Aim For A Healthy Weight
This site, which is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, has a guideline for analyzing diet programs and a health assessment that includes BMI, waist circumference and other risk factors. Select a popular diet program and analyze it according the NHLIB guidelines. Discuss your findings in a one-page paper.
Visit the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute web site
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Fad Diets
This site has general information about questionable advertising for weight loss products or services. Use the information to prepare a one-page article that will help dieters identify such ads.
Visit the Federal Trade Commission web site
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Energy Calculator
The site below is sponsored by the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois. Use the energy calculator to estimate the amount of energy that you expend in a day. Keep records of your energy expenditures for three days.
Visit the NAT Tools for Good Health web site
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