This page is designed for community leaders to share documents with a focus on health, fitness, nutrition, and planning for healthy communities.

Centers for Disease Control Diabetes Program: National Diabetes Education Program
Tools to improve the treatment and outcomes of diabetes in individuals, families, communities and health care systems.

Department of Health and Human Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Healthier Worksite Initiative
Information, resources and step-by-step toolkits to help improve employee health.

Diabetes at Work
Tools to help businesses and managed care companies to assess the impact of diabetes in the workplace, and provide intuitive information to help employees manage their diabetes and take steps toward reducing risks for related complications, such as heart disease.

Florida Department of Health: Hispanic Obesity Prevention and Education Program
Program to promote increased physical activity, healthy nutrition and appropriate food portion sizes among people living in Florida.

Healthy Vending Guidelines
Lists alternative snacks and beverages and reasons why they are healthy

Lake County: Florida Electronic Federal Depository Library
This website links to several departments and services in Lake County, Fla.

Making Systems Change for Better Diabetes Care
Information, models, links, resources and tools to help health care professionals impact diabetes.

The Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report, 2008 is the product of the 13 member Advisory Committee and more than 30 additional consultants. You can access the report by clicking the Report link at http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/
The 683 page report can be viewed or downloaded in its entirety or by individual chapter. The report presents and summarizes the Advisory Committee’s review of science relating physical activity to a variety of health outcomes. It also addresses the benefits of physical activity for particular subgroups of the population such as children and youth, pregnant and postpartum women, persons with disabilities, and individuals with some chronic conditions. The report will be a valuable resource for students,researchers, or anyone interested in the health benefits of physical activity. It provides the scientific basis for the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, which is currently being developed by the Department of Health and Human Services for a planned fall 2008 launch.

Vistar Corporation: Smart Snacks
Lists nutrition information for brand name snacks.

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