Programs & Resource Archive

EveryBody Walk– Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, provides online resources including smart phones apps, blogs, and videos to promote walking 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week in order to prevent chronic diseases like diabetes.

Walking Techniques to Keep Up the Pace By AARP, an overview of the best techniques to maximize and maintain the healthiest physical activity results.

Home Winter WorkoutsBy AARP, also available in Spanish, provides an at-home and little-to-no-equipment exercise regimen composed of aerobic exercise, strength training, and endurance that a person of any age can accomplish.

Frugal Fitness: Stay Fit by Spending Less From gardening to running, AARP provides a list of daily tasks that can also serve as fitness activities. The list provides the amount of money saved, the number of calories burned, and the muscles used for each exercise.

Ideas for ExercisingFrom the American Diabetes Association, has information on finding the right exercise program, stretching and the importance of intensity.

Physical Activity for a Healthy WeightFrom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides a table that lists the amount of calories burned in common physical activities at both the moderate and vigorous levels.

Walkability Workbook Sponsored by the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, the Walkability Workbook is a free guidance document that helps communities understand the tools of walkability and gives community members the resources needed to deliver walkability workshops and conduct walking audits on their own.

Rethink Your Drink An 8-page brochure by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with calorie counts and alternatives to common sweetened beverages. Also provides tips on reading nutrition facts labels.

School Nutritionist Weighs Juices, Sodas From National Public Radio, a question and answer conversation (podcast and transcript) with Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom regarding sports drinks, juice drinks, and diet sodas that are found in schools and alternatives for choosing an appropriate beverage.

Diabetes Diet and Food Tips: Eating to Prevent, Control, and Reverse Diabetes By HelpGuide.org, reviews myths and facts about healthy eating and diabetes and offers tips on choosing higher fiber carbs, being smart about sweets and choosing fats wisely.

Healthy Cooking Recipes By allrecipes.com, lets you search for healthy recipes, including low fat and family friendly. Also provides helpful how-to videos.

Choose MyPlate Campaign Sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture, provides links to dietary guidelines, healthy eating on a budget, and sample menus and recipes. It also provides a SuperTracker link that helps you plan, analyze, and track your diet and physical activity.

Fruits and Veggies – More Matters From the Tennessee Department of Health, provides a chart of nutrients and their benefits, and fruit and vegetable sources for each. A 9-page color handout is also free to download.

HealthyDining Finder By the CDC, National Restaurant Association and other partners, offers a restaurant search features that lets you search for dietician-approved menu items, emphasizing lean proteins, fruits, vegetables, whole grains and unsaturated fats and meet calorie, fat and saturated fat criteria