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Health and Fitness Websites

LiveFit NH
This new NHPTV community engagement project is designed to encourage healthy eating and physical activity in children and adults. With its partner organizations statewide, LiveFIT NH will demonstrate-through television segments, education and outreach activities, and online resources-how individuals, families, schools and communities can combat obesity trends so all Granite Staters can live fit and well.

Action for Healthy Kids
This nonprofit organization formed specifically to address the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes at school.

Kids Health
There's lots to do and loads to learn at this site from the Nemours Foundation. You can play games, explore cool animations of how your body works, find out how medicine works, check out a list of weird medical words and find out what they mean, read about how to eat for sports, check out the Food Guide Pyramid, and learn about different ways to get exercise.

Your Gross and Cool Body
Vomit, spit, dandruff, zits, and hiccups. Find out how your body works with Wendall the Worm.

BAM! Body and Mind
You can learn about physical and mental health at this site from the Centers for Disease Control. You'll find fact sheets, activities, and meet the expert profiles.

Nutrition Cafe
Who said you shouldn't play with your food? At this site from the Pacific Science Center and the Washington State Dairy Council, you can be a nutrition sleuth and find the missing nutrient, play the Grab a Grape game and test you food knowledge, or build a menu and see how nutritious it is.

PBS Teacher Source - Health and Fitness
You'll find lesson plans and activities here. You can locate resources by grade range and topic.

Parents Action for Children
This site features articles, news, and advocacy resources.

Circusfit
Make fitness and nutrition fun with this site from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.

Nutrition Explorations
This site from the National Dairy Council features nutrition resources for parents and teachers.

Supermarket Safari
Go on a trek into the grocery store to find healthy food at this site from Idaho Public Television.

Watch Your Mouth
Learn more about oral health at this site from the Watch Your Mouth Coalition.

UNH Cooperative Extension
UNH Cooperative Extension provides community training in a variety of topics including family health and nutrition.

My Pyramid
Find out what foods and amounts that are right for you.at this site from the USDA!



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10/13 The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush (Show 708)
A young Indian boy follows his vision quest to find the special gift he can bring to his people in the featured book by New Hampshire author and illustrator Tomie dePaola. Levar visits Dominic Arquero, a Native America painter who lives in a pueblo in New Mexico. Dolly Naranjo, with her daughter and mother, show how they make traditional pottery from mixing clay and shaping pots to finishing them. The Concha family prepare for and perform a traditional Pueblo dance. 2002 NH Outlook interview with Tomie dePaola in his New London home. >> View Video Note: You will need RealPlayer to access this video.



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