At a glance
Do you want to learn more about weight loss and management, nutrition, and meal planning and tracking? Try these links for tips and information from groups outside of CDC.
Weight loss and management
Weight Management
Information about a range of weight management topics. Examples include staying active at any size, binge eating disorder, a guide for teens, food portions, and bariatric surgery for severe obesity.
Some Myths About Nutrition and Physical Activity
Information on improving your well-being and reaching or maintaining a healthy weight. Strategies include changes in daily eating and physical activity habits.
Nutrition
MyPlate
Practical information and tips to help Americans build healthier diets. Use the Start Simple with MyPlate mobile app to pick daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn badges along the way.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020–2025
Ways to improve overall eating patterns, including foods and drinks. This edition provides four overarching guidelines that encourage healthy eating patterns at each stage of life.
The Facts on Fats Infographic
Different types of fats and which ones to love, limit, and lose.
Portion Distortion
Quiz on how food portions have changed in 20 years.
Nutrition Tools and Curricula
An array of tools for dietary assessment and planning, checking personal health risks, testing knowledge, and evaluating needs.
Diet and Health Conditions
Tips to keep a variety of health conditions under control through healthy eating and healthy living. Topics include heart health, high blood pressure, diabetes, overweight and obesity, digestive disorders, eating disorders, food allergies and intolerances, cancer, HIV/AIDS, kidney disease, and osteoporosis.
Meal planning and tracking tool
MyPlate Plan
What and how much to eat within your calorie allowance. The plan is personalized for your age, gender, height, weight, and physical activity level.