References

¹Kochanek, K.D., et al. Deaths: Final data for 2002. National Vital Statistics Reports. Vol. 53. No. 5. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2004.

²U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 6th ed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 2005. More information available at www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines; accessed October 31, 2006.

³Nestle, M., and Jacobson, M.F. Halting the obesity epidemic: A public health policy approach. Public Health Report 115(1):12–24, 2000.

⁴HHS. The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. Rockville, MD: HHS, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, 2001.

⁵More information available at www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm; accessed October 31, 2006.

⁶Nord, M., et al. Household Food Security in the United States, 2003. Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. 42. Washington, DC: USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS), 2004.

⁷"Healthy weight" for adults is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) equal to or greater than 18.5 and less than 25.0, and "obese" is defined as a BMI of 30.0 or more. For adolescents, "overweight" or "obese" is defined as at or above the gender- and age-specific 95th percentile of BMI according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's growth charts for the United States.

⁸More information available at www.healthypeople.gov/data/2010prog/focus19/; accessed October 31, 2006.

⁹More information available at www.healthierus.gov; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹⁰More information available at www.usda.gov/cnpp/5ADAY/MOU.pdf; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹¹More information available at www.fns.usda.gov/wic/; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹²Guthrie, J. Understanding Fruit and Vegetable Choices—Research Briefs. Agriculture Information Bulletin No. AIB792. Washington, DC: USDA, ERS, November 2004. More information available at www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib792/; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹³Buzby, J., et al. Will 2005 be the year of the whole grain? Amber Waves. Washington, DC: USDA, ERS, June 2005. More information available at www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June05/; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹⁴More information available at www.cdc.gov/5aday and www.5aday.gov; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹⁵More information available at www.mypyramid.gov; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹⁶HHS. Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure With DASH. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). NIH Publication No. 06–4082. Bethesda, MD: NIH, NHLBI, 2003. More information available at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹⁷More information available at www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/lab-gen.html; accessed October 31, 2006.

¹⁸Institute of Medicine. Preventing Childhood Obesity. Health in the Balance. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2005.

¹⁹More information available at www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/CSHP; accessed October 31, 2006.

²⁰More information available at www.fns.usda.gov/tn; accessed October 31, 2006.

²¹More information available at www.hsph.harvard.edu/prc/projects.html; accessed October 31, 2006.

²²More information available at www.science.education.nih.gov/customers.nsf/MSEnergy?OpenForm; accessed October 31, 2006.

²³More information available at http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/mission/partner/t_ideas.htm; accessed October 31, 2006.

²⁴More information available at www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/power_of_choice.html; accessed October 31, 2006.

²⁵More information available at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/; accessed October 31, 2006.

²⁶Jandacek, R.J., and Woods, S.C. Pharmaceutical approaches to the treatment of obesity. Drug Discovery Today 9(20):874–880, 2004.

²⁷Santry, H.P., et al. Trends in bariatric surgical procedures. Journal of the American Medical Association 294(15):1909–1917, 2005.

Note: Documents in PDF format require the Adobe Acrobat Reader®. If you experience problems with PDF documents, please download the latest version of the Reader®.

<<  Previous—Objectives and Subobjectives   |   Table of Contents  |  Next—Related Objectives From Other Focus Areas  >>