Publications

1.   Avoiding the Muscle Hustle: Tips for Buying Exercise Equipment Campaign - This publication is a short guide to help consumers choose wisely when shopping for fitness equipment.
   
   
2.   Be Heart Smart! Eat Food Lower in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol - This booklet offers specific information on lowering the fat in your diet and identifies steps to promote healthy lifestyles among African Americans.
   
   
3.   Conditions Men Get, Too - This publication gives examples of some of the diseases that men can get, even though they are more prevalent in women. Some of these conditions include osteoporosis, eating disorders, and breast cancer.
   
   
4.   Exercise: A Guide from the National Institute on Aging - This 80-page illustrated booklet provides healthy older people with scientifically accurate recommendations about exercise.
   
   
5.   Nutrition and Meal Planning - This publication contains information on how diet plays an important role in controlling diabetes.
   
   
6.   Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans - The Dietary Guidelines provide easily understood, science-based information on how Americans can choose diets that promote good health.
   
   
7.   Nutritional Info Available for Raw Fruits, Vegetables, Fish - This fact sheet discusses how the FDA is required by law to make grocers display nutritional facts about raw fruits, vegetables and fish in a visible place.
   
   
8.   Physical Activity and Weight Control - This publication contains information on the relationship between regular exercise and good health including weight control, heart disease prevention and diabetes prevention.
   
   
9.   Questions and Answers About Arthritis and Exercise - This fact sheet answers general questions about arthritis and exercise. The amount and form of exercise recommended for each individual will vary depending on which joints are involved, the amount of inflammation, how stable the joints are, and whether a joint replacement procedure has been done. A skilled physician who is knowledgeable about the medical and rehabilitation needs of people with arthritis, working with a physical therapist also familiar with the needs of people with arthritis, can design an exercise plan for each patient.
   
   
10. Enhancing Male Body Image (Copyright © NEDA) - This fact sheet contains information on strategies for prevention and early intervention of male eating disorders. This fact sheet also includes a section about enhancing male body image.
    
    

Organizations

1.   Food and Nutrition Information Center, NAL, USDA
   
   
2.   Nutrition.Gov
   
   
3.   Weight Control Information Network, NIDDK, NIH, HHS