Body Image and Eating Disorders
American Dietetic Association: Provides a wide range of materials relating to healthy eating habits; the site includes fact sheets covering a variety of weight management topics, including healthy strategies for gaining or losing weight. Detailed, scientific ADA position papers on fat replacers, eating disorders, weight management, and other issues are also available.
American Obesity Association (AOA): An source of information and advocacy relating to a variety of obesity issues.
Ask the Dietitian: Overweight : Provides questions and answers on many topics related to weight control; is also linked to the Healthy Body Calculator™, which calculates BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, and daily nutrient and calorie goals.
Biofitness Body Fat Testing Center: A commercial site that provides an online assessment of percent body fat based on activity level and anthropometric measurements.
Calorie Control Council: Sponsored by the manufacturers of reduced fat and reduced calorie foods, this site includes information about low calorie sweeteners and fat replacers as well as weight loss tips. The Enhanced Calorie Calculator can help determine the calories, fat, and percentage of calories from fat in daily food intake.
CyberDiet: Provides resources to help you determine an appropriate energy balance and tools to help you plan meals for successful weight management.
Frontline: Fat: Information from a PBS Frontline special that looked at how society, genetics, and biology have influenced our relationship with food and at current problems with obesity and eating disorders.
Go Ask Alice: Sponsored by Columbia University Health Service, provides answers to a wide variety of student questions, including many about weight management, diet, and exercise.
Learn Education Center: Weight Management Self-Assessments: Includes assessments for binge eating, body mass index, daily calorie needs, and weight loss readiness.
Light Living: Focuses on ways to cut fat and calories in your cooking and features recipes, cooking tips, a recipe conversion function, questions and answers, and a kid’s corner.
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA): An advocacy groups dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people; provides information brochures about a variety of topics.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Provides information about the latest federal guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of overweight and obesity.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Lose Weight: Includes an online body mass index calculator, tips on getting started on a weight loss program, recipes, food shopping advice, and a food and physical activity diary.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Health Information: Nutrition and Obesity: Provides online publications about obesity, weight management, nutritional disorders, and prescription weight loss medications; the NIDDK’s Weight Control Information Network (WIN) provides additional resources, including links and a list of university-based weight control programs.
North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO): Provides information and links about current research in obesity.
Shape Up America!: Founded by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Shape Up America! provides materials about safe dietary and physical fitness strategies for successful weight management; Web site includes an online BMI calculator and a physical activity IQ quiz.
Thrive Online: Weight Control: Information and tools for weight management, including a BMI calculator, a weight loss readiness quiz, and suggestions for diet and exercise.
Body Image and Eating Disorders
The following sites provide information and resources on body image issues and eating disorders.
American Anorexia/Bulimia Association
Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention (EDAP)
Eating Disorders Shared Awareness (EDSA)
Monash University: Online body image assessment
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD)
National Eating Disorder Information Centre (Canada)
Weight Loss Drugs and Programs
Fat City: Diet and Weight Loss Fraud: A commercial site with news, information, and tips about weight loss fraud.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Provides information on pharmacological and surgical treatments for obesity.
Obesity Meds and Research News: Selections from a newsletter that focuses on currently available medications for obesity as well as drugs under development.
Partnership for Healthy Weight Management: Provides guidelines for commercial weight loss programs and tips for consumers for beginning a weight loss program and evaluating commercial programs.
U.S. Consumer Gateway: Health—Dieting and Weight Control: Links to sites with advice on evaluating claims about weight loss products and programs.
U. S. Food and Drug Administration: A searchable site that provides information on drugs used to treat obesity; a special page with safety update information on fenfluramine, phentermine, and dexfenfluramine is also available.
The following sites provide information on the causes, health effects, prevention, and management of diabetes.
American Diabetes Association: (This site also includes an online diabetes risk assessment.)
CDC Diabetes and Public Health Resource
Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation
Diabetes Mall: Diabetes Information
National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Diabetes Information
Rick Mendosa's Diabetes Directory
See also the links for Chapters 1 (general wellness), 12 (nutrition), and 13 (exercise).
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