Link to Mbodyment Fitness
ORGANIZATIONS
The Academy for Eating
Disorders
America on the Move
(tm)
American Academy of
Pediatrics (AAP)
American Board of Physician
Nutrition Specialists (ABPNS)
American Council for Fitness &
Nutrition
American Diabetes
Association
The
American Dietetic Association
American
Heart
Association
American Obesity
Association
American Physiological
Society
American Society for Bariatric
Surgery
American Society for
Nutritional Sciences
Canadian Obesity
Network
Centers for Disease Control
European Association for the
Study of Obesity
Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
The Hormone Foundation
International Association for the
Study of Obesity
International Obesity Task
Force
Intersociety Professional Nutrition
Education Consortium(IPNEC)
Kidney &
Urology Foundation of America
Obesity
Action Coalition
Partnership for
Healthy Weight Management
Shaping
America's Youth
Society for the Study of
Ingestive Behavior
Worldwide listing of
Associations for the Study of Obesity (from the IOTF
website)
Yale Rudd Center for Food
Policy & Obesity
OBESITY JOURNALS
Obesity —the
leading journal on obesity
International Journal of
Obesity
RESEARCH CENTERS
Aberdeen Centre
for Energy Regulation and Obesity (ACERO)
Mayo Clinic & Foundation for
Medical Education and Research
Merck Frosst/CIHR Research
Chair in Obesity
The Minnesota Obesity
Center
Monell Chemical Senses
Center
The National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National
Institutes of Health
The
New York Obesity Research Center
Pennington Biomedical Research
Center
University of
Alabama at Birmingham Department of Nutrition Sciences (and Obesity
Research Center)
University of Colorado
Center for Human Nutrition
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Interdisciplinary Obesity Center (IDOC)
University of
Pennsylvania Weight and Eating Disorder Program
RECRUITMENT FOR OBESITY STUDIES (See also Research Center
listings above.)
Please Note: Researchers wishing to list their studies in this
section must provide The Obesity Society with assurances regarding
IRB approval, confidentiality mechanisms, types of information to
be obtained, specifics of any intervention, and any other uses of
the patient contact information. The Obesity Society also requires
reciprocal linking.
ClinicalTrials.gov:
-The National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of
Medicine, developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients and the
general public with current information about clinical research
studies.
INFORMATION ON OBESITY
Association for Coordination
and Research in Obesity and Nutrition (in French and
English)
CDC: Overweight
and Obesity
Clinical
Guidelines
on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of
Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Evidence Report
Food and Nutrition Center (USDA)
National
Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of
Health
Patient
Information Documents on Nutrition and Obesity (NIDDK)
Shape Up America
TOPS: Take Off Pounds
Sensibly
Toward a
National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity: The Surgeon
General's Initiative (December 7 & 8, 2000) (archived
videocast)
