Learn weight control with free booklet

Choosing the right foods is not enough for weight loss and weight control; you need to watch how much of those foods you eat. The Weight-control Information Network has a free booklet, “Just Enough for You,” that explains a great deal about healthful portion sizes, including illustrations showing the size of servings of various foods, hints for controlling portions at home, and more.

You can view the whole brochure and many others at the WIN Web site, www.win.niddk.nih.gov. (WIN is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health). Or to order a free copy (“Just Enough for You” is publication WIN-03-5287), call (877) 946-4627 or send your name and address to Weight Control Information Network, 1 Win Way, Bethesda, MD 20892-3665.

Eating-Green Info

If you aren’t a vegetarian, but would like more information about eating a plant-based diet, go to www.eatinggreen.org. That’s the Web site for the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s new book, “Six Arguments for a Greener Diet/How a more plant-based diet could save your health and the environment.” You can order the book there: It’s $14.95; free shipping.

For more-immediate dismay, you can take a couple of quizzes at the site to rate your diet. Some more-modest-than-truthful answers on the amounts of beef, chicken, pork, dairy and eggs eaten in a week produced the startling statistic that “the animals (I) eat” create 5,612 pounds of manure a year.