Cultural Healthy Eating Guides
Published Date: August 29, 2023The Obesity Medicine Association, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, has created a number of cultural Healthy Eating Guides to be a resource to clinicians to…
The Obesity Medicine Association, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, has created a number of cultural Healthy Eating Guides to be a resource to clinicians to…
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are defined as “the conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age that…
As societies confront the complexities of obesity, questions about the classification of obesity as a disability have come to the forefront. Disability, traditionally understood as…
Obesity is a complex disease that affects a large proportion of the global population. While obesity is often linked to physical health problems such as…
United States Army Veteran Michael Smith has a great deal to be proud of these days. He walks a mile every Saturday, he can collect his groceries from the…
Each month, the OMA Pediatric Committee reviews a pediatric-focused obesity research update to help keep you up to date about the latest findings. This month’s addresses obesity…
Bias, stigma, and frank discrimination against persons living with obesity are widespread in our society. We are bombarded with ever-increasing direct and indirect messages praising…
Does your health care provider talk to you about your Body Mass Index (BMI) and do you know what it really means? Widely criticized as…
The past few years were filled with many emotions as we adjusted to living through the COVID-19 pandemic. In the US we were also forced…
LGBTQ, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning, as the acronym suggests, is a large minority group in the United States that also…