Healthy Santa Cruz County - Weight Control

Local Links

• Local Help & Information: Weight Management
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer programs, help or further information about weight management. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: diet, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, local information, weight control

Library Resources

• Find Books: Weight Loss / Diet
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about weight control / management and diet. Click here to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: books, books / videos, diet, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, weight control

Recommended Websites

• Diet and Weight Loss
  Special features: Interactive "Diet & Weight Loss Toolkit," meal planners, health check tools and calculators, weight loss journal, and online "Weight Loss Community" message board. From Revolution Health
  Browse related subjects: diet, exercise, fitness, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, recommended website, self-care tools, self-help, support, weight control
• Weight Control - MedlinePlus
  Special features: Recipes for healthy living, interactive health check tools, research, clinical trials, news and more. From: NIH / NLM.
  Browse related subjects: diet, food pyramid, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, MedlinePlus, nutrition, recommended website, self-care tools, self-help, support, weight control
• What It Takes to Lose Weight
  Features up-to-date, easy-to-understand information from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
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• WIN - Weight-control Information Network
  Find out about choosing a safe and successful weight loss program. Tips, reproducible fact sheets and links from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  Browse related subjects: diet, healthy eating, recommended website, weight control

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.