The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity

• Press Release [HTML] [PDF]

• Report [HTML] [PDF]

• Ordering Information

• Fact Sheets

• Overweight and Obesity: A Vision for the Future [PDF]

• Overweight and Obesity: At a Glance [PDF]

• Overweight and Obesity: Health Consequences [PDF]

• Surgeon General's Healthy Weight Advice for Consumers [PDF]

• Overweight and Obesity: What You Can Do [PDF]

• Overweight in Children and Adolescents [PDF]
   

• Surgeon General's Listening Session (December 7-8, 2000)

  • Press Release (January 8, 2001)

  • Background
     

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Resources

• Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans
   

• Healthy People 2010:  

  • Leading Health Indicators (LHI)

  • LHI Resources for Individual Action

    • Obesity Education Initiative, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center 

    • The Weight-Control Information Network, 
      National Institutes of Health (NIH) 

  • Chapter 19:  Nutrition and Overweight

  • Chapter 22:  Physical Activity and Fitness
      

• Overweight and Obesity Information, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   

• Search healthfinder® for information on:

  • Healthy Lifestyle

  • Nutrition

  • Obesity

  • Physical Activity

  • Weight Control

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Last revised: January 11, 2007