Links Library
Organizations
The Academy for Eating Disorders
America on the Move (tm)
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists (ABPNS)
American Council for Fitness & Nutrition
American Diabetes Association
The American Dietetic Association
American Heart Association
American Obesity Association
American Physiological Society
American Society for Bariatric Surgery
American Society for Clinical Nutrition
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Canadian Obesity Network
Centers for Disease Control
European Association for the Study of Obesity
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
The Hormone Foundation
International Association for the Study of Obesity
International Obesity Task Force
Intersociety Professional Nutrition Education Consortium(IPNEC)
Kidney & Urology Foundation of America
Obesity Action Coalition
Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
Shaping America's Youth
Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
Worldwide listing of Associations for the Study of Obesity (from the IOTF website)
Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
Obesity Journals
Obesity —the leading journal on obesity
International Journal of Obesity
Research Centers
Aberdeen Centre for Energy Regulation and Obesity (ACERO)
The Donald B. Brown Research Chair on Obesity
Mayo Clinic & Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Medical University of South Carolina Weight Management Center
The Minnesota Obesity Center
Monell Chemical Senses Center
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health
The New York Obesity Research Center
Obesity Research Center, Boston Medical Center
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Nutrition Sciences (and Obesity Research Center)
University of Colorado Center for Human Nutrition
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Interdisciplinary Obesity Center (IDOC)
University of Pennsylvania Weight and Eating Disorder Program
Recruitment for Obesity Studies (See also Research Center listings above.)
Please Note: Researchers wishing to list their studies in this section must provide The Obesity Society with assurances regarding IRB approval, confidentiality mechanisms, types of information to be obtained, specifics of any intervention, and any other uses of the patient contact information. The Obesity Society also requires reciprocal linking.
ClinicalTrials.gov: -The National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients and the general public with current information about clinical research studies.
Information on Obesity
Association for Coordination and Research in Obesity and Nutrition (in French and English)
CDC: Overweight and Obesity
Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Evidence Report
Food and Nutrition Center (USDA)
Food Surveys Research Group (USDA)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Patient Information Documents on Nutrition and Obesity (NIDDK)
Shape Up America
TOPS: Take Off Pounds Sensibly
Toward a National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity: The Surgeon General's Initiative (December 7 & 8, 2000) (archived videocast)
