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Australia’s Physical Activity Recommendations for 5-12 year olds
Active kids are healthy kids.

Australia’s Physical Activity Recommendations for 12 – 18 year olds
Get out and get active.

Physical Activity and Nutrition Outside School Hours (PANOSH)
A series of four booklets to assist out of school hours facilities to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
The PANOSH package includes documents on the following topics:

Fact sheet: Activity Patterns of Queenslanders, children and adolescents
Discusses physical activity trends and provides guidelines for what children and adolescents should be doing.

Active-Ate
Activate is a school based program designed to increase knowledge and awareness of healthy eating and physical activity among students of primary school age and the wider school community. It also promotes the adoption of healthy eating practices and physically active lifestyles by children.

Be Active Australia: A Framework for Health Sector Action for Physical Activity, 2005–2010
This framework has been developed by the Strategic Inter-Governmental forum on Physical Activity and Health, a subcommittee of the National Public Health Partnership. Be Active Australia is endorsed by Heath Ministers as part of a national response to evidence of growing levels of physical inactivity and its negative impact on the health and wellbeing for Australians of all ages.

Be Active Queensland - 2006-2010 represents a collaborative approach to provide a framework for coordinated action to increase physical activity, by the health sector. This framework was developed through the Queensland Public Health Forum, an alliance of 18 government and non-government organisations.

Active Australia – Everyone wants to be more active…the problem is getting started
Brochure outlining how to make physical activity a part of your lifestyle.

Physical Activity and Health, A report of the Surgeon General, 1996
The report is a comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence about the relationship between physical activity and health status.

Eat Well Be Active Healthy Kids for Life is Queensland Government's Action Plan to achieve healthier weight in Queensland children and young people.

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Last Updated: 10 January 2008
Last Reviewed: 04 July 2007