Healthy Weight
Resource: Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Main Site Link: http://www.cdc.gov Topic Link: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/index.html When it comes to weight loss, there’s no lack of fad diets promising fast results. But such diets limit your nutritional intake, can be unhealthy, and tend to fail in the long run. The key to achieving and maintaining a [...]
Childhood Overweight and Obesity
Obese children and adolescents are at risk for health problems during their youth and as adults. For example, during their youth, obese children and adolescents are more likely to have risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease (such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and Type 2 diabetes) than are other children and adolescents. Resource: Centers [...]
Overweight and Obesity
Keeping with our goal to help and guide users to information they may seek, we strive to shape the Daily Gazet as a comprehensible guide to governmental and public health and information resources available across the maze of the larger internet. Resource: Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Main Site Link: http://www.cdc.gov Topic Link: [...]
Weight Management
Resource: Nutrition.gov Main Site Link: http://www.nutrition.gov Topic Section: http://www.nutrition.gov/weightmanagement Provides the general public, health professionals, the media, and Congress with up-to-date, science-based information on weight control, obesity, physical activity, and related nutritional issues. Topics Covered in this Section: Strategies for Success | Whether you are trying to lose or gain weight, find a wealth of resources [...]
