Fat and Calories
... What''s the difference between fat and calories? Fat is one of six nutrients your body needs to stay healthy. The other five nutrients are: Carbohydrates (found in fruits, vegetables, pasta, rice, gra...

Choosing a Safe and Successful Weight-Loss Program
... Almost any of the commercial weight-loss programs can work, but only if they motivate you sufficiently to decrease the amount of calories you eat or increase the amount of calories you burn each day (...

The Very Best Way to Lose Weight and Keep It Off! 
... Introduction A positive attitude is very important for successful weight loss and weight management. To lose weight permanently, you must make a commitment to gradually adopt a healthier way of life.&...

Family Shapedown to Shape Up
... A new program tackling childhood obesity focuses on improving the health of the entire family for success. The Herwerden family of Middleburg Heights didn’t think their eating habits were that bad -- ...

Emotional Weight: How to Cope
... Introduction Excessive weight gain is often a symptom of an underlying emotional dysfunction. Depression, boredom, loneliness, chronic anger, anxiety, frustration, stress, unsatisfactory interpersonal...

Weight Loss Resources
... American Dietetic Association 216 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL 60606-6995 (800) 366-1655 http://www.eatright.org American Obesity Association 1250 24th Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20037 ...

Obesity
... What is obesity? Obesity is defined as an excess proportion of total body fat. Nearly 40 million adults in the United States can be defined as obese. There are several indexes used to assess obesity. ...

Understanding Adult Obesity
... More than 60 percent of Americans aged 20 years and older are overweight. One-quarter of American adults are also obese, putting them at increased health risk for chronic diseases such as heart diseas...

Fighting Back Against Obesity
... Sixty-five percent of Americans are now overweight or obese. Obesity is increasing in every age, ethnicity and in both genders. It now accounts for 123 billion dollars in health care costs annually. O...

Obesity: A Treatable Epidemic
... The number of calories eater per day to stay at the same weight is equal to 10x your weight in pounds. 1 pound = 3,500 calories - 1 pound (muscle) = 363 calories If you decrease your intake by 500 to...

Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity
... To understand the significance of statistics related to overweight and obesity, it is important to know how overweight and obesity are defined and measured. This fact sheet discusses these terms and t...

Curbing Childhood Obesity
... There’s no getting around it. An increasing number of kids are developing the physiques of sumo wrestlers. But this is not the result of a national campaign to groom athletes who can compete with Japa...

Obesity in Children
... One out of every five children in the United States is overweight, and this number is continuing to grow. Children have fewer weight-related health and medical problems than adults, however, overweigh...

Overview
... Do you weigh more than you should? If so, you''re like the two-thirds of American adults who are overweight. About one in three American adults is considered to be obese. And childhood obesity is at a...

NIH Releases Research Strategy to Fight Obesity Epidemic
... NIH Director Elias M. Zerhouni, M.D., today announced the release of the final version of the Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research, a multi-dimensional research agenda to enhance both the developme...

U.S. Teens More Overweight Than Youth in 14 Other Countries
... U.S. teens are more likely to be overweight than are teens from 14 other industrialized nations, according to survey information collected in 1997 and 1998 by two agencies of the Department of Health ...

Preguntas Frecuentes acerca de los Problemas Médicos de las Mujeres Estadounidenses de Origen Hispano
... Hay cerca de 14 millones de mujeres de origen hispano en los Estados Unidos. Entre ellas hay mujeres de culturas, antecedentes y experiencias diversas - mexicano-americanas, centroamericanas y sudamer...

Preguntas frecuentes acerca de la Obesidad
... La obesidad significa que usted tiene una cantidad excesiva de grasa corporal. Todas las personas necesitan un poco de grasa corporal, pero tener demasiada puede ocasionar problemas de salud. El sobre...