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Addressing Obesity
A Chronic Disease Requiring Whole Of Society Action
EASO launch new infographic explaining obesity as a chronic disease requiring equitable, whole-of-society action, healthier environments, and stigma-free, person-centred communication and care.
Infographic
EASO Infographic Health Impact of Obesity on Males and Females
EASO infographic on the framework illustrating obesity’s multi-system health impacts, updated diagnostic criteria, and supporting inclusive, person-centred clinical and educational use.
Nature Medicine
A new framework for the diagnosis, staging and management of obesity in adults
EASO presents a new framework for the diagnosis, staging and management of obesity in adults to better align with the concept of obesity as an adiposity-based chronic disease.
NICE
Overweight and obesity management
NICE published guidelines on the prevention and management of overweight, obesity and central adiposity in children, young people and adults.
EASO
EASO Obesity Taxonomy
Accurate framing and consistent terminology use is vital for ensuring accurate diagnosis, effective treatment.
EASO
Children and Adolescents
Establish a daily routine for the family Waking up, mealtimes and snacks, school work schedule, break times, exercising, entertainment and fun, and bedtime.
EASO
Energy Expenditure
Get active while watching TV Stretch and lift your legs, move your hands, clap your hands, use cans or bottles as dumbbells. Dance during each commercial!
EASO
Energy Intake
Develop a schedule for yourself and your family which includes meals; try to maintain your usual mealtimes.
EASO
Indoor Exercise Options
Build up the time you spend doing each of these gradually. Start on day 1 with 10 mins, then do 10 minute blocks three time per day.
EASO
Resilience and Mental Health
Follow regular schedules for waking up, dressing, eating, exercising, working, entertainment, and going to sleep.
Obesity UK : Language Matters
The GateKeeper, The GoGetter and the Sleepy Executive
Dr Arya Sharma
The End to Fat Shaming Begins Here
Jan 2025
New Lancet publication on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity
This latest publication looks to define clinical obesity as a condition of illness that, akin to the notion of chronic disease in other medical specialties. The document was developed to establish objective criteria for disease diagnosis, aiding clinical decision making and prioritisation of therapeutic interventions and public health strategies.
Feb 2024
New International Obesity Collaborative Consensus Statement
10 Organisations have developed a new International Obesity Collaborative Consensus Statement on Obesity vs. Weigh loss and Body Mass Index.
Feb 2024
One in eight people are now living with obesity
New study released by the Lancet shows that, in 2022, more than 1 billion people in the world are now living with obesity. Worldwide, obesity among adults has more than doubled since 1990, and has quadrupled among children and adolescents (5 to 19 years of age). The data also show that 43% of adults were overweight in 2022. The study also shows that even though the rates of undernutrition have dropped, it is still a public health challenge in many places, particularly in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Feb 2024
The Lancet Report : Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022
Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories.
Sept 2023 - OPRAH & ANTI-OBESITY MEDICATIONS
This discussion with OPRAH WINFREY highlights how anti-obesity medications work, how we should stop the shame and blame and how we need to understand the difference between mindset and willpower. The narrative is changing, and we all can do our part in challenging stigma.
I don’t know that there is another public person whose weight struggles have been exploited as much as mine,” Oprah said recently before a live audience at the Hearst Tower in New York City. The State of Weight, a conversation with Oprah, obesity specialists Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, and Melanie Jay, MD, Sima Sistani (CEO of WeightWatchers), and psychologist Rachel Goldman, PhD, part of Oprah Daily’s “The Life You Want” series, helps reframe the obesity and weight crisis that affects two out of every five adults globally
PATIENT LOUNGE
ECPO March 2023 World Obesity Day Patient Lounge
ECPO World Obesity Day Patient Lounge Vicki Mooney interviews Sam Hunter, “The Whale” playwright. (Scroll down when you click on the link)
ECPO
Voices of Youth in Obesity Podcast 2023
ECPO “Voices of Youth in Obesity” Rhys shares his experiences
QUALITY OF LIFE
2022 Publication - Outcomes of the first global multidisciplinary consensus meeting including persons living with obesity to standardize patient-reported outcome measurement in obesity treatment research
Quality of life is a key outcome that is not rigorously measured in obesity treatment research due to the lack of standardization of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and PRO measures (PROMs). The S.Q.O.T. initiative was founded to Standardize Quality of life measurement in Obesity Treatment.
This consensus meeting was a first step toward standardizing PROs (what to measure) and PROMs (how to measure) in obesity treatment research. It provides an overview of the key PROs and a first selection of the PROMs that can be used to evaluate these PROs.
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IS Obesity a Choice?
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Living with Obesity
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Ytisebo and obesity
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You are not alone
radical global action
2022 Publication - The Lancet Commission STIGMA CONSENSUS STATEMENT
Publication : The Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health “Experts call for radical global action to end #stigma and #discrimination against people with #mentalhealth conditions, as this is often ‘worse than the condition itself’. https://kcl.ac.uk/news/the-lancet-commission-on-ending-stigma-and-discrimination-in-mental-health | https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight