Obesity Health Alliance have published their 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy laying out a long-term agenda for UK Government action which makes it possible for everyone to move towards attaining, sustaining and enjoying improved wellbeing and healthy weight.
Continue reading “Obesity Health Alliance Launches Healthy Weight Strategy”Weight Stigma in the media
People living with overweight or obesity face pervasive stigmatisation, social devaluation, and discrimination based on their body size. OEN UK has launched the ‘Stand Up to Weight Stigma’ campaign to highlight the nature and extent of this discrimination in various different settings and bring change.
OEN member, Liv Sewell spoke with Dr Stuart W. Flint, Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity at the University of Leeds, about the extent and impact of weight-based stigma in the media. In this post Liv summarises what we know…
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In this post we highlight World Obesity recommendations for addressing obesity in children and call on Her Majesty’s Government to utilise the recommendations to drive policy addressing childhood obesity forward.
Continue reading “Stepping up action on childhood obesity”Weight Stigma at Work: Moving from analysis to action
In this second guest post for the ‘Stand Up to Weight Stigma’ campaign, Dr Zofia Bajorek highlights steps key stakeholders must take to ensure active and fair participation in the labour market for people living and working with obesity.
Continue reading “Weight Stigma at Work: Moving from analysis to action”Obesity? The time to talk is now.
On 23 February 2021, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) hosted the ‘Obesity? The time to talk is now: Addressing stigma and building confidence in discussions around healthy weight’ webinar.
Continue reading “Obesity? The time to talk is now.”Professor Farooqi becomes a Royal Society Fellow
We are delighted to announce that OEN Steering Group member Professor Sadaf Farooqi has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis and their disruption in obesity.
Skinny Genes
It is commonly thought that being thin is down to choices – eating choices and activity choices. This has lead to thinness being associated with a kind of personal fortitude or moral superiority and overweight and obesity being associated with personal weakness and moral inferiority. But current scientific understanding does not support this position.
Continue reading “Skinny Genes”Why are OEN UK Champions so valuable?
Champions are central to OEN’s vision for improving the health and lives of people living with obesity. We spoke with OEN founding member and Champion, Maggie Clinton, about the Champion role and our conversation formed the basis for this post.
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In this post we continue the blog series marking the launch of the Obesity Empowerment Network Strategic Plan 2020-2023 in which we meet the individuals who developed it. This time we are speaking with Maggie Clinton, OEN UK Founding Member and Trustee, about why OEN UK is working to improve preventative and treatment strategies for obesity.
Continue reading “Working to improve preventative and treatment strategies for obesity”People, patients, and professionals
OEN UK was founded as a network by, and for, people living with obesity and professionals working in the field. This is unique to OEN. In this post, continuing the series of blogs marking the launch of the Obesity Empowerment Network Strategic Plan 2020-2023, founding member Maggie Clinton explains why this decision was made and why OEN’s fundamental commitment to collaborative working is important.
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