Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Overweight and Obesity

Discusses obesity trends, health and economic consequences and provides recommendations and resources for reaching and maintaining a healthy weight.

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) works to improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers.

ChooseMyPlate.gov

USDA's food guidance system to help consumers build healthier diets.

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) and Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)

Downloadable tables and charts of Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for all nutrients categorized by age and gender. Also includes information on Macronutrients, Phytonutrients (including general information, government-related sites, and resources on specific phytonutrients such as tea, lycopene, and phytoestrogens) and Vitamins and Minerals

Food Composition: USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL)

Portal to extensive online resources compiled by the USDA. Includes information on:

• Searchable Food Composition Database
• Dietary Supplements
• Food and Nutrition Surveys
• Surveys, Reports and Research
• FNIC Resource Lists    links to food and nutrition information from various U.S. Government resources
• Consumer Corner    Information about food and nutrition topics designed especially for consumers.

Healthier US

Provides access to consumer resources concerning nutrition, physical fitness, and disease prevention.

Interactive Toolbox

The Interactive Toolbox contains links to Web sites that allow consumers and professionals to input information and receive individual feedback to help with dietary assessment and planning, checking personal health risks, testing knowledge, and evaluating needs.

The National Agricultural Library

Portal to extensive online resources for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government personnel from the USDA. Includes printable format educational materials, government reports, research papers and more.

Nutrition for Everyone

The CDC has compiled a variety of resources with healthy eating tips and information that sorts through nutrition and food choices.

Nutrition.gov

Portal to all federal government agency resources on nutrition. Includes more than 1000 links to current nutritional information. Content designed for both nutritionists and consumers.

Let's Move!

The Let’s Move! campaign, started by First Lady Michelle Obama, has an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight.

U.S. National Physical Activity Plan

The Plan is a comprehensive set of policies, programs, and initiatives that aim to increase physical activity in all segments of the American population.

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Provides a variety of nutrition and fitness information, ranging from new governmental policies to articles detailing the most current nutritional findings and health related research.

Office of Dietary Supplements

Information on dietary supplements from the National Institutes of Health. Includes information on nutrient recommendations, fact sheets and bibliographies. Content for both consumers and researchers.

USDA's Food and Nutrition Center

Alphabetized list of food and nutrition topics available from the USDA's Agriculture library

Healthy Youth Nutrition Topics

This site provides information about school nutrition programs and policies, and statistics related to adolescent nutrition and health.