Children’s Medical Center T.E.A.M Club

Government sponsored, focused on children achieving and maintaining healthy weight.

• CDC: BAM! Body and Mind: Fit4Life (Children ages 9-13)
• USDA: Food and Nutrition Information Center
• USDA: Food Guide Pyramid
• Gov: Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005
• Department of Health and Human Services: President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
• Private/Nemours Foundation: KidsHealth (for parents/kids/teens)

If you are a community based service that helps patients and their families work to maintain healthy weight, please contact us for a possible link on this site.