Tools & Calculators
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General Health
- Health Risk Assessment - Real
Age is an interactive web tool that assesses your health based on an
extensive interview and then provides you with a personalized plan to
feel younger and a list of what’s making you younger or older.
- Return
on Investment Calculator for Worksite Wellness - Use the calculator
to project the impact of evidence-based wellness programs on health care
costs, productivity, and absenteeism at your worksite.
Nutrition
- Alliance for
a Healthier Generation - Tools and information
created by a partnership between the American Heart Association and the
William J. Clinton Foundation that joined together to fight
childhood obesity.
- BMR
(Basal Metabolic Rate) calculator - Calculate how many calories
you burn per day
- Healthy
Schools Product Navigator - Use this free tool to create a shopping
list of foods from companies that have agreed to produce and sell
products to schools that meet the Alliance For a Healthier Generation
healthy snack guidelines.
- Make Your
Calories Count - Make Your Calories Count is an interactive
learning program that provides consumers with information to help plan a
healthful diet while managing calorie intake. The exercises will help
consumers use the food label to make decisions about which food choice
is right for them.
- Menu Planner
- An interactive menu planner designed to guide daily food and meal
choices based on your daily calorie allowance. For directions on how to
use the Menu Planner, click on About the Menu Planner.
- My Pyramid Tracker (Diet
Analysis) - The
online dietary assessment provides information on your diet quality,
related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient information.
- Nutrition
Facts Label Brochure - A
color brochure with information about how to read and what to look for
in food labels.
- Portion Distortion Quiz
- Learn how portion sizes have changed over the years, which may be a
contributing factor to the current rise of overweight and obesity.
- Women's:
My Bright Future - Physical activity and healthy eating tools
for young women.
Physical activity
-
Activity Logs
-
Activity Zone
- A handy form to identify nearby places that you can walk or bike to and be
more active.
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Afterschool
Active Hours - Site for physical activity resources, tools and
information to help afterschool providers and advocates.
- Bikeability
checklist - checklist to rate how friendly your community is
for biking
- Biking route -
Map and measure your own route. Use this tool to view a map and
create your own biking route. The tool lets you choose the route
and automatically calculates the distance.
- Calories
burned per hour - A list of calories burned per hour for common
sports and daily activities. (PDF, 197 KB)
-
Costs of Inactivity - An
easy-to-use tool developed by East Carolina University that provides an
estimate of the financial cost of physically inactive people to a particular
community, city, state or business.
-
Pedometers – How
to Use Pedometers as Part of a Walking Program (PDF,
28 KB)
-
Physical Activity
Brochure (PDF, 902 KB)- Active
Children, Active Families - A Helpful Guide for Parents
-
Walkability
checklist – Checklist to rate how friendly your community is for
walking
- Walking route -
Map and measure your own route. Use this tool to view a map and
create your own walking route. The tool lets you choose the route
and automatically calculates the distance.
- Women's:
My Bright Future - Physical activity and healthy eating tools
for young women.
Overweight & Obesity
(Body Mass Index) calculator = Calculate your BMI
- BMI for Adults
- BMI-for-Children (Body Mass Index) Charts - BMI-for-age charts are
recommended to assess weight in relation to stature for children ages 2
to 20 years; used to determine childhood overweight
-
BMR
(Basal Metabolic Rate) calculator - Calculate how many
calories you burn per day
-
Childhood
Overweight Recommendations - Key recommendations on screening and
interventions for overweight children and adolescents, including clinical
considerations and future research directions.
- Obesity
trends – CDC overview of obesity trends including a Powerpoint
presentation showing visual evidence of the increase in obesity
1985-2002
- Palm Pilot Downloads -
- Prescription
for a Healthier You (PDF, 18 KB) - A "prescription" sheet
that can be used by health care providers to prescribe healthy lifestyle
changes for their patients. A modifiable
Word document that you can adapt to your organization is also
available.
- Weighing
and Measuring in Schools (PDF, 1.69 MB) -
This document has been developed with the following objectives: 1) to
help schools to be better informed when making the decision of whether
or not to weigh and measure students; 2) to provide guidance and policy
recommendations to schools that choose to weigh and measure students:
and 3) to provide resources for schools to create environments
supportive of healthy lifestyles. To order a hard copy, contact Mary
Pesik.
Creating Active Communities and Environments
What Works – Advice and samples of successful physical activity
programs
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