A collection of guidelines related to overweight and obesity and bariatric surgery for children and adults.

  2023-04-21 – Practice Guideline

A collection of websites related to weight/obesity.

    2021-09-28 – Website

This French Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) report for professionals discusses the prevalence of obesity in adults, children, youth and Indigenous peoples. It also includes the determinants of obesity, economic impact of obesity in Canada and learnings of obesity prevention.

  2021-10-26 – Research Report/Paper

This Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) report discusses the prevalence of obesity in adults, children, youth and Indigenous peoples. It also includes the determinants of obesity, health and economic implications, the impact of obesity in Canada and learnings of obesity prevention.

  2021-10-26 – Research Report/Paper

A collection of websites pertaining to childhood obesity.

     2018-06-28 – Website

A set of practical tools developed by Obesity Canada with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The 5As can be used by health professionals in obesity counselling and management. Additional resources are available for order at various prices.

  2018-06-28 – Professional Education Tools

This publication from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine summarizes presentations from a roundtable on obesity solutions held in 2017 that examined how investments made in the built environment contribute to the prevention and treatment of obesity and affect a community’s health and well-being.

  2018-01-09 – Research Report/Paper

The British Dietetic Association (BDA) policy statement on the UK government’s current childhood obesity strategy and additional actions the BDA feel are needed to reduce the high prevalence of childhood obesity in the UK.

  2020-02-19 – Position Paper/Policy Document

A collection of websites related to bariatric surgery.

     2021-11-09 – Website

This Department of Health (UK) document outlines the steps they will be taking to reduce the rate of obesity within England.

  2020-02-19 – Position Paper/Policy Document