External Resources

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.
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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

Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Ways to improve overall eating patterns, including foods and drinks. This edition provides overarching guidelines that encourage healthy eating patterns at each stage of life.

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 tools

My Food and Beverage Diary
Record your meals and beverages using this tracker.

Daily Servings by Calorie Level
Explore what and how much to eat within your daily calorie allowance.

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) Calculator
Use the calculator to help determine calories needed according to your height, weight, age, and physical activity level.