Helpful links:

• Action for Healthy Kids
• Healthier Schools New Mexico
• New Mexico Pediatric Society
• CDC: NM-Based Programs on Overweight and Obesity
• New Mexico Assembly on School-Based Health
• AAFP Policy & Advocacy

Policy & Advocacy

The New Mexico Academy of Family Physicians have resolved to tackle important policy issues affecting New Mexico's children:

• Resolution in support of preventing and decreasing the epidemic of obesity in children in New Mexico by implementing nutrition standards in NM public schools
  
  
• Resolution in support of preventing and decreasing the epidemic of obesity in children in New Mexico by implementing quality, daily physical education in New Mexico’s public schools