HEALTH AND NUTRITION RESOURCES

We have provided you links to current topics regarding, healthy eating and food sensitivities and food allergies, importance of making physical activity a part of best practices for children and families, sun safety, common childhood illnesses. We hope you find them helpful.

Here is a link to the Arizona Department of Health Services information about the Empower Pack Program that the CDL participates in:

• Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Smoke Free
• Injury Prevention
• Early Childhood Development
• Kid-Focused
• Healthy Pregnancies
• Oral Health

Food Allergy Information

http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/oeh/fses/pdf/allergies1007.pdf

http://www.foodallergy.org/

Smoking Prevention and Kids

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/facts_issues/fact_sheets/toll/tobacco_kids/

Smoking Cessation

http://www.smokefreearizona.org/links-resources.asp

Second Hand Smoke

http://azdhs.gov/tobaccofreeaz/

CDL Handouts for Families

Should Joey Stay Today? Parent's Guide for Sick Days

Tree Nut Allergies

Wash Your Hands! Be a Germ Buster

Is It a Cold or the Flu?