Resources and Links
Obesity prevention-related recommendations, reports, and other resources from national and international government agencies, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
Quick links on this page: Obesity Background | Research Centers | Prevention Programs and Campaigns | Prevention Reports and Recommendations | Journals and Books | Professional Associations
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Overweight and Obesity
U.S. Department of Agriculture — Weight and Obesity
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — Healthy People 2020: Nutrition and Weight Status
European Commission — Nutrition and Physical Activity – Policy
World Health Organization (WHO) — Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
WHO European Database on Nutrition, Obesity and Physical Activity (NOPA) — About NOPA
Children’s Hospital Boston — New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center
Deakin University, Australia — WHO Collaborating Center for Obesity Prevention
Harvard School of Public Health
- Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center
- Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network
- Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention
- Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity
International Association for the Study of Obesity — International Obesity Task Force
Louisiana State University — Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — Active Living Research | Healthy Eating Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yale University — Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Alliance for a Healthier Generation — Healthy Schools Program
Harvard School of Public Health
Institute of Medicine and HBO Documentary Films — The Weight of the Nation
Let’s Move — Main Website
National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ)
Partnership for a Healthier America — Main Website
The Campaign to End Obesity — Main Website
Today I Will (The Cooper Institute) — Main Website
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States (2009)
- The Community Guide — Obesity Prevention and Control
- The Community Guide — Promoting Physical Activity
Institute of Medicine
Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention (2012)- Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies (2011)
- Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity (2009)
- Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way toward Healthier Youth (2007)
- Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance (2004)
Other U.S. Government
- The Surgeon General’s Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation (2010)
- White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President (2010)
- White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity One Year Progress Report (2011)
The Campaign to End Obesity — Assessing the Economics of Obesity and Obesity Interventions (2012)
Trust for America’s Health
- F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011
- F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010
European Commission — Strategy on Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity-related Health Issues
World Health Organization (WHO) — Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
International Journal of Obesity
Hu, FB. Obesity Epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Gillman, MW. Maternal Obesity. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society
European Association for the Study of Obesity
International Association for the Study of Obesity
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