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Nutrition and Weight Control


Organizations 

- American Dietetic Association

- American Gastroenterological Association

- American Obesity Association

- Michigan Dietetic Association

- National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

- Southeastern Michigan Dietetic Association





This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-3513.

General Information

- Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

- FASTATS: Overweight Prevalence (National Center for Health Statistics)

- Food and Nutrition Information Center (National Agricultural Library)

- MEDLINEplus: Obesity

- MEDLINEplus: Weight Loss and Dieting

- MEDLINEplus: Nutrition

- NUTRITION.GOV

- Nutrition Navigator (A Rating Guide to Nutrition Websites)

- Obesity Education Initiative (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)

- Overweight and Obesity (CDC)

- U.S. Food and Drug Administration

- Weight-control Information Network (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
)

 

 

 

Last updated: April 22, 2005.
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Guidelines

- New "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" (2005) (Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture)

-
American Gastroenterological Association medical position statement on obesity

- Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (Obesity Education Initiative)

- Management of obesity in children and young people (National Guideline Clearinghouse)

- USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans