U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD called it the greatest threat to public health today. It kills more Americans every year than AIDS, all cancers and all accidents combined. And it's causing problems in children that were unthinkable 20 years ago. That is why the American Medical Association (AMA) is working to halt the spread of obesity.

Leaders in the field of preventive health, pediatrics, family practice, nutrition and more, convened at AMA headquarters in Chicago for the first meeting of the AMA Working Group on Managing Childhood Obesity. Their goal: to develop a set of strategies to help physicians more effectively work with families, youth-serving organizations, school health professionals, public health organizations and community groups to reduce overweight and obesity and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in childhood obesity.

The AMA has also been collaborating with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to produce a series of publications entitled, Roadmaps for Clinical Practice – Case Studies in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Roadmaps help physicians and other health professionals identify and reduce health disparities by integrating focused interventions into routine medical care. The latest edition, Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity is now available online.

National Summit on Obesity

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