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| Table 9.1 The Prevalence of Healthy Weight Among Adults | ||
| National Center for Health Statistics: The Health People 2010 Database | ||
( http://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/obj.htm ) | ||
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| Healthy People 2010: Nutrition and Overweight | ||
( http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/Document/HTML/Volume2/19Nutrition.htm ) | ||
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| National Center for Health Statistics | ||
( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm ) | ||
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| CDC Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity | ||
( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/surveill.htm ) | ||
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| National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | ||
| Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults. Provides information on rates of 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. ( http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/ob_home.htm ) | ||
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| CDC information on growth charts for those age 0-18 years | ||
| Used to assess weight in infants, children, and adolescents. ( http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts ) | ||
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| The World Health Organization Global Database on Obesity and Body Mass Index in Adults | ||
| Information on international trends in obesity and underweight. ( http://www.who.int/bmi/index.jsp ) | ||
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