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The Weight-control Information Network (WIN) is a national information service
of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK),
National Institutes of Health (NIH). WIN was established in 1994 to provide
health professionals and consumers with science-based information on obesity,
weight control, and nutrition. WIN has also developed the Sisters Together: Move
More, Eat Better Media program that encourages Black women 18 and over to
maintain a healthy weight by becoming more physically active and eating
healthier foods.
How can WIN help you?
WIN produces, collects, and disseminates materials on obesity, weight control,
and nutrition.
WIN provides
Publications, including fact sheets, and brochures, article reprints, and
conference and workshop proceedings.
Clinical Weight Loss and Control Lecture Series Videos, taped lectures sponsored
by NIDDK on weight loss and control-related topics.
Clinical Nutrition Research Centers (ONRCs) and Clinical Nutrition Research
Units (CNRUs).
Abstracts, including thousands of references to articles, books, and audiovisual
and educational materials for health care professionals and consumers that are
available as the weight control subfile on the Combined Health Information
Database (CHID) at http://chid.nih.gov.
WIN Notes, a quarterly newsletter for health professionals, features the latest
information from NIDDK and other organizations on obesity, weight control, and
weight-related nutritional disorders. WIN Notes also lists resources available
from other organizations and reports on the National Task Force on Prevention
and Treatment of Obesity activities.
Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better, WIN's media-based program encourages
Black women to maintain their weight by increasing their physical activity and
eating healthy foods.
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