Treating obesity with compassion and ccience

By Kathy Ko Chin

"A week of awareness isn’t enough to solve the challenges in how we care for people affected obesity, but is it real progress. These initiatives are critical to promoting a national conversation about broader solutions to address this problem and offer useful resources that will help doctors and patients alike. Disease-awareness campaigns have been successful in reducing heart disease, stroke deaths, and cancer. It’s time we turned our attention to obesity with the same vigor."