Posts Tagged ‘OCAN’

This week in Washington, DC, advocates for persons living with obesity from all over America will come together to speak with their elected representative about the reintroduction of the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (TROA) in both the U.S. Senate and House. This is an important, bipartisan effort to address the harm of obesity to […]

After a day of a National Obesity Policy Forum at the Top of the Hill in Washington, it was plain that we have witnessed a profound shift in the conversation about policy to address obesity. No more lip service about nudging America to “eat healthy” as the answer to a high prevalence of this disease. […]

“I just worry about opening the floodgates.” These are the kinds of things you might hear when you talk to folks who’ve never lived with obesity about access to care. But undaunted by such implicit bias, 35 volunteers made more than 100 visits with their elected representatives to ask for real action now on obesity. […]