Facts About Weight Loss

The Partnership for Healthy Weight Management is a coalition of representatives from science, academia, the health care professions, government, commercial enterprises, and organizations whose mission is to promote sound guidance on strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.

Partners with information that can help you with issues about overweight and obesity or design your own healthy weight management plan are:

American Dietetic Association
Get Nutrition Fact Sheets at:
American Dietetic Association
Consumer Education Team
216 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60606
(Send self addressed stamped envelope), Call 800-877-1600, ext. 5000 for other publications or 800-366-1655 for recorded food/nutrition messages.

American Obesity Association
1250 24th Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20037
800-98-OBESE

American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP)
5600 S. Quebec, Ste. 109-A
Englewood, CO 80111 USA
Phone: (303) 779-4833, (303) 770-2526
Fax: (303) 779-4834
E-Mail: bariatric@asbp.org

The Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
PO Box 305
Mt. Marion, NY 12456
(Send self-addressed stamped envelope)

Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294

Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Response Center
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580
202-FTC-HELP

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
301-496-3583

North American Association for the Study of Obesity
8630 Fenton Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910

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