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Nutrition and Fitness

Related Services

• Children's Obesity Action Team

Health & Safety Videos

Related Clinical Studies

• Travel Assessment Community Project (TRAC)
  A study to learn more about how a person's neighborhood relates to their activity, where they go and their overall well-being.
• Familial Overweight: Comparing Use of Strategies (FOCUS) Project:
  A study to learn more about how to help children and families struggling with overweight make better eating and activity choices that result in better weight management.

• Nutrition & Fitness Center
• Bike Safety
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Body Mass Index (BMI) Charts
• Breastfeeding vs. Formula Feeding
• Caffeine and Your Child
• Calcium and Your Child
• Carbohydrates, Sugar, and Your Child
• Cholesterol and Your Child
• Cold-Weather Sports and Your Family
• Compulsive Exercise
• Deciphering Food Labels
• Do You Know How to Feed Your Child Athlete?
• Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders Booklist and Resources (PDF 146KB)
• Egg Allergy
• Egg Allergy Diet
• Exercise and Children (PDF 80KB) (Español)
• Failure to Thrive
• Fats and Your Child
• Feeding Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
• Feeding Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
• Feeding Your 4- to 7-Month-Old
• Feeding Your 8- to 12-Month-Old
• Feeding Your Newborn
• Fiber and Your Child
• Fitness and Your 2- to 3-year-old
• Fitness and Your 4- to 5-year-old
• Fitness and Your 6- to 12-year-old
• Fitness and Your 13- to 18-year-old
• Fitness for Families (PDF 61KB)
• Fitness for Kids Who Don't Like Sports
• Food Allergies
• Food Safety for Your Family
• Healthful High-Fiber Snack Combinations (PDF 171KB)
• Healthy Eating
• Healthy Lifestyle: Helpful Ideas from Parents (PDF 128KB) Español (PDF 853KB)
• Helping Kids Make Healthy Choices (PDF 122KB)
• Hunger and Malnutrition
• Indoor Activity Kit
• Iron and Your Child
• Kids and Exercise
• Language Development in Young Children
• Milk Allergy Diet
• Natural Laxative Recipes (PDF 90KB) Español (PDF 194KB)
• Nut and Peanut Allergy
• Nut and Peanut Allergy Diet
• Osgood-Schlatter Disease
• Overweight and Obesity
• Preventing Children's Sports Injuries
• Raising a Fit Preschooler
• Saving Dollars on Food (PDF 89KB) Español (PDF 109KB)
• School Lunches
• Speech Development in Young Children
• Sportsmanship
• Strength Training and Your Child
• Stuttering and the Young Child
• The Food Guide Pyramid
• TV, Computers and the Internet: Take Charge of Screen Time (PDF 165KB)
• Vegetarianism
• What Is a Pedometer? (PDF 61KB) Español (PDF 136 KB)
• What You Should Know About Steroids
• Your Child's Weight

Children's provides health care for the special needs of children regardless of race, sex, creed, ethnicity or disability.
Financial assistance for medically necessary services is based on family income and hospital resources and is provided
to children under age 21 whose primary residence is Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.