Childhood obesity

I stumbled across an interesting site that offers an "energy calculator" to help parents figure out how much food their child needs. As the site points out, children should not be put on "diets" but I'm sure it is difficult to estimate how much a growing child needs -- especially since that probably changes from year to year, if not month to month, when they are growing a lot.

Exercise and diet

I joined two web sites that help you track your exercise and diet goals. The first is called The Daily Plate. This one seems to be more complete. It allows you to track all your food and calculates the calories for you; plus you can add in your exercise for the day so it helps you determine if you're staying within your goals for calories in and calories out. Just what I need!

The second one is called Traineo and this seems more geared toward tracking your exercise. I bet it would be especially good for someone training for a marathon or something like that. Both sites have forums for partipants to discuss things and I think that might be helpful too.