Open Directory - Health: Weight Loss
See also: This category in other languages: - Details on how to keep to a healthy weight, eat well and reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and other health problems. - Offers tables for men and women, with adjustments for older and younger individuals. Includes explanation of results. - National Institute of Health (NIH) page uses height and weight (English or metric) to determine amount of body fat. - Offers a searchable directory of nutrition facts and printable food labels. Includes a daily calorie requirement tool to determine daily calorie needs. - Lose weight through healthy eating and exercise. Support, diet tips and chat room. - Includes nutritional information on individual food items, with breakdown of calories, carb, fat, and various vitamins and minerals. - A diet portal featuring free diet plans and programmes with a powerful online diet diary. - Weight loss and calorie calculators and information. - This is an on-line audio-visual tool to estimate the calories needed to maintain one's current weight and, if currently overweight, to estimate the number of days it takes to reach the ideal weight by reducing the food intake appropriately. - Provides calculators for activities and foods, as well as diet and weight loss tips, and tutorial. - Provides diet information including low carb diets, diet reviews, and other health information. - Diet tips, information on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, health calculator, find a workout, keyboard yoga and online chats and discussions. - Reviews the general guidelines and the positive and negative aspects of most popular diets. Includes a selection of weight loss tools and a forum. - Written by a doctor and includes sections on cosmetic surgery, diet and nutrition recommended reading. - A simple explanation of how most people get fat and how they can easily become slim again without starving or enduring unpleasant diets. Written by Richard Mackarness, M.B.,B.S. - Resource for weight loss and exercise information, and low fat recipes. - A bibliography containing comments on the published science of body mass index and body fat measurement. - Provides help and support for people to achieve and maintain a healthy, comfortable weight without being deprived of food or losing quality of life. - Food and medical information, and recipes, from a physician and professionally trained chef. - Individualized diets to lower weight, cholesterol, triglyceride, blood pressure, and blood sugar. Tips, books, online nutrient analysis of your diet, plus nutrition counseling with a dietitian. - Includes information on therapies, prevention and healthy living. - Program and workshops by Dr. Terlinsky to reduce weight offer physician assistance, multi-modal approach and individualized treatment. Virginia. - Free food and exercise logging web application that tracks, analyzes, and graphs calories in, calories out, nutrients, weight, body fat, and BMI. Also allows weight goal and nutrition target setting. - Provides weight management resources, tools, and recipes. - Study shows that people's idea of their ideal body weight, depends on their Age and current Weight. - Calorie and BMI calculators. - Explains how to cut calories and reduce fat in a diet. Recommendations on achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, and selection of low-calorie, reduced fat foods and beverages. - Billed as "how to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition," this is a serious weight loss program written from an engineering and management perspective. - Provides a free diet and exercise plan, with an explanation of each phase, and an analysis of common advice. Also includes a comparison of popular diet programs. - Provides information about the Zone diet plan. Includes an introduction, getting started, and the science behind the plan. - Find information about and calculate your Body Mass Index. - To attain and maintain the ideal weight, the healthy way. Offers message boards, chat, exercise, food for the soul, recipes and success stories. - A health information portal with information on surgical weight loss solutions. Includes directory of plastic surgeons and gastric bypass surgeons. - Provides weight loss solutions through education. Offers articles on exercise, diet, fitness, weight loss tips, and metabolism. - Summaries, reviews, and recipes for weight loss programs. Provides information for and feedback from dieters on what works and what doesn't. Includes a support forum. - Expert-reviewed articles offer tips and guidance on effective weight loss planning. Also includes a free question-and-answer service with registered dietitians. - Introductory information on a variety of products. - Information on a psychological affirmation method of weight-loss. Includes book excerpts. - Links to information about diets, emotional eating, fitness, nutrition, cooking and more, as well as weekly feature articles. - Expert-reviewed articles offer tips and guidance on effective weight loss planning. Also includes a free question-and-answer service with registered dietitians. - Offers a holistic approach to weight loss. Includes details of the Momentum program, recipes and food tips, meeting locations and success stories. - Including everything you need to know from exercises, to diet tips, and motivation. - Includes diet plans, pills, and how to talk to your doctor. Features a body mass index and other helpful tools. - Motivation and support for Weight Watchers members. Includes Winning Points recipes, tips, and links. - Offers tips, frequently asked questions, and menus for the Zone Diet. - Dispels the myth that eating later in the day is more likely to cause weight gain. (February 02, 2006) - US Government fact sheet explaining false and misleading claims commonly made in weight loss ads. (November 01, 2004)
