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American Cancer Society
This home site for the ACS often features articles on exercise and a healthy diet, both of which are valid topics for obesity studies.

American Diabetes Association
Since the road to obesity and the road to diabetes is often a parallel road, much of the information offered to diabetics also serves as good advise on avoiding obesity.

American Dietetic Association
The American Dietetic Association provides information and tips on maintaining a healthy diet. Included is a "Find a Dietitian" service.

American Heart Association
The American Heart Association offers tips on health, meal planning, cooking and exercise programs since part of maintaining a healthy heart is avoiding obesity. Patient education material as well as information for researchers is available.

Canadian Dietitians
This website is maintained by the Dietitians of Canada and provides information on food choices, activity patterns, and healthy weight. It also furnishes personalized feedback to help achieve healthy eating habits, maintain active living goals, and answer nutrition questions.

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
This site, sponsored by USDA, features information on different programs such as The Healthy Eating Index: 1999-2000 ; the second brochure in a series on Putting the Guidelines Into Practice ; Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals ; and the Food Guide Pyramid for Young Children .

Dieting and Weight Control
FirstGov for Consumers is a "one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available online. Information is located by categories such as food, health, product safety, money, and transportation. Each category has subcategories linking to areas within individual federal web sites containing related information.

Government Reports On Nutrition Research
Government reports found at the USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center cover such topics as portion control, comparative health risks of obesity, spread of obesity, and how it relates to health.

Evaluating a Weight Loss Program
This website offers a detailed checklist for evaluating weight loss products and services. The sponsors of the site, the Partnership for Healthy Weight Management, include organizations and individuals from industry, public advocacy organizations, government agencies, scientific associations and universities.

Nutrition Data
Everything you want to know about food content in terms of fats, carbohydrates, protein, sodium and other nutrients can be found on this easy-to-use site. Choose from a host of foods and immediately click to find their nutrition data. The familiar USDA Nutrition Facts label is listed for each food. The food in question is also pinpointed on a nutrient triangle graphically showing percentages of carbohydrates, fats and protein.

Nutrition Education
This site serves as a gateway to nutrition information across the agencies of the Federal Government. Additionally, the site also links to food assistance programs such as the Food Stamp Program; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; and the School Lunch and Breakfast programs. Also included are links to federally supported research, reports, and brochures as well as funding opportunities in the federal government.

Nutrition and Physical Activity - Overweight and Obesity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a comprehensive overview of overweight and obesity. It focuses on definitions, trends, contributing factors, health consequences and recommendations.

Nutrition Facts Panel
Guidance on How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Panel on Food Labels , prepared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, helps consumers understand the Nutrition Facts found on commercial food containers.

Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
This website is maintained by a coalition of representatives from science, academia, the health care profession, government, commercial enterprises, and organizations whose published mission is to promote sound guidance on strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Latest news releases on weight loss plus brochures, campaigns and goals can be found on this site.

Project Waistline
The Federal Trade Commission hosts this site to assist individuals in assessing various weight loss claims. It also has an area where consumers may file complaints about false claims.

Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better
This site is part of a national initiative designed to encourage Black women 18 and over to maintain a healthy weight by becoming more physically active and eating healthier foods. It is sponsored by Weight-control Information Network, a national information service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

USDA Food Guide Pyramid
This booklet introduces The Food Guide Pyramid, which illustrates the research-based food guidance system developed by USDA and supported by the Department of Health and Human Services. It goes beyond the "basic four food groups" to help individuals put the dietary guidelines into action.

Weight Control Publications and Resources
USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center provides a Weight Control and Obesity Resource List for Consumers on this site.

Weight Loss and Control
Sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, this site features articles such as Active at Any Size , Binge Eating Disorder , Fit and Fabulous As You Mature , and Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity .

WIN: Weight-control Information Network
The Weight-control Information Network is a national information service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health. It was established to provide health professionals and consumers with science-based information on obesity, weight control, and nutrition. The site contains a variety of different information sources including fact sheets, brochures, article reprints, and conference and workshop proceedings.

Parents Helping Children

Government Reports
Include Info On Childhood Obesity
Government reports found at the USDA's Food and Nutrition Information Center include studies on obesity such as "Prevalence of Overweight Among Children and Adolescents: United State, 1999," "Childhood Obesity: A Lifelong Threat to Health," and "Overweight Children, Is Parental Knowledge a Factor?".

Helping Your Overweight Child
Sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, this website helps to answer such issues as the causes of overweight children, assessing whether or not a child is overweight, and how to help a child develop good attitudes toward eating.

Preventing Childhood Obesity: Tips for Parents
This paper presents an overall view of childhood obesity as well as a number of easy-to-follow tips to implement. It appears in the Mealtime Memo for Child Care from the National Food Service Management Institute, University of Mississippi. It was written by Susan S. Fiore, M.S., R.D., Coordinator, Nutrition Education and Training Office of Child Nutrition, Connecticut State Department of Education.

For Children

BAM! Body and Mind
Geared to appeal to children, this site, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focuses on all aspects of a healthy child's life. It gives tips on keeping fit by participating in different sports, preventing disease, having a healthy mental attitude, and more.

EatFit
Sponsored by the University of California-Davis, this website is geared to teenagers and offers a fitness evaluation, games, recipes, success stories, and an eating analysis.

Food and My World
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has designed this site to appeal to children concerned with proper nutrition and features such items as nutrition-related games, puzzles and poems.

Kidnetic
The International Food Information Council Foundation sponsors this child-friendly site featuring recipes, physical activities, games, and other information geared to helping a child stay fit.

Project Lean
This site promotes healthy eating and exercise by appealing to school children and is sponsored by California Project LEAN's "Food on the Run" program. Quick food facts, recipes, and other tips are included.

Take Charge of Your Health
This site is billed as a "Teenager's Guide to Better Health" and is sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. It focuses on such topics as getting started on a weight control program, making physical activity less of a chore, getting moving, watching what you eat, and other healthful tips.

VERB
Using cartoon characters as vehicles of communication, this site is devoted to helping children stay active as a way to promote physical fitness. It is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.