Obesity
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Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention – Solving the Weight of the Nation
This report is part of a series of publications dedicated to providing accessible and useful information and analysis to policy makers and others working to turn the obesity epidemic around.…
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Fighting Obesity Requires Collective Solutions
Why is this important? This 16 page report, titled “The Failure of Obesity Efforts and the Collective Nature of Solutions,” surveyed more than 700 clinicians and experts nationwide and then summarizes…
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New Obesity Guidelines: Promise and Potential
This report summarizes the new NIH physician obesity guidelines published in JAMA. This very brief summary report addresses the new recommendations from NIH for PCPs in treating obesity in patients. …
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Obesity in the Workplace: Impacts, Outcomes and Recommendations
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) is the authoritative group that provides guidance to health professionals that serve and care for employee populations in work organizations. This…
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Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity
Introduction: Estimates of obesity prevalence based on current BMI are an important, but incomplete indicator of the total effects of obesity on a population. Methods: In this study, data on…
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Prevalence of Obesity by Occupation Among US Workers
This article provides data on the prevalence of obesity by occupation. This data can be used to compare your own organization with national trend data on the prevalence of overweight…
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Update on Status and Clinical Significance of Obesity
Summary: These two new articles from JAMA provide clear epidemiological and clinical evidence regarding our need to further address obesity in all populations. Recent epidemiological evidence places a new urgency…
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What’s New in Obesity Management?
This 13 page Review article provides an excellent overview of the medical issues in understanding obesity and its management. With more than 2/3 rds of Americans over the age of…
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