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• CalorieKing

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  This website is a comprehensive guide to weight management that helps you track your diet and change your habits.  In addition to its database of 70,000 foods, CalorieKing offers a food and exercise diary, practical help and tips, step-by-step guidance, interactive goal setting, and motivation and support from the CalorieKing community.  A program for physicians is also available.

  CalorieKing

• Changing Your Habits: Steps to Better Health

  This tip sheet offers strategies to help you improve your eating and physical activity habits.  Whether you feel like change is a world away or just around the corner, the information here can help you get started.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• ChooseMyPlate.gov

  ChooseMyPlate.gov from the USDA illustrates the five food groups that are the building blocks for a healthy diet and provides tools for diet/calorie tracking and information on weight management, physical activity, and healthy eating. Some materials available in Spanish.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Conversation Map

  This program brings face-to-face, small-group sessions to life through conversation maps.  With the help of a trained facilitator, participants focus on the health information most relevant to them and relate it to their own experiences.  At the end of each session, participants create a workable plan for using what they learn to drive meaningful behavior change in their lives.  Training for facilitators is available.

  Healthy Interactions

• Cut Back on Sweet Treats

  This tip sheet gives ten tips for reducing your child's sugar intake by eating healthy foods instead of sweets.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Cut Down on Salt and Sodium!/¡Coma menos sal y sodio!

  This bilingual Spanish and English guide provides healthy tips for reducing salt and sodium in your diet to lower your blood pressure. En español

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Daily Burn

  Registration Required

  This resource helps you by providing nutritional tracking tools and fitness plans to help you reach your weight goals.

  Daily Burn

• Diabetes Etiquette

  This tip sheet provides information on how family members and friends can interact with those with diabetes in a polite and helpful manner.

  Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI)

• Diabetes Families

  This resource provides tools for behavior change and information on how to create new healthy habits as well as a network to connect and share with other concerned families.

  Diabetes Families

• Diabetes Foot Care

  This online multimedia tutorial provides an overview of proper foot care for patients with diabetes.

  MedlinePlus