By GoGirlGo! Atlanta
The Community Resources and Toolkits for Healthy Eating and Active Living is a terrific guide that makes many suggestions for ways to make your community healthier. Provided are two main categories, nutrition and physical activity. Here are brief summaries of each web site and their links.
Nutrition Environments Measures Study (NEMS)
The Nutrition Environments Measures Study (NEMS) focus is to measure the availability of healthy choices, prices and quantities in grocery stores and restaurants. There is a NEMS Basic Workshop where participants learn how to conduct a nutrition environment assessment.
The Food Trust
The Food Trust’s mission is to build strong communities through healthy food. They provide a downloadable packet on How to Start a Healthy Food Market that can be done in schools.
The Environment Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT)
The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments presents the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT) which provides valuable information about nutrition and physical activity with childcare, school, after-school, neighborhood, workplace, healthcare, and government.
On the site there are very helpful suggestions such as a healthy snack and beverage list, healthy beverage resolution, how to incorporate physical activity breaks into a meeting, and many success stories dealing with physical activity and nutrition.
Toolkit and Media Campaign
This guide helps for promoting physical activity, with information on marketing and communications.
Lessons Learned
This website provides examples and lessons from 25 grants at the community level for promoting physical activity.
National Center for Bicycling & Walking
On this site you can find resources such as how-to guides and assesments.
America's Walking
A series about walking, fitness, travel and lifestyles for those who want to start daily walking and live a more active lifestyle.