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Losing Weight: Start By Counting Calories
DHHS. Food and Drug Administration.
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Setting Goals for Weight Loss
Partnership for Healthy Weight Management.
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¡Cuide Su Peso! Watch Your Weight!  (PDF|413 KB)
DHHS. NIH. NHLBI. Obesity Education Initiative.
Bilingual Spanish and English.
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Healthy Body Calculator
Ask the Dietitian.
Provides results on weight, body frame size, Body Mass Index (BMI), waist to hip ratio, nutrient recommendations and physical activity.
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Healthy Diet Basics: Using a Food Pyramid
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
Also includes "Your healthy weight pyramid: A tool for weight loss" and "A sample menu using the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid."
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How Do You Maintain Weight Loss?
American Heart Association.
Tips and information to help the pounds stay off.
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New American Plate logoNew American Plate
American Institute for Cancer Research.
Not a diet or system for calculating calories, fat grams, or carbs but rather a different way of looking at what to eat every day.
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The 10 Commandments of Weight Loss/10 Bright Ideas for Weight Loss  (PDF|90 KB)
Food and Health Communications, Inc.
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Winning by Losing - A Guide to Effective Weight Control
Calorie Control Council.
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You Can Control Your Weight As You Quit Smoking
DHHS. NIH. NIDDK. Weight-control Information Network.
Addresses issues of weight gain when quitting smoking. Also in PDF|477 KB.
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Last Modified: Feb 27, 2009  
Weight and Obesity
  General Information and Resources
  Treatment and Prevention Guidelines
  Evaluating Weight Control Programs
  Practical, Healthy Weight Control
  Adolescent and Childhood Obesity
  Non-Diet Approaches
MyPyramid Menu Planner
See Also
  Nutrition.gov Weight Management
  Weight-control Information Network (WIN)
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