Today I’ll make it real short: many of you may recall my recent paper, co-authored by Robert Kushner, President of the Obesity Society and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, on the Edmonton Obesity Staging system.
This story is covered this week in MacLeans Magazine - to read the full story click here.
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AMS, Ottawa, Ontario
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Weight stigma can itself increase weight gain: study
Jan. 26, 2012 Montreal Gazette – Dr. Arya Sharma, scientific director of the Canadian Obesity Network, says it's clear Western culture needs to stop stigmatizing weight gain and start understanding what causes it. "If we don't stop looking at obesity as a character flaw instead of a complex health condition, then we won't be addressing the underlying issues. Shaming, blaming and taxing aren't constructive or positive strategies." Read the article
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May 17th, 2009 at 1:28 am
I am a CON member and hit you up early in the Calgary convention to let you know how appreciative I am of you. Don’t stop. So many of us that have the history of treating the obese and the intelligence to understand the data, are both empathetic to the patient and fearful of the future. I believe Obesity is bigger to our social demise than global warming. I fear that it offers a unique human stigma that will not give it the unbiased media attention it needs, until it is too late. The research and summits are extremely helpful. Get the website loaded up with all you know!!!…how can I help you?
May 17th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Is there a simple inexpensive way to measure visceral fat? Expensive way? Is there a visceal fat scale?
thanks
Bill Graber
May 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
The most sensitive and reproducible technology for assessing visceral fat is CT or MRI. There are some evolving impedence technologies but I am not sure how reliable these are. Waist circumference works for populations but is a crude measure for individuals.
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