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 ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø.

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Weight loss and 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.


Information on improving your well-being and reaching or maintaining a healthy weight. Strategies include changes in daily eating and physical activity habits.

Nutrition


Practical information and tips to help Americans build healthier diets. Use the Start Simple with to pick daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn badges along the way.


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.


Different types of fats and which ones to love, limit, and lose.


Quiz on how food portions have changed in 20 years.


An array of tools for dietary assessment and planning, checking personal health risks, testing knowledge, and evaluating needs.


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


What and how much to eat within your calorie allowance. The plan is personalized for your age, gender, height, weight, and physical activity level.