NCSL Physical Activity Publications and Resources

  Healthy Community Design

An NCSL Web page on a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase state legislators awareness of their role in increasing their constituents' opportunities to ride a bicycle or walk in their everyday activities to achieve public health benefits.

Percentage of Adults Who Reported No Leisure Time Physical Activity, 2001

An NCSL postcard describing why physical activity is important in the prevention of chronic diseases and displaying the rate of physical inactivity in adults in the United States.

 Percentage of Overweight U.S. Children and Teens

An NCSL postcard charting the obesity epidemic in children and teens from 1963 to 2000.

Physical Activity and Walkable Communities

An NCSL document describing physical inactivity and obesity and what actions the federal government and states are taking to increase walking and bicycling as a part of everyday life.

On Your Feet, Kids

An article from State Legislatures Magazine about the KidsWalk-to-School program.

Physical Activity Resources

 American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on the Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity

This statement proposes strategies for early identification of excessive weight gain by using body mass index, for dietary and physical activity interventions during health supervision encounters and for research.

The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 2001

A new action plan from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's State-based Physical Activity Program Directory

A directory of physical activity programs involving state departments of health that includes general profiles and contact information.