Healthy weight resources

Learn more about healthy weight loss from the Office on Women’s Health

General information about healthy weight on other websites

Losing Weight — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS
ChooseMyPlate.gov
A to Z Health and Human Development Topics: Obesity and Overweight — Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH, HHS
Weight and Obesity — U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Information Center
Overweight and Obesity — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, HHS
Weight-control Information Network — National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH, HHS

The Office on Women's Health is grateful for the medical review by:

Kathryn McMurry, M.S., Nutrition Coordinator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Fatima Cody-Stanford, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., Obesity Medicine & Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Harvard Medical School

All material contained on these pages are free of copyright restrictions and maybe copied, reproduced, or duplicated without permission of the Office on Women’s Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Citation of the source is appreciated.

Page last updated: February 17, 2021