Healthy Eating and Weight Control
February, 2007
 Here is a list of websites that are helpful in understanding nutrition
and weight control in children and adults.
Aim for a Healthy Weight - National Heart, Blood, Lung Institute - 25% or more of Americans are overweight or obese. If you are overweight or obese, carrying this extra weight puts you at risk for developing many diseases, especially heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Losing this weight helps to prevent and control these diseases. The NHLBI guidelines provide you with a new approach for the measurement of overweight and obesity and a set of steps for safe and effective weight loss.
Do you think you are overweight or just right for you height? - Calculate your body fat using the BMI index at the National Heart, Blood, Lung Institute. You might be surprised at the answer! 
Check your height and weight or that of your child against standard growth charts.
Portion Distortion! Do You Know How Food Portions Have Changed in 20 Years? Check out a fun quiz to test your knowledge about calories in meals and the amount of exercise needed to burn those calories.
www.americanheart.org
click on “Healthy
Lifestyle "
Center for Nutrition
Policy and Promotion, USDA
www.usda.gov/cnpp/
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/bmi-for-age.htm
Center for Science in the Public Interest
http://www.cspinet.org/nutrition/index.html#kids
http://cspinet.org/smartmouth/ a fun game for kids
Children’s Nutrition
Research Center
http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/
Dole
Food Company
http://www.dole5aday.com/Grownups/G_Index.jsp
Kids Health
www.kidshealth.org
Shape
Up America
www.shapeup.org/publications/99.tips.for.family.fitness.fun/index.html
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