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"Are You Eating Right?" Consumer Reports. October 1992, pp. 644-55. This article summarizes advice from 68 nutrition experts and includes a discussion on weight control and the health risks of obesity.

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, Fourth Edition, 1995. U.S. Department of Agriculture. This booklet answers some of the basic questions about healthy eating and describes the Food Guide Pyramid and food labels. It also emphasizes the importance of physical activity in maintaining or improving your weight.

Additional Resources

National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute Information Center
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Tel: (301) 251-1222
Web: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm

Office on Smoking and Health Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Mail Stop K-50
4770 Buford Highway, NE
Atlanta, GA 30341-3724
Tel: (770) 488-5705; (800) CDC-1311
Web: www.cdc.gov/tobacco

American Lung Association
1740 Broadway
New York, NY 10019-4274
Tel: (212) 315-8700; (800) LUNG-USA
Web: http://www.lungusa.org/

American Cancer Society
1599 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
Tel: (404) 320-3333; (800) ACS-2345
Web: www.cancer.org/frames.html

American Heart Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
Tel: (800) AHA-USA1
Web: www.americanheart.org/

Nicotine Anonymous World Services
P.O. Box 591777
San Francisco, CA 94159-1777
Tel: (415) 750-0328
Web: nicotine-anonymous.org