- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- Partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, aiming to fight childhood obesity. Browse through their programmes for schools, the food and beverage industry, and parents, or become a part of their Go Healthy Challenge. - Childhood Obesity: Parenting Advice
- Offers tips for parents to help overweight children build and maintain a positive self-image as well as lose weight. From the Mayo Clinic. - Commercial Alert: Childhood Obesity Overview
- Articles and news releases about childhood obesity. - Get Kids in Action
- Offers ideas for healthy, fun activities, nutritional information that's relevant to kids, and straight talk on the myths and facts surrounding childhood obesity. - Kaiser Family Foundation: The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity
- Reviews more than 40 studies on the role of media in the nation's dramatically increasing rates of childhood obesity. - Kid Source Online: Childhood Obesity
- Information including defining obesity in children, problems, treatment, and prevention. - Overweight in Children and Adolescents
- From the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. - Word on Health: Childhood Obesity on the Rise
- From the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Offers advice to parents, including information resources and tips for helping children maintain a healthy body weight.
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