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Weight Management

Good Foods: Teaching Your Kids to Choose

The struggle to develop good eating habits among toddlers, preschoolers and older children seems never-ending. But encouraging children to eat right doesn't require battle, just some common sense. Learn More

Getting Started

Balanced Ways to Attain a Healthful Weight

Exercise for the Seriously Unfit

Get Support to Beat Bad Habits

Why Portion Sizes Are Important

A Workable Guide to Managing Your Weight

Call to Action
Poor diet and inactivity are poised to become the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, warns the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Formerly No. 1: tobacco use. Learn More

Nutrition
Deaths from poor diet and inactivity have risen by 33 percent over the last decade. Sixty-four percent of us are now obese or overweight. Learn More

Exercise
One in five U.S. children is overweight or obese. That's twice as many as 20 years ago, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. Learn More

Behavior
If Mom and Dad are couch potatoes, it can be contagious. It's easier to prevent obesity in childhood than try to correct the problem as an adult. Learn More

Related Health Issues
Being obese or overweight increases the risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, gout and a host of other health problems. Learn More

Healthy Recipes

Cornish Hens with Ginger Plum Stuffing

Each serving contains about 247 calories, 27 grams protein, 8 grams fat (30 percent calories from fat), 117 mg cholesterol, 14 grams carbohydrate, 6 grams fiber, and 321 mg sodium.