Web Resources: Overweight/Obesity UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: Too Many California Adults Are Tipping the Scales at an Unhealthy Weight (2005 report) UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: California Adolescents Increasingly Inactive (2005 report) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. [Rockville, MD]: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General; [2001]. Healthy People 2010 pages on overweight/obesity Clinical Guidelines: Screening and Interventions for Obesity in Adults: Summary of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Annals of Internal Medicine, 139: 933-949, 2003 (follow links for free full text) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living, Obesity and Nutrition Resource Center "Fighting Obesity" -- editorial from British Medical Journal, June 5, 2004 (good ref list as well) Obesity links from the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus
Web Resources: Overweight/Obesity
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: Too Many California Adults Are Tipping the Scales at an Unhealthy Weight (2005 report)
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: California Adolescents Increasingly Inactive (2005 report)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. [Rockville, MD]: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General; [2001].
Healthy People 2010 pages on overweight/obesity
Clinical Guidelines: Screening and Interventions for Obesity in Adults: Summary of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Annals of Internal Medicine, 139: 933-949, 2003 (follow links for free full text)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living, Obesity and Nutrition Resource Center
"Fighting Obesity" -- editorial from British Medical Journal, June 5, 2004 (good ref list as well)
Obesity links from the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus
Overweight/Obesity
Overview
Contribution to overall disease burden in SF
Downstream (health consequences)
Upstream causes
What can be done?
Web resources
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Updated April 19, 2005
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