Health-e-Weight for Women
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/healtheweightforwomen/

Commentary:
This comprehensive site emphasizes healthful eating, which includes information on weight management, but does not encourage dieting as a means to lose weight. The articles cover nutrition basics, tips for easy shopping, the importance of exercise, and long-term strategies for weight maintenance. Interactive tools, such as body mass index, physical activity, and waist-to-hip ratio calculators can help you determine and monitor your goals.

We like the inclusion of "Emotions," a section that explains why we eat and discusses body image and the importance of connecting thoughts to behaviors. We applaud the authors for touching on this, but the information is brief and users may need to talk with their health care provider about some of the mental strategies in more detail.

Note that the food guide pyramid promoted on this site is not the same as the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. The pyramid here was created by a Harvard epidemiologist and emphasizes exercise, vegetable oils, and whole-grain foods, with less emphasis on red meat, dairy products, and certain starchy foods like potatoes and pasta.

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