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The document discusses obesity stigma, highlighting the social and personal challenges faced by individuals affected by obesity due to bias, discrimination, and negative perceptions in various settings such as employment, education, and healthcare. It emphasizes the need for awareness and education to combat weight stigma and provides strategies for individuals and healthcare professionals to address and reduce stigma. The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) aims to eliminate this stigma through advocacy and support.

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What are the actions to prevent obesity?

Such changes may include healthy eating, being physically active, maintaining a healthy weight, managing stress, and getting enough good-quality sleep. Learn more about plans created and tested by NHLBI researchers that can help prevent overweight and obesity.

What are the actions for obesity?

Everyone can take steps to: Eat healthy foods and drink healthy beverages, following the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Get the recommended amount of physical activity. Get enough sleep. Manage stress. Talk to your health care provider about whether weight is a health concern.

What are the stigmas of obesity?

The drivers of stigma The focus on personal responsibility results in blaming people with obesity for their condition, and enables the stereotyping of people with obesity as lazy and lacking in willpower. It is argued by some that stigmatisation of people with obesity will incentivise them to lose weight.

What are the interventions for weight stigma?

We identified five stigma reduction strategies in healthcare: (i) increased education, (ii) causal information and controllability, (iii) empathy evoking, (iv) weight‐inclusive approach, and (v) mixed methodology.

What are 5 ways to control obesity?

Preventing Obesity in Adults Keep a food diary of what you eat, where you were and how you were feeling before and after you ate. Eat five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables daily. Choose whole grain foods, such as brown rice and whole wheat bread. Weigh and measure food to learn correct portion sizes.

What is the procedure for obesity?

Gastric bypass and other types of weight-loss surgery also called bariatric or metabolic surgery involve making changes to your digestive system to help you lose weight. Bariatric surgery is done when diet and exercise havent worked or when you have serious health problems because of your weight.

How do you evaluate obesity interventions?

Key aspects include the following: System-wide use of evidence-based interventions. Timely and useful evaluations. Workforce education for evaluation activities. Periodic assessment and surveillance of obesity-related behaviors and outcomes. Monitoring of changes in policies, programs, built environment, and systems.

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