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National Institutes of Health

NIH News in Health Features

Don’t Just Sit There! Move For Your Health

If you’re like most people nationwide, you spend more than half of your waking hours sitting or inactive for long stretches of time—at work, at school, in the car or watching TV. Here’s why you should consider standing up instead of putting your feet up.

Shape Your Family’s Habits: Helping Kids Make Healthy Choices

With your help, kids can learn to develop healthy eating and physical activity habits that last throughout their lives.

Weighty Issues for Kids: Taking Aim at Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity puts kids at risk for a host of lifelong medical conditions. Fortunately, there’s a lot that families and communities can do to help reduce childhood obesity.

Recommended NIH Resources

Aim for a Healthy Weight
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is important for overall health and can help you prevent and control many diseases and conditions. This website can jumpstart your efforts, with tips and tools for controlling weight, eating right, being physically active and more.

Calculate Your Body Mass Index
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women.

NIH and the Weight of the Nation
(Office of the Director)
The 4-part HBO Documentary Films series on obesity, "The Weight of the Nation," highlights several NIH research advances and addresses the factors contributing to the country’s obesity problem. The films are the centerpiece to a public awareness campaign, which also includes a 3-part HBO Family series for kids, 12 short films, a website and social media, and a nationwide community-based outreach effort using free film discussion guides and other tools.

We Can! Ways to Enhance Children’s Activities & Nutrition
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity & Nutrition) is a national program designed to provide parents, caregivers, and communities with information and tools to prevent childhood obesity and help children 8 to 13 years old stay at a healthy weight.

Weight-control Information Network
(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
The Weight-control Information Network provides the general public, health professionals, the media, and Congress with up-to-date, science-based information on weight control, obesity, physical activity, and related nutritional issues.


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