Learn about healthy weight
Most people think that being at a healthy weight means being "thin." Actually, a healthy weight is the weight your body naturally settles into when you eat nutritious foods, are active, and balance how much you eat with how much you exercise. It's more about healthy living than what you weigh. In our topics, you'll find information on how to eat healthier, how to start an exercise program, and much more.
Browse our topics on healthy weight, or start with these:
- Weight Management
- Healthy Eating
- Obesity
- Fitness
- Interactive Tool: Is Your Weight Increasing Your Health Risk?
More Information
Health Topics
- Adjustable gastric banding surgery
- Alternative Diet Programs
- Biliopancreatic diversion
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans—2005
- Fitness
- Gastric bypass
- Healthy Eating
- Healthy Eating for Children
- Interactive Tool: Are You at Risk for a Heart Attack?
- Interactive Tool: How Many Calories Did You Burn?
- Interactive Tool: Is Your Weight Increasing Your Health Risks?
- Interactive Tool: What Is Your Child's BMI?
- Interactive Tools
- Liposuction
- Low-Carb Diets for Weight Loss
- Moderate Diets for Weight Loss
- Obesity
- Restrictive operations: Stomach stapling (vertical banded gastroplasty) or gastric banding
- Very Low-Fat Diets for Weight Loss
- Weight Management
Take Action
- COPD: Avoiding weight loss
- Healthy eating: Changing your eating habits
- Healthy eating: Cutting unhealthy fats from your diet
- Healthy eating: Getting support when changing your eating habits
- Healthy eating: Making healthy choices when you eat out
- Healthy eating: Making healthy choices when you shop
- Healthy eating: Overcoming barriers to change
- Healthy eating: Recognizing your hunger signals
- Healthy eating: Starting a plan for change
- Healthy eating: Staying with your plan
- Heart failure: Checking your weight
- Quitting smoking: Dealing with weight gain
- Weight management: Using positive thinking
Credits
| Author | Merrill Hayden |
| Editor | Katy E. Magee, MA |
| Associate Editor | Michele Cronen |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine |
| Last Updated | November 21, 2007 |
| Author: | Merrill Hayden | Last Updated: November 21, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine | |
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