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Taking off as little as 10 pounds can lower your blood pressure, improve your blood-sugar control, and reduce your blood fats, as well as spare you from sleep apnea, varicose veins, and osteoarthritis. What's the best way to trim extra pounds?

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What's a healthy weight for one person may be too much for another, because your bone structure and the amount you exercise both count. Still, here are some overall ways to find out how fit you are.

BMI calculator
Ideal weight calculator
Can you be fit and fat?
Special Report: What's wrong with the American diet?


Exercise, nutrition, and portion control go a long way toward helping you control your weight -- as can sorting out emotional issues around eating. Here are some ways to jumpstart your weight control plan.

Eight simple steps to weight loss
Walking to lose weight
Eating and emotional issues: "The Solution"
Eating well alla Italiana
Fast food pitfalls
Calorie burn calculator
Calorie needs calculator
How I finally lost weight
Downsize this! The fun of smaller portions
Easy ways to trim fat off your meals


Five million Americans have eating disorders, and millions more pour their money into pills, drinks, and devices that promise to help them drop pounds overnight. Most of these products are a waste of money, and some are dangerous. Check out our special reports:

The dangers of ephedra
Diet pills: Herbal industry cover-up
First Person: Addicted to exercise
Abdominal machines: Do they work?
Why do so many of us have poor body images?
Eating Disorders
Anorexia
Bulimia
Binge eating
Book Review: The Adonis Complex


Kids struggle with their weight too, risking Type 2 diabetes if they're overweight and eating disorders if they're obsessed with losing weight. Here are some tools to help keep your child's weight in balance.

Getting kids moving
Skinny kids
Overweight kids
Teens: Obesity and the Type 2 diabetes epidemic
Book Review: Fast Food Nation
Quick and healthy lunches

Instant Poll 

Q: Do You Read Nutrition Labels?
    Yes, to eat a healthy or balanced diet
    Yes, it helps me stay on my weight loss program
    Yes, I need to watch out for certain ingredients
    No, not really

See past polls

Cool Tools
Healthy Eating Guide
Healthy Shopping Guide
Test Your Serving-Size Smarts
How Many Calories Are You Drinking?
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Sugar?
Daily Food Diary
Weight Loss Plan
Fitness Diary
Body Fat Calculator
Daily Nutrition Calculator (Macronutrients)
Quiz: Can You Recognize the Hidden Fats?
Fast Food Fact Finder
Quiz: How's Your Kid's Diet?
Waist-to-Hip Ratio Calculator
Quiz: Do You Know How to Lose Weight?
Calorie Need Calculator
Quiz: Do You Know Your Mexican Food?
Daily Calorie Use Calculator
Ideal Weight Calculator
Body Mass Index Calculator
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Weight Control A-Z
Abdominal Machines: Do They Work?
Ask The Expert: Overweight Teen
Ask The Expert: Weight Loss
Ask the Expert: Sedentary Job and Weight Loss
Audio: Kids and Obesity
Book Review: Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
Book Review: Fast Food Nation
Book Review: Generation Extra Large
Book Review: Healthy Jewish Cooking
Book Review: Light Ethnic Cooking
Book Review: The Adonis Complex
Children and Exercise
Diet Fads
Diet and Menopause
Downsize This! The Fun of Smaller Portions
Eating Healthy alla Italiana
Eight Keys to Losing Weight
Fast Food Pitfalls
First Person: Dysfunctional High School Days
First Person: Farewell to the Sugar Shack
First Person: Heart Attack Diary -- Part IV, 20 Years Later
First Person: Love Those Chips!
First Person: Why No One Walks
Fit and Fat
Guidelines on Childhood Obesity
Heart Disease and Weight
How I Finally Lost Weight
Ideal Weight Calculator
Interview: Andrea Dunn and Project Active
Low-Fat Meals
Multimedia: Fitness for Toddlers
Multimedia: The Edible Schoolyard
Q & A: My Teen's Weight
Q&A: Appetite Suppressants
Q&A: Atkins Diet and Brain Fog
Q&A: Losing Weight
Q&A: Pre-Teens and Exercise
Q&A: The Body Type Diet
Q&A: Too Much Water?
Special Report: "The Solution" to Weight Loss
Special Report: "The Solution" to Weight Loss, Part II
Special Report: Craving Sugar
Special Report: Is Soda Making Kids Fat?
Special Report: Low-Carb Diets
Special Report: Obesity in Young Adults
Special Report: Sprawl and Your Waistline
Special Report: The Dangers of Belly Fat
Special Report: The Obesity Epidemic
Special Report: What's Wrong With the American Diet?
Walking Off the Weight
Weight Lifting to Lose Weight
Weight Loss 101, Part 1: Getting Started
Weight Loss 101, Part 2: Eating for Health
Weight Loss 101, Part 3: Get Moving
Weight Loss 101, Part 4: Everyday Strategies
Weight Loss 101, Part 5: Sticking With It
Weight Loss Programs vs. Fad Diets
Weight Loss for Children: A Family Affair
Yo-Yo Dieting
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Resources
-Useful Sites
American Dietetic Association
Centers for Disease Control -- Obesity and Overweight
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH): Food and Nutrition
MEDLINEplus -- Weight Loss and Dieting
Nutrio.com: Nutrition
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Children's Nutrition, Fitness & Weight Control
Drug Information Center
Eating Disorders
Food and Nutrition
Working Out
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