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Targeting Structures, Communications, and Beliefs to Advance Practical Strategies for Obesity Solutions: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... Topics covered in the presentations and discussions that occurred at the the April workshop sessions included targeting academic workshop and is not intended to provide a comprehensive and workforce structures that dismantle systemic summary of information shared during the workshop.1 The racism while building an evidence base, the effect of information summarized here reflects the knowledge and communications on perceptions and the understanding of opinions of individual workshop participants and should obesity, and strategies to change the conversation around not be seen as a consensus of the workshop participants, representation in media and body image. the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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... This models. Mental models affect how information is leads to the manifestation of unintended consequences; understood and interpreted and give way to social missing secondary and tertiary effects; worsening of norms that reinforce the problem, such as structural existing disparities and sometimes introducing new racism, which perpetuates the cycle.3 Lee concluded problems; expending time, effort, and resources through by emphasizing the importance of changing the trial and error rather than targeting real solutions; and picture of obesity -- how society views the problem, the introducing multiple sources of bias.
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... also influence the foods that are produced and therefore consumed. Aaron's fourth point was that a biology and She recalled her application of John Kotter's eight steps genetics bias exists in many studies that mention race for change, as documented in his book Leading Change, to and that opining on biology has been perceived to be work toward dismantling barriers in institutions (Kotter, less political than opining on corporate power.
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... in 2019 and 2020 with 39 medical school admissions leaders. She reported that interviewees referenced a lack Eliseo Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on of leadership commitment to dismantling structural Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National racism despite verbal affirmation of the topic's Institutes of Health (NIH)
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... program, in which Lindenfeld discussed three areas of communication awardee institutions receive grant funding to hire annual interventions to strengthen linkages between the cohorts of 6 to 10 faculty who commit to promoting production of knowledge and action, which she said diversity and sustaining cultures of inclusive excellence could spur meaningful change in addressing obesity. in the institution.
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... The advertisement tells a story that connects the related attitudes are problematic from ethical, social product to positive attributes related to Latino culture, justice, and public health lenses, Pearl said, because they he explained, as it features a variety of people from contribute to negative body image and weight stigma and Latino backgrounds who are asked to share their family discrimination (Neumark-Sztainer, 2006; Pearl et al., August 2022 | 6
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... contributors to obesity and the effects of weight stigma and discrimination. In addition to shifting the content of Media ideals of thinness have persisted for generations, news stories, she also called for them to carry images that Levine observed, and she suggested that this theme in depict people with obesity engaging in health-promoting media and marketing has led to "image conditioning," behaviors instead of stereotypical unhealthy behaviors.
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... Dismantling structural racism, communicating https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14614448211038904 more effectively, and changing mental models, if (accessed July 28, 2022)
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... 2022. Weight stigma, policy initiatives, and body satisfaction and health behaviors in adolescent harnessing social media to elevate activism.
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... The statements made are those of Nordisk; Obesity Action Coalition; Partnership for a Healthier the rapporteur or individual workshop participants and do not America; Reinvestment Fund; Rudd Center for Food Policy and necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants; Health; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; SHAPE America; the planning committee; or the National Academies of Sciences, Society of Behavioral Medicine; Stop & Shop Supermarket Engineering, and Medicine. Company; The Obesity Society; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; and Walmart.


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