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July 2022 Letter from the Director

Our Updated Review of State Employee Health Plan Obesity Coverage

  • 2022-07-29

Although obesity imposes an enormous burden on our health care system and the economy, the present landscape of coverage for obesity care is piecemeal. Our fragmented healthcare system makes it difficult to know what care is available and how much it costs.

June 2022 Letter from the Director

How Universities Can Strategically Support Student Weight Loss

  • 2022-06-30

This month's newsletter is written by guest authors Ms. Caitlin P. Bailey and Dr. Melissa A. Napolitano. Ms. Bailey is a PhD student in the Department of Prevention and Community Health. Dr.

May 2022 Letter from the Director

Origins and Activities of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

  • 2022-05-31

The Roundtable on Obesity Solutions, established by the Institute of Medicine (IOM, now the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) in 2014, followed 8 years of the IOM’s engagement with obesity. In 2005, the IOM conducted the first consensus study of obesity, entitled “Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance”, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

April 2022 Letter from the Director

Federal Health Plans Step Up Coverage of Obesity Treatment

  • 2022-04-29

A recent updated guidance sent to health insurance carriers that administer the Federal Employee Health Benefit (FEHB) has clarified that “carriers are not allowed to exclude anti-obesity medications from coverage based on a benefit exclusion or a carve out." This guidance is encouraging and should help in our efforts to increase the number of health insurance plans that cover anti-obesity medications (AOMs).

March 2022 Letter from the Director

Pregnancy-Related Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity

  • 2022-03-31

It is widely accepted that early childhood is a critical period that can set the trajectory of weight and metabolic health for the rest of a child’s lifetime – but a growing body of research is looking even further back in time for predict

February 2022 Letter from the Director

Obesity Care Week 2022

  • 2022-02-28

The STOP Obesity Alliance is proud to be a founding partner of the 8th annual Obesity Care Week, which starts today and runs through Friday, March 5th.
 

January 2022 Letter from the Director

Policy Initiatives to Address Weight Discrimination in Adults and Children

  • 2022-01-31

This month's newsletter is written by guest author Dr. Rebecca Puhl. Dr. Puhl is Deputy Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at The University of Connecticut. She is responsible for identifying and coordinating research and policy efforts aimed at reducing weight bias.

December 2021 Letter from the Director

The Connection Between Ultra-Processed Foods and Endocrine Disruptors

  • 2022-01-03

In this month's newsletter, we examine the relationship between ultra-processed foods and endocrine disrupting chemicals and explore how they may contribute to obesity.

Ultra-processed Foods and Obesity

November 2021 Letter from the Director

AI/ANs: Obesity, Food Systems, and the Pursuit of Health Equity

  • 2021-11-29

November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) make up 1.7% of the total U.S. population.

October 2021 Letter from the Director

Fen-Phen and Medication Mistrust

  • 2021-10-29

Despite the promise of increasingly effective pharmacotherapy for obesity, the rate of prescriptions for weight-loss medications in the US is surprisingly low. A study of over 2.2 million adults from 2009 to 2015 found that the rates of rates of prescriptions for anti-obesity medications (AOMs) ranged from 0.6% to 2.9% of eligible patients. The study results also demonstrated an uneven distribution of these prescriptions.

September 2021 Letter from the Director

Childhood Obesity

  • 2021-09-30

September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. The obesity rate among U.S. youth has steadily increased since the 1990s.

August 2021 Letter from the Director

The Syndemic of COVID-19, Obesity, and Food Insecurity

  • 2021-08-31

This month's newsletter is written by guest author Sydney Pryor. Sydney is currently a second year PhD student in the Department of Health Policy and Management at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health where she is also a Graduate Fellow for the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness. 

July 2021

COVID-19 and Obesity

  • 2021-07-30

As the United States begins to wind down from the worst parts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can begin to take stock of the effects that obesity has had on the outcomes of COVID-19 and  the effects of COVID-19 on the prevalence of obesity. In this month’s newsletter, we review what we have learned about both of these impacts.

Effects of Obesity on COVID-19 Outcomes

June 2021

Understanding Obesity

  • 2021-06-30

This month's newsletter is written by guest author Amelia Corl. Amelia recently graduated from The George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health and is a Research Assistant with the STOP Obesity Alliance. This article was written as a component of the author’s Culminating Experience project titled “A Messaging Framework for Obesity.”

May 2021

Mental Health, Obesity, and Racial Disparities

  • 2021-06-01

Last year for Mental Health Awareness Month we discussed the intersections of mental health, obesity, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, we were focused on the ways lockdowns were affecting mental health.

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