Newsletters

Get information about healthy recipes, community events, expert wellness advice and other important health news to help you lead a healthier lifestyle.

2013

• Winter 2013 (pdf)

2012

• October 2012 (pdf)
• July 2012 (pdf)
• April 2012 (pdf)
• January 2012 (pdf)

Ways to Get Active

• Let's Move
• Jump Start Your Family (pdf)

Healthy Meal Planning

• Spark Recipes
• Food Insight
• Choose My Plate

Support Your Healthy Lifestyle

• American Heart Association
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Healthy Families America
• Action for Healthy Kids
• National Childhood Obesity Foundation
• Weight Control Information Network
• Robert Woods Johnson Foundation

Kids Zone

• Kidnetic
• Spark Teens
• KC Kids Fun
• Kids Health

Healthy Recreation

Greater Kansas City

• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Boys and Girls Club
• Don Bosco Informational flyer(English/en Español)
• YMCA

Missouri

• Clay County Parks and Recreation
• Grandview Parks and Recreation
• Independence Parks and Recreation
• Jackson County Parks and Recreation
• Kansas City Parks and Recreation
• North Kansas City Community Center

Kansas

• Johnson County Parks and Recreation
• Overland Park Parks and Recreation
• Olathe Parks and Recreation
• Wyandotte County

Omaha

• Boys and Girls Clubs of Omaha and Council Bluffs
• Girls Inc. of Omaha
• Live Well Omaha Kids
• Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
• Omaha Parks & Recreation Centers
• Parks and Recreation Programs
• YMCA

Iowa

• Boys and Girls Clubs of Omaha and Council Bluffs
• Community Health Center
• Live healthy Iowa

En Espanol

• Dale un empujo a tu familia (pdf)

Suggested Reading

Recommended books about weight management for children and parents.

Beacon Street Girls Series
by Annie Bryant (reading for girls 9-13 years)

Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense
by Ellyn Satter

Health at Every Size 
by Linda Bacon, PhD

How to Get Your Kid to Eat…But Not Too Much 
by Ellyn Satter

I'm like, so Fat! 
by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer Ph.D (reading for parents)

Intuitive Eating 
by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Trim Kids 
by Melinda Sothern, PhD