With 23 states flunking CSPI's report card on school foods, the Center for Science in the Public Interest says Congress should pass national legislation to ensure that all of America's children get healthy foods in their schools all day long.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest urges you to send a letter to KFC President Gregg Dedrick urging him to change KFC's oil. CSPI has filed a class action lawsuit against KFC that aims to eliminate the use of partially hydrogenated oils, which make KFC food dangerously high in trans fat.

The Public Welfare Foundation's Hunger and Nutrition grants average $25,000 and $50,000.

The headline says it all: "Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity." That's the bottom line from a new study in the journal Pediatrics, which finds that areas with higher socio-economic status were significantly more likely than lower-economic and high-minority blocks to have one or more recreational facilities that enable physical activity. This is the first study to look at the disparity in access to recreation sites and the activity and overweight patterns in U.S. teens.

Alarming statistics on the growing numbers of overweight and obese children and teens are getting the attention of school boards, parents, and public health officials. This story, reprinted from Youth Communication's New Youth Connections magazine, is by teen writer Natelege Whaley, who looks at programs aimed at helping teens stay healthy.

Parents work hard to give kids healthy food at home; now they are fighting to get junk food out of schools.

Applications will be available July 1 for technical assistance and support to help schools create healthy environments—and ultimately prevent the epidemic of overweight and obesity among students.

The purpose of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide, developed by the Washington State Department of Health, is to create a comprehensive tool for the prioritization and development of nutrition and physical activity policy options for state, local, regional and private jurisdictions. The resource guide outlines policy options, provides examples of promising and proven policies, and reviews their effectiveness. The nutrition and physical activity policy examples are divided into community, school, worksite and healthcare domains. Institutional and public policy changes are critical to achieving sustained behavioral change. Policy and environmental changes that support healthy communities, healthy organizations and healthy choices are cornerstones in the public health world. This resource provides some promising approaches for addressing obesity, inactivity and poor nutrition.

Priority for Gerber Foundation funding is given to projects that support a specific nutrition or health intervention and have defined outcome parameters to improve infant and young children nutrition, care and development from the first year before birth to three years of age.

This national initiative, supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is dedicated to the principle that "every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice." It offers downloadable resources on topics like nutrition and physical activity.