While I am currently teaching at a Harvard Medical School course on obesity for obesity educators here in Las Vegas, I thought it may be appropriate to post a link to my recent Obesity Canada web...
This week, I once again presented on the need for recognising obesity as a chronic disease at the annual European Society for the Study of Obesity Collaborating Centres for Obesity (EASO-COMs) in...
https://www.drsharma.ca/time-to-change-the-obesity-narrative
Regular readers should by now be well aware of the importance of using people-first language when referring to people living with obesity (as in “patient with obesity” not “obese patient”...
https://www.drsharma.ca/the-clinical-importance-of-using-people-first-language-in-obesity-management
In the same manner in that there is not one predisposing factor for the development of obesity, the phenotypic clinical presentation of obesity is likewise extraordinarily heterogenous. (This has...
As readers will be well aware, n terms of health risks, fat is not fat is not fat is not fat. Rather, whether or not body fat affects health depends very much on the type of body fat and its loca...
https://www.drsharma.ca/free-webinar-assessing-body-fat-taking-obesity-phenotyping-to-the-next-level
The following is a guest post from my Australian colleague Dr. Georgia Rigas, who reports on the recent recognition of obesity as a disease by the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RA...
https://www.drsharma.ca/guest-post-australian-gps-recognise-obesity-as-a-disease
Achieving and maintaining competencies is an ongoing challenge for all health professionals. But in an area like obesity, where most will have received rather rudimentary training (if any), most ...
https://www.drsharma.ca/what-do-health-professionals-need-to-know-about-obesity
Last week I was an invited plenary speaker at the 1st International Diabetes Expert Conclave (IDEC2017) held in Pune, India. This 3-day event, organised by Drs. Neeta Deshpande (Belgaum), Sanjay...
https://www.drsharma.ca/1st-international-diabetes-expert-conclave-idec-2017
The final and eight item on the disease definition modification checklist developed by the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) Preventing Overdiagnosis Working Group published in JAMA Int...
https://www.drsharma.ca/balancing-benefits-and-harms-from-redefining-obesity
The seventh item on the disease definition modification checklist developed by the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) Preventing Overdiagnosis Working Group published in JAMA Internal Me...
https://www.drsharma.ca/are-there-any-harms-of-redefining-obesity