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Books
Carter J, Wiecha J, Peterson K, Nobrega S, and Gortmaker SL. Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity, Second Edition. Champaign: Human Kinetics. 2007.
Cheung LW, Dart H, Kalin S, and Gortmaker SL. Eat Well & Keep Moving: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Upper Elementary School Nutrition and Physical Activity, Second Edition. Champaign: Human Kinetics. 2007.
Hanh TN, Cheung L. .San Francisco: HarperCollins. 2010.
Hankinson SE, Colditz GA, Manson JE, and Speizer FE. Healthy Women, Healthy Lives: A Guide to Preventing Disease from the Landmark Nurses’ Health Study. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2001.
Hu FB. Obesity Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. Oxford University Press. 2008.
Katzen, M. and Willett, WC. Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less: A Flexible and Delicious Way to Shrink Your Waist Without Going Hungry. New York: Hyperion. 2006.
Roberts SB, Heyman MB, and Tracy L. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six. Bantam Doubleday Dell. 1999.
Willett, WC. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating. New York: Free Press. 2005.
Web Sites
The Obesity Prevention Source, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity
Your Disease Risk, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine
Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Nutrition Policy Page, Center for Science in the Public Interest
International Obesity Task Force
Related Programs
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)
NECON Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Overweight and Obesity in New England (PDF document)
Nurses’ Health Study, Nurses’ Health Study II
Health Professionals Follow up Study
Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center
Semi-Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaires File Download Site (Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition)
Tanzania Food Composition Tables (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre, and the Harvard School of Public Health)
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