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  • Active at Any Size External Web Site Policy

    This booklet addresses the special challenges for very large people who are physically active and provides tips and ideas to become more active and healthier—no matter what your size.

    Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

  • BodyWorks External Web Site Policy

    This program is designed to help parents and caregivers of adolescents ages 9 to 13 improve family eating and activity habits. The program toolkit focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. En español

    Office on Women's Health (OWH)

  • Calorie Connect External Web Site Policy

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    This online wellness service helps you track your food and exercise habits and provides you with personalized food consumption information, exercise data, and analytical charts and tables to help you make positive choices about your physical health and well being.

    Calorie Connect

  • CalorieKing External Web Site Policy

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    This website is a comprehensive guide to weight management that helps you track your diet and change your habits.  In addition to its database of 70,000 foods, CalorieKing offers a food and exercise diary, practical help and tips, step-by-step guidance, interactive goal setting, and motivation and support from the CalorieKing community.  A program for physicians is also available.

    CalorieKing

  • ChooseMyPlate.gov External Web Site Policy

    ChooseMyPlate.gov from the USDA illustrates the five food groups that are the building blocks for a healthy diet and provides tools for diet/calorie tracking and information on weight management, physical activity, and healthy eating. Some materials available in Spanish.

    U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  • EX External Web Site Policy

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    This quit smoking program helps you re-learn your life without cigarettes.  The EX Plan helps you see quitting not as one big war, but as a number of little battles you can actually win.  Includes tools to chart your progress and set your quit smoking date.

    EX

  • Go Meals External Web Site Policy

    This application for the iPhone and iPad provides users with instant access to diabetes nutrition facts for making healthy eating choices.

    Go Meals

  • Lose It! External Web Site Policy

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    Lose It! is a smart phone app that helps you set goals and achieve them through tracking your daily calories, habits, and exercise.

    FitNow, Inc.

  • My Fitness Plan External Web Site Policy

    These three worksheets for young women can help you figure out which types of exercise you'll enjoy most and how to get started, stay motivated, and free up time for fitness.

    Center for Young Women's Health at Children's Hospital Boston

  • MyFoodAdvisor External Web Site Policy

    Registration Required

    This online tracking tool lets you track what you eat to manage your diabetes and prevent the onset of complications.  Explore nearly 5,000 foods and find recipes and healthy alternatives to improve your meals. En español

    American Diabetes Association (ADA)

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