More than half the people in New Hampshire are obese or overweight, including 20 percent of the state’s children.

As health professionals and educators, you understand the layers of complexity behind these statistics. The obesity epidemic involves more than individual choices about food and exercise.

It involves dramatic changes in patterns of work and family life in recent decades, changes in land use and community design, competition for leisure time, and jobs that require increasingly less manual labor.

To help you navigate the complex topic of healthy weight management, we’ve assembled these professional pages as your one-stop locator for obesity-prevention tools, reference materials, organizations, research centers, professional journal abstracts, and grant-writing information.

We also hope you’ll use the food and nutrition, fitness, community, and motivational pages of this site to inform yourself and to guide and educate your clients.