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Information on current rates of overweight and obesity is available from the following sites:

http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/Document/HTML/Volume2/19Nutrition.htm Healthy People 2010: Nutrition and Overweight

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity.htm CDC Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity

The http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/ob_home.htm National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults provides information on rates on overweight and obesity among many different groups of Americans and how the statistics have changed over the past four decades. It also provides background information on the current BMI standards for defining overweight and obesity. The http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System looks at health risk behaviors among adults, including dieting, exercise, and diabetes prevalence.

The CDC has information on http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts growth charts for those age 0-18 years; these are used to assess weight in infants, children, and adolescents. The http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System looks at a variety of health risk behaviors among young people, including nutrition and physical activity.

Background on the current American diet and information on reasons for the current diet, exercise, and weight trends are available at the following sites:

http://www.usda.gov/cnpp USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

http://www.barc.usda.gov/bhnrc/foodsurvey/home.htm USDA Food Surveys Research Group

http://www.usda.gov/events/nns.html USDA Links for the National Nutrition Summit

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/dnpaaag.htm CDC Nutrition and Physical Activity

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/nutguide.htm CDC Lifelong Healthy Eating Program