Weight-control Information Network

The Weight-control Information Network (WIN) is a national information service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH). WIN was established in 1994 to provide health professionals and consumers with science-based information on obesity, weight control, and nutrition. WIN has also developed the Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better Media program that encourages Black women 18 and over to maintain a healthy weight by becoming more physically active and eating healthier foods.

How can WIN help you?

WIN provides

• Publications, including fact sheets, and brochures, article reprints, and conference and workshop proceedings.

• Clinical Weight Loss and Control Lecture Series Videos, taped lectures sponsored by NIDDK on weight loss and control-related topics.

• Clinical Nutrition Research Centers (ONRCs) and Clinical Nutrition Research Units (CNRUs).

• Abstracts, including thousands of references to articles, books, and audiovisual and educational materials for health care professionals and consumers that are available as the weight control subfile on the Combined Health Information Database (CHID) at http://chid.nih.gov.

• WIN Notes, a quarterly newsletter for health professionals, features the latest information from NIDDK and other organizations on obesity, weight control, and weight-related nutritional disorders. WIN Notes also lists resources available from other organizations and reports on the activities of the NIDDK Clinical Obesity Research Panel (CORP).

• Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better, WIN's media-based program encourages Black women to maintain their weight by increasing their physical activity and eating healthy foods.

• Related sites

For more information, write, call, or email us at

The Weight-control Information Network
1 WIN Way
Bethesda, MD 20892-3665
Phone: (202) 828-1025 or 1-877-946-4627
Fax: (202) 828-1028
Email: win@info.niddk.nih.gov

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