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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.

April 2021

Obesity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • 2021-05-03

In January we celebrated the 2-year anniversary of the release of the Lancet Commission on Obesity report, entitled “The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition and Climate Change.” The report focuses on the contributions of the food and agriculture, urban design, land use, and transportation systems, and the triple duty solutions to mitigate their contributions to the Global Syndemic. For example, the transportation sector in the U.S.

March 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines and Obesity

  • 2021-04-07

In March of 2020 we published our first newsletter on the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, we speculated that people with obesity would be adversely affected by COVID-19. One year and over 2.5 million global deaths later, we know that this is the case.

February 2021

Obesity Care Week 2021

  • 2021-02-26

Recognizing that obesity is a complex, chronic disease affecting more than 2 billion people globally, the STOP Obesity Alliance is a founding partner of the 7th annual Obesity Care Week (OCW), which takes place this year from February 28th – March 6th, 2021.
 

January 2021

Adolescent Obesity

  • 2021-02-01

This month's newsletter is written by guest author Faith Newsome. Faith is currently a first year PhD student at the University of Florida in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics working on various projects related to obesity research.

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