Welcome to KidsHealth!
If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.KidsHealth is more than just the facts about health. As part of The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, KidsHealth also provides families with perspective, advice, and comfort about a wide range of physical, emotional, and behavioral issues that affect children and teens.
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was established in 1994 to improve the nutrition and well-being of Americans. Toward this goal, the Center focuses its efforts on two primary objectives:
1.Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans, and
2.Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics.
The Center's core projects to support its objectives are the following:
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
USDA Food Guidance System (MyPlate, MyPyramid, Food Guide Pyramid)
Healthy Eating Index
U.S. Food Plans
Nutrient Content of the U.S. Food Supply
Expenditures on Children by Families
We believe that interactive stories can change your mind, and role-playing video games can change your life. That's why we created Playnormous, a storied world that teaches, trains and changes health behaviors.
What kind of health behavior could stories and video games improve? Consider this: obesity is now the single most preventable cause of death in the world, exceeding even smoking. Two-thirds of the US population is overweight or obese, and obesity among children has become epidemic. Once weight is on, it's difficult to lose. At 10 years old, the likelihood of an overweight child becoming an obese adult increases several times. We have been working with the National Institutes of Heath and researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center to develop interactive media that improve children's diet and physical activity behaviors. Playnormous puts the power of this research into the hands of kids. Our goal is a healthier generation of children.