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Current Topics in School Health

Nutrition

The USDA's New Food Pyramid can be accessed from http://www.mypyramid.gov

Click on the link to identify the nutrition choices that will help you maximize your personal health and nutrition.

Childhood Obesity

Discovery Health

Learn about the latest research on Childhood Obesity, and link to the Discovery Health television program, Childhood Obesity: Combating the Epidemic.

Nationwide Trends in Obesity

A MS Powerpoint presentation produced by the Center for Disease Control

Asthma

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology

Asthma is the most common serious chronic disease of childhood, affecting nearly five million children in the United States. Asthma in children is the cause of almost three million physician visits and 200,000 hospitalizations each year.

California Department of Health Services, Childhood Asthma Initiative

The goals of the Childhood Asthma Initiative (CAI) are to decrease asthma morbidity and to improve the quality of life of children less than five years old with asthma and their families. These goals are to be accomplished by improving the delivery, quality, and coordination of preventive, educational, and medical care services directed toward childhood asthma.

Asthma Trends by County

An Adobe Acrobat file from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

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