Patient-Centered Resources
- Harvard Medicine Research:Obesity
- Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity — Home - Yale University
- Obesity:MedlinePlus
- NHLBI,Obesity Guidelines-Home Page - National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
- Obesity and Overweight:Topics | DNPAO | CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity
- WIN –Publication –Understanding Adult Obesity - Weight-control Information Network / NIDDK
- NEJM:Articles on obesity —body-mass index,ghrelin,and physical activity - New England Journal of Medicine
- ACP:Obesity - American College of Physicians
- OBESITEXT,in Endotext.org,Top Source on OBESITY and all of Clinical Endocrinology,authoritative,comprehensive,up-to-date,downloadable,and free,covering Energy regulation,environment and obesity,genetics of obesity,dyslipidemia,endocrine function,obesity and quality of life,obesity in children,diabetes,dietary treatment,bariatric surgery,obesity prevention,exercise,behavioral therapy
- Obesity:eMedicine Endocrinology
- Obesity and Weight Management –Causes,Diagnosis,Treatment,Guidelines,and Prevention - Medscape
- Weight and Obesity:Food and Nutrition Information Center - National Agricultural Library / USDA
- Scientific American:Obesity
- Obesity:Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome:Merck Manual Home Edition
- Calculate your BMI –Standard BMI Calculator
- Aim for a Healthy Weight –Obesity Education Initiative,NHLBI - National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
- AAP CHILDREN’S HEALTH TOPICS:OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY - American Academy of Pediatrics
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
- When Being Overweight Is a Health Problem - Kids Health
- http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;112/2/424.pdf - Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity –Position StatementAmerican Academy of Pediatrics
- The Obesity Society
