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- Tipping the Scales Toward a Healthier Population: The Utah Blueprint to Promote Healthy Weight for Children, Youth, and Adults - May 2006
- Tipping the Scales Toward a Healthier Population - A Report of Overweight and Obesity in Utah - August 2005 (Entire report is large - 5MB) You may also download the report by section:
- Acknowledgments, Table of Contents and List of Figures
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overweight and Obesity by Age
- Chapter 2: Overweight and Obesity and Co-Existing Chronic Conditions
- Chapter 3: Lifestyle and Genetic Factors
- Chapter 4: Systems Issues and Environmental Barriers to Overweight & Obesity Control
- Chapter 5: Opportunities for Action
- Chapter 6: Examples of Success
- References
- Appendix A, or B, or C, or D, or E, or F, or G
- Utah Health Status Update, Pregnancy Weight Gain, February 2008
- Utah Health Status Update, Overweight/Obese, September 2007
- Childhood Overweight in Utah (PDF 453KB)
- What Schools Can Do (PDF 284KB)
- What Families Can Do (PDF 180 KB)
- What Communities Can Do (PDF 166KB)
- What Health Care Systems Can Do (PDF 429KB)
- What the Media Can Do (PDF 243KB)
- What Worksites Can Do (PDF 324 KB)
- Utah Small Area Obesity Information (PDF)
- Utah Small Area Overweight or Obese Information (PDF)
- Utah BRFSS Small Area Report, 2001-2005
- IBIS Indicator for adult obesity
- IBIS Indicator for adult overweight or obese
- IBIS Indicator for children & adolescents overweight & obesity
- Maternal Body Mass Index and Pregnancy Outcomes in Utah (125KB PDF)
- Trust for America's Health - F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2007 - web site
- Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - web site
- The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent & Decrease Obesity, 2001 (599KB PDF)
- A Healthier You Legacy Awards - web site
- AFHK Nutrition Policy Recommendations (589KB PDF)
- AFHK Physical Activity Policy Recommendations (594KB PDF)
- AFHK Wellness Policy Recommendations (542KB PDF)
- American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement (73KB PDF)
- Breastfeeding Resources on the Utah Breastfeeding Coalition Web site
- CDC Overweight and Obesity - web site
- CDC Adult and Child/Teen BMI Calculators - web site
- Check Your Health - web site
- Childhood Obesity Action Network (COAN)
- Community-based programs for parents, care-givers and kids - web site
- Fit Source interactive web site for child care and after school providers - web site
- Gold Medal Miles - web site
- Gold Medal Schools Information - web site
- Governor Huntsman’s Work Well Initiative - web site
- HHS Office of Surgeon General Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative - web site
- Intermountain Healthcare Obesity Prevention Strategies for Physicians - web site
- Medical Home Newsletter/Childhood Obesity (266KB PDF)
- Moving to the Future - web site
- A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States - web site
- National Conference of State Legislators resource on legislation for 2005
- National League of Cities - Institute for Youth, Education, & Families - web site
- Obesity and Genetics - CDC's monthly Public Health Perspective - web site
- Obesity Fact Sheets on the Healthy Youth site - web site
- Overview of IOM's Childhood Obesity Prevention Study - web site
- National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) - web site
- Power in You - web site
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation summary of states' legislation passed in 2005 on obesity, nutrition and physical activity (1.12MB PDF)
- Smoking cessation and weight gain (PDF on the smokefree.gov web site)
- Tips for a Healthy Family Lifestyle (112KB PDF)
- Tool Kit on Trends & Policy Solutions for Adult & Youth Obesity - web site
- University of Utah Nutrition Clinic - web site
- Utah Council for Worksite Health Promotion - web site
