Most recent by Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, MACP, FAAP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS
Unhealthy food advertising disproportionately targets Black, Hispanic consumers
Food and beverage companies in the United States disproportionately target Black and Hispanic consumers with advertisements for high-calorie, low-nutrient products, a study found.
VIDEO: Racial, ethnic disparities in women’s cardiometabolic health must be reduced
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — In this Healio video exclusive, a speaker at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress Women’s Cardiometabolic Health and Wellness Masterclass discusses racial and ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic health.
VIDEO: Stigma hampers care for people with excess weight and diabetes
BALTIMORE — In this video exclusive, Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Fatima C. Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, about how weight stigma affects access to obesity and diabetes care.
VIDEO: Managing obesity with nutrition, pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery
CHICAGO — In this video, Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board Member Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, discusses her presentations on obesity from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.
Q&A: Physicians weigh in as attacks on health care continue in Ukraine
WHO estimates there have been upwards of two attacks per day on health care infrastructure in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of the country.
Metabolic adaptation increases time to achieve weight-loss goals for premenopausal women
After a 16% weight loss, premenopausal women with overweight experienced metabolic adaptation associated with a longer time than predicted to achieve weight-loss goals, according to study results published in Obesity.
Eating more whole grains may help patients maintain waist size, BP, blood sugar
Patients who ate at least three servings of whole grains per day had smaller increases in waist circumference, BP and fasting glucose concentration than patients who ate less than half a serving per day, data show.
Physical inactivity is ‘significant global health burden’
Worldwide, 7.2% of deaths from all causes and 7.6% of deaths from CVD were attributable to physical inactivity, according to recent data.
Timing of eating, not duration, associated with better cardiometabolic health
Adults who ate their first meal before 8:30 a.m. each day had lower insulin resistance compared with those who started eating after 8:30 a.m., independent of eating interval duration, according to data presented at the ENDO annual meeting.
Diagnosis, discussion and direction key to ‘effective’ obesity care
The “3D approach” — formally diagnosing patients with obesity, initiating weight discussions and offering guidance and direction — helps facilitate “effective obesity care,” researchers wrote.