Obesity 2009
Thanks to all who joined us in Washington, DC, to participate in Obesity 2009, the largest and most-comprehensive program in the field of obesity!
Next year's meeting, Obesity 2010, is scheduled for October 8-12, 2010 in San Diego, CA.
Please see the following meeting-related resources to obtain information about Obesity 2009:
Continuing Education Credit Evaluations
For those who attended Obesity 2009 in Washington, DC, October 24-28, we are pleased to inform you of the Continuing Education Credit Evaluations that are available to you through the Live Learning Center.
For your convenience, the Continuing Education Evaluation System for Obesity 2009 is available online. Simply visit The Obesity Society’s Live Learning Center to complete your evaluation and receive your certificate for the sessions you attended in Washington.
This year, for the first time, we are offering five different types of continuing education credit (CME, CPE, CEU, CNE, and CPEU). The evaluation process is uniform for all of the different types.
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To access the online Continuing Education Evaluation System:
Go to www.softconference.com/obesity
- Click on 'Annual Meetings'
- Then, in the box with the 2009 meeting logo, you will see 'Click here to go to the Online Evaluation and Continuing Education Credit Application System.' Click on that link.
- Enter your badge number from the lower-right-hand corner of your annual meeting name badge and the email address you used to register for the meeting, then click on 'Login' to enter the site.
- Once you have completed the evaluation of each session you attended, simply choose the type of continuing education you wish and print out your certificate for your records.
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at: education@obesity.org or call:301-563-6526.
Live Learning Center Preview
The Obesity Society's annual meetings are packed with so much valuable scientific programming that it's not always possible to attend all the sessions you want. The Live Learning Center solves that problem by offering annual meeting content digitally so that it's available for you to access whenever and wherever it's convenient for you. To give you an idea of what the Live Learning Center is all about, we've made two sessions from the 2008 meeting available for you to check out now. Just go to: http://www.obesity.org/education/live_learning_center.asp and click on each of these sessions to see what you're missing. |
Obesity Driving America's Healthcare to a Tipping Point
The Obesity Society and other steering committee members of the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, and two former US Surgeons General, join together today to develop effective recommendations to urge policymakers to act on the inclusion of obesity as the largest and most urgent driving factor in healthcare reform.
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The Obesity Society Calls Billboard Campaign Offensive and Off-Target
The Obesity Society strongly opposes the current billboard campaign from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) promoting vegetarianism at the expense of stigmatizing overweight and obese persons.
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The Obesity Society Position on Recent Criticism of Surgeon General Nominee Regina Benjamin
The Obesity Society states its position in response to recent criticism regarding President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Regina Benjamin, his candidate to serve as the next Surgeon General.
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Obesity Medicine Certification
In an unprecedented collaboration, ten professional societies have joined forces to develop an obesity medicine certification examination. More Details.
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This Month in Obesity
Featured articles in Obesity this month include:
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Obesity and television watching in Greek preschoolers
INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Circadian timing of eating and weight gain
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Psychosocial stress and BMI change in blacks
The Lehman Series: Updated Evidence-based Recommendations for Best Practices in Weight Loss Surgery
This report from the Expert Panel on WLS has been requested and funded by the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction (Lehman Center). Its purpose is to improve the safety and well-being of patients who undergo Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Since the publication of the original Lehman Center guidelines in 2005, certain hospitals in the state have discontinued their WLS programs, while new ones, accredited by the ASMBS/SRC or the ACS, have entered the field. Since 2005, the mortality rate for WLS in the state of Massachusetts has been 0.25%, far below the national average. The earlier version of this document achieved its objectives. It was also instrumental in shaping policy and setting best practice standards on a national and international scale.
Obesity Society members may access the journal Obesity online through a special link to the website maintained by our publisher, Nature Publishing Group.
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Weight Bias and Stigmatization
The Weight Bias Task Force fact sheet, Obesity, Bias, and
Stigmatization, examines the
serious and pervasive social consequences of being overweight and
obese and addresses five key questions:
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What is weight stigma?
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Where does weight stigma occur?
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What are the consequences of weight stigma?
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How are children affected by weight stigma?
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How can weight stigma be reduced?
Your Weight and Diabetes
Over seventeen million Americans (6.2% of the population) have diabetes. Almost 6 million Americans are unaware they have the disease. There are two main types of diabetes. Both types are caused by problems in how a hormone called insulin (that helps regulate blood sugar) works. Type 1 diabetes most often appears in childhood or adolescence and causes high blood sugar when your body can't make enough insulin. Over 90% of all diabetes cases are what we call type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is usually diagnosed after age forty; however it is now being found in all ages including children and adolescents. Type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity and physical inactivity.
Weight and Diabetes Fact Sheet |
