Obesity/Weight Management

Calculate My Body Mass Index
Audience: Consumers
Description: This website calculates your body mass index, simply insert your weight in pounds and select your height. Click on the Compute button to see your body mass index.
Contact: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Obesity Education Initiative website
Cost: none

The Center for Weight and Health
Audience: Consumers
Description: In order to facilitate collaborative work, the Center for Weight and Health has developed a searchable on-line database of professionals whose work is relevant to weight-related health issues, food security and food systems. The database is now live and can be accessed on the Center's website (below).
Contact: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/cwh
Cost: none

Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults Slide Show
Audience: Professionals:
Description: The Clinical Guidelines Evidence Report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute has been made into a slide show. This slide show consists of six sections: Clinical Guidelines Core Set, Evidence-Based Methodology, Background Data, Practical Tips, Special Considerations, and Future Research. Presenters will be able to focus their presentation accordingly. NHLBI is pleased to be able to offer this slide set for public use. The slides can be downloaded for use in computer slide shows, conventional slide presentations, or for online viewing via the website.
Contact: Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website
Cost: Complimentary

Guide to Healthy Restaurant Eating, 2nd Edition (2002). For consumers, this guide provides nutrition information for more than 3,500 menu items from more than 55 major restaurant chains. Nutrition Counseling Education Services (NCES). (877) 623-7266.

Handbook Of Obesity Treatment (2002). For professionals, this handbook guides the user through the entire process of planning and delivering clinical services. Special topics: improving self-esteem and body image, treatment of childhood obesity, service provision in the primary care setting, need for preventive interventions and policy initiatives. Nutrition Counseling Education Services (NCES). (877) 623-7266.

Nutrition Problems of the Elderly
Audience: Consumers and Professionals
Description: This video reviews malnourishment, including obesity and PCM; chewing problems; alcoholism; drug-food interactions; constipation; iron; dehydration; eating alone vs. lonely eating. All-In-One Videotape & Instruction Resource Package: Videotape, Learning Objectives, Learning Activities, Before-After Knowledge Quiz, and Laser-sharp, copier ready handout master. Videotape length: 14 minutes. Item #246
Contact: National Health Video
11312 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 5
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: 800-543-6803
Cost: Package: $89.00

The Practical Guide to the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and
Obesity in Adults (2001)
Audience: Professionals
Description: This guide was developed cooperatively by the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). It is based on the Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Evidence Report developed by the NHLBI Expert Panel and released in June 1998. The Expert Panel used an evidence-based methodology to develop key recommendations for assessing and treating overweight and obese patients. The goal of the Practical Guide is to provide the tools you need to effectively manage your overweight and obese adult patients. 78 pages.
Cost: Single copy $5.50 (bulk rate available)
*Aim for a Healthy Weight
Audience: Consumers (patients) and Professionals
Description: This is a section of the NHLBI's website
*Patient pages include: Body Mass Index calculator, Online personalized menu planner, Downloadable tips on controlling your weight including shopping ideas, recipes, tips for eating out, and a guide to physical activity.
*Professional pages include: "The Clinical Guidelines Evidence Report, The Executive Summary of the Guidelines, and the Practical Guide", Palm OS Tools: Succinct and practical point-of-care references for download and use on Palm OS devices, Slide Show: Based on the Evidence Report. The slide show can be used for professional presentations.
Contact: NHLBI Health Information Center
PO Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone: 3-1-592-8573
Fax: 301-592-8563
Cost: Materials may be downloaded from the website free of charge

Simple Strategies Series
Audience: Professionals
Description: These booklets are designed to provide sensible, effective advice to help people eat well and manage their weight for better health. Created by registered dietitians, the Simple Strategies series feature proven and practical solutions to the most common weight-loss obstacles.
Contact: Park Nicollet HealthSource
3800 Park Nicollet Boulevard
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Phone: 1-800-372-7776
Web site: http://www.healthsource.org/
Cost: $3.50 (1-9), $3.15 (10-99), $2.80 (100-499), $2.45 (500+)
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Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity
Audience: This fact sheet discusses these terms and their
measures, and explains why statistics may differ when obtained from
diverse sources. It then presents statistics related to overweight and
obesity in the United States.
Contact: Weight Information Network
Cost: none

Tool Kit "Fat Replacers: New Choices for Managing Dietary Fat" (2001)
Audience: Professionals
Description: The tool kit is a versatile resource designed to help nutrition educators talk with both health professional and consumer audiences about the options available for managing dietary fat. The kit, developed in partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration, provides two sets of materials, one for professional audiences and the other for consumer audiences, including presentation scripts, overhead/slide masters, a reference sheet, glossary of fat reduction ingredients, and other resource materials.
Contact: International Food Information Council (IFIC)
1100 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 430
Washington DC 20036
Phone: 202-296-6540
Fax: 202-296-6547
Cost: Complimentary

Volumetrics: Feel Full on Fewer Calories. B. Rolls, Ph.D., R. Barnett (2000)
Audience: Professionals and Consumers
Description: The book is divided into 7 sections; evidence supporting Volumetrics weight management and the concept of energy/density; step-by-step instructions to calculate BMI and calorie needs and a subsection entitled "Seven Keys to Weight Management Success"; a general overview of carbohydrates, fat, proteins, alcohol, water and soup and how each of these fit into the Volumetrics plan; resource guides and meal plans for each reader. ISBN: 0-06-019483-9
Contact: Harper Collins Publishers
Cost: Varies by bookstore

Weight Loss: Finding a Weight Loss Program that Works for You
Audience: Consumers
Description: The Federal Trade Commission spearheaded "The Partnership for Healthy Weight Management" with the International Food Information Council (IFIC) in 1998 to promote reliable methods for healthy weight management. This publication is available in PDF.
Contact: The Federal Trade Commission or IFIC at above link
Cost: Complimentary

The Weight Realities Movement - Fitness and Fatness
Audience: Professionals
Description: This new weight paradigm advocates health and quality of life rather than slenderness at any cost.
Contact: Society for Nutrition Education
9202 N. Meridian, Suite 200
Indianapolis, IN 46260
Phone: 800-235-6690; Fax 317-571-5603
Cost: none

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Web Links

Weight-control Information Network (NIH) <www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/win.htm>

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