Weight Management

Healthy Weight Pyramid: Tool for Weight Loss
This is a food pyramid designed to promote weight loss and long-term health. It helps you select the right kinds of foods and gives suggested amounts to promote your individualized healthy weight.

Food and Mood
Whether eating certain foods affects your mood or there’s a physiologic basis for cravings remains controversial. Some experts believe you choose particular foods for a reason and that eating those foods can change how you’re feeling. Others contend that cravings are simply about the desire to feel good and it is only by leading a healthful lifestyle, and not by eating specific foods that, in general, will you be in a better mood. Here’s what the latest research shows.

Building Your Weight Loss Support Network
Launching a healthy-weight program is a time of great change in your life. Getting support for your efforts — whether through a friend, a trained professional or a group of fellow travelers on the path to a healthy weight — can ultimately mean the difference between your success and failure.

Weight Loss Ads Full of Baloney
The Federal Trade Commission issued a new warning last month for consumers to look out for these common red flags:

• Before-and-After Photos
• Claims of “Rapid” or “Permanent” Weight Loss
• Products that say “No Diet or Exercise Needed”
• “Clinically Proven or Doctor-Approved”
• “Natural” and “Safe”

Learn more about how to look for the truths and untruths of weight loss advertisements.