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Weight Loss/Dieting
OD
Office of the Director
- Counting Carbs? Understanding Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load
- Digging a Vegetarian Diet: Plant-Based Eating Can Reap Rewards
- Healthy Gifts for the Holidays: Low-Cost Ideas to Inspire Healthy Living
- Healthy Holiday Gift Ideas: Get Creative, Stay Healthy
- Heft for the Holidays: How to Hold Off Those Extra Pounds
- How You See Yourself: When Your Body Image Doesn’t Measure Up
- Making Your Resolutions Stick: How to Create Healthy Habits
- Mindfulness Matters: Can Living in the Moment Improve Your Health?
- NIH and the Weight of the Nation
- Rough Up Your Diet: Fit More Fiber Into Your Day
- Shape Your Surroundings: Make It Easier to Control Your Weight
- Talking to Your Doctor
- Thyroid Diseases: What You Need to Know
- Watch Your Cholesterol: Why You Should Keep Your Blood Level in Check
- Weighing in on Dietary Fats: Some Fats Are Healthier Than Others
- Weighty Issues for Kids: Taking Aim at Childhood Obesity
- What is Healthy Eating? How to Follow All that Advice You Hear
- When Eating Goes to Extremes: The Excesses of Eating Disorders
- Winning at losing: How to Keep that Weight Off
NIDDK
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Changing Your Habits: Steps to Better Health [ PDF Version ]
- Choosing a Safe and Successful Weight-Loss Program [ PDF Version ]
- Cómo Alimentarse y Mantenerse Activo Durante Toda La Vida (Adultos) Spanish
- Dieting and Gallstones [ PDF Version ]
- Do You Know the Health Risks of Being Overweight? [ PDF Version ]
- Getting on Track: Physical Activity and Healthy Eating for Men [ PDF Version ]
- Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Across Your Lifespan - Better Health and You: Tips for Adults [ PDF Version ]
- Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Across Your Lifespan - Fit for Two: Tips for Pregnancy [ PDF Version ]
- Improving Your Health: Tips for African American Men and Women [ PDF Version ]
- Just Enough for You--About Food Portions [ PDF Version ]
- Obesity, Physical Activity, and Weight-control Glossary
- Physical Activity and Weight Control [ PDF Version ]
- Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity
- Tips to Help You Get Active
- Very Low-Calorie Diets
- Weight and Waist Measurement: Tools for Adults
- Weight Cycling
- Weight Loss & Control Organizations Resource List
- Weight Loss and Control
- Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths: How Much Do You Really Know?
- Weight Loss for Life
- Weight-control Information Network
- You Can Control Your Weight as You Quit Smoking
NHLBI
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Aim for a Healthy Weight
- Body Mass Index Table
- Calculate Your Body Mass Index
- Eating Healthy Starts With Healthy Food Shopping
- Eating Healthy With Ethnic Food
- Interactive Menu Planner
- On the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans
- Portion Distortion: Do You Know How Food Portions Have Changed in 20 Years?
- Spice Up Your Life! Eat Less Salt and Sodium
- Update: Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adult
- Watch Your Weight Spanish / English
- We Can! Ways to Enhance Children's Activities & Nutrition
Call (301) 496-4236 for more information
NCCAM
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Call (888) 644-6226 or 301-519-3153 for more information
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Clinical Trials Information
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
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