BRIGHT FUTURES MATERIALS
FOR PROVIDERS

Counseling Support Tool that provides:

• Information on how to review the patients' answers to questions

• Guidance on how to make recommendations based on patients' answers

BMI-for-Age Percentiles Chart (for young women)

Speaker Notes:

Provider materials consist of:

1. A Counseling Support Tool that:

• Shows how to assess patients' answers to questions in the Guide

• Links unhealthy answers (e.g., eating fruit only once a day) to recommendations that you can give to patients, such as "eat at least 1 ½ to 2 cups of fruit daily"

• Provides federal guidelines

• Recommends behavioral improvements or changes (e.g., eat more servings of fruit, drink 100% fruit juice)

• Provides information on where to refer patients for more information

• Is easy-to-use

2. Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-Age Percentiles Chart from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that:

   • Enables you or staff to record the body mass index-for-age percentiles of young women up to 20 years of age once the patient's BMI is calculated

   • Provides the formula for calculating BMI

   • Determines whether the patient is underweight, at risk for overweight, or overweight