Topic in Focus: Obesity

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Adult obesity rates rise in 6 states, exceed 35% in 7

Report documents record number of obese adults and children. Find out which states, and which demographic groups, have links to higher obesity rates.

Public Health
Lauren Benning, medical student
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3 MIN READ

Lauren Benning: Reducing the obesity stigma

AMA member and medical student Lauren Benning aims to take a practical, nonjudgmental approach to treating obesity.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
A female nutrionist educating a group on diet.
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4 MIN READ

Targeting populations to overcome barriers in diabetes prevention

This ACO’s integrated, community-based approach to helping their patients with diabetes and prediabetes has reaped rewards and can serve as a model.

Diabetes
Cartoon picture of a doctor helping a patient cross a bridge.
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Practice lands tool to measure, manage gaps in care

Population reports help this practice identify gaps in care and put action items in physicians’ hands in the exam room.

Population Care
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA
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Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA: Advancing patients’ progress against obesity

AMA member Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, rejoices in her patients’ victories, but she does not lose sight of the millions struggling with obesity.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
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2 MIN READ

Limit junk-food ads that contribute to childhood obesity

AMA wants legislation to limit such marketing. Physicians also call for language-appropriate sex ed for students who lack English proficiency.

Public Health
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May 17, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

The AMA urges courts to uphold appellate rulings on using "reasonable" layperson considerations, sugary-drink distribution tax and more.

Advocacy Update
Sugary soda being poured from can into a glass.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court to determine sugary-drink tax’s fate

The AMA says the tax helps lower obesity rates and that ruling against it could also jeopardize nontax initiatives to improve the public’s health.

Public Health
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July 13, 2017: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn about how the AMA and other health care organizations advocates for Pennsylvania sugary drinks tax.

Advocacy Update