In San Mateo
Click here for local data. You will be directed to the San Mateo County specific section of the www.gethealthysmc.org website.
In California
Data on six Bay area counties including San Mateo presented with information available for cities and school districts. Data presented by region, topic or demographic.
Network for a Healthy California - GIS Map Viewer is an interactive program that allows users to view maps containing nutrition data like where WIC grocery stores and other local nutrition resources are located.
Designed for Disease. Info on the link between the food environment, obesity, and diabetes.
California Adolescent and Nutrition Fitness (CANFit) Program published:
Nutrition and Fitness Data for California’s Low-Income Latino Youth
Nutrition and Fitness Data for California’s Low-Income Multi-Ethnic Youth
Nutrition and Fitness Data for California’s Low-Income African American Youth
Nutrition and Fitness Data for California’s Low-Income American Indian Youth
Nutrition and Fitness Data for California’s Low-Income Asian/Pacific Islander Youth
Learn how well your school did on the 2007 California Physical Fitness Test. Learn specific information for your school, your school district, or county.
The California Healthy Kids Survey is another self-reported survey about the health of youth in your school, district, or community in California. Data is available for San Mateo County beginning in the Spring of 1999. Some school districts have elementary and secondary school reports.
In the U.S.
The California Adolescent Health Collaborative gives information on California adolescents' nutrition and physical activity practices and behaviors and examples of current ways people are trying to improve nutrition and physical activity.
The Institute of Medicine’s Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention links to different studies and reports on preventing childhood obesity; food marketing to children and youth; and nutrition standards for food in schools.
Click here for information from PedNSS on children who are less than five and who are overweight.
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) compiled ‘F as In Fat Report: How Obesity Policies are Failing America’ (August 2008). Adult obesity rates rose in 31 states in 2006. Twenty-two states experienced an increase for the second year in a row; no states decreased.
Childhood Obesity in the United States: Facts and Figures (Institute of Medicine, September 2004)