Topic in Focus: Obesity

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5 ways to help patients with obesity make lifestyle changes

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6 reasons to join the AMA

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Practice lands tool to measure, manage gaps in care

Population reports help this practice identify gaps in care and put action items in physicians’ hands in the exam room.

Population Health
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA
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Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA: Advancing patients’ progress against obesity

AMA member Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, rejoices in her patients’ victories, but she does not lose sight of the millions struggling with obesity.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
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Limit junk-food ads that contribute to childhood obesity

AMA wants legislation to limit such marketing. Physicians also call for language-appropriate sex ed for students who lack English proficiency.

Chronic Diseases
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May 17, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

The AMA urges courts to uphold appellate rulings on using "reasonable" layperson considerations, sugary-drink distribution tax and more.

Advocacy Update
Sugary soda being poured from can into a glass.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court to determine sugary-drink tax’s fate

The AMA says the tax helps lower obesity rates and that ruling against it could also jeopardize nontax initiatives to improve the public’s health.

Chronic Diseases
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July 13, 2017: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn about how the AMA and other health care organizations advocates for Pennsylvania sugary drinks tax.

Advocacy Update
Ethan Lazarus, MD
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Person-first, preventive approach needed to tackle obesity

Physicians should view obesity as they do diabetes, with a heavy focus on prevention and a nonjudgmental attitude that engages patients.

Chronic Diseases
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AMA adopts policy to help physicians, students prevent, manage obesity

The AMA today adopted policy during its Annual Meeting that will equip more medical students and physicians to prevent, diagnose and manage obesity

Press Releases
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Court case tests Philadelphia’s sugary drinks tax

The City of Brotherly Love says it can tax the distribution of products that harm public health. The AMA and other health organizations support the tax.

Prevention & Wellness