Partnership for Healthy Weight Management (broad-based coalition)
Weight-control Information Network (National Institutes of Health)

Partnership for Healthy Weight Management

• Source: Coalition of professional organizations (e.g., American Dietetic Association), government agencies (e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute), corporations (e.g., Weight Watchers International, Knoll Pharmaceutical Company), health-care institutions (e.g., University of Colorado's Center for Human Nutrition), and university departments (e.g., University of Alabama's Department of Nutritional Sciences), and individuals (e.g., Judith Stern, Dr.Sc., Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis).

• Strengths:

  1. Represents a broad spectrum of groups.

  2. Provides many solid, straightforward principles about weight management.

• Address: http://www.consumer.gov/weightloss

Weight-control Information Network (WIN)

• Source: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health

• Strengths:

  1. Provides health professionals and consumers with science-based information on obesity, weight control, and nutrition. Information is interesting and clear and includes some hard-to-find material.

  2. Provides on-line access to a wide range of publications (including fact sheets, brochures, and article reprints) and other material, including conference and workshop proceedings, abstracts, references to articles, and information on books and educational resources.

  3. "WIN Notes" features a quarterly newsletter for health professionals and lists resources available from other organizations.

• Note: Focuses entirely on weight loss. For people interested in weight loss, it provides solid guidance.

• Address: http://http://win.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm

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