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Obesity Medicine e-Weekly
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News
 Find your CME/CE pathway
Do you know where you want your education to take you? ASBP continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education (CE) activities can help you reach your goals. Whether you're starting out in obesity medicine, starting a practice, studying for the certification exam, or learning about the latest treatment modalities, we have a CME/CE activity to meet your needs. Click here to discover your CME/CE pathway.
Recordings from Obesity Medicine 2015 now available
CD and DVD recordings from Obesity Medicine 2015 have arrived! If you attended the conference in Denver, refresh your memory about what you learned. If you missed Obesity Medicine 2015, order a recording of the conference to learn what you missed -- and earn CME credit! Place your order online now. All recordings come with a syllabus of the course(s) purchased. (If you already pre-ordered your Obesity Medicine 2015 recordings, orders started shipping today.)
 We've reached 150 issues of Obesity Medicine e-Weekly
ASBP started offering the weekly members-only e-newsletter more than two years ago after hearing feedback from members. Today marks the 150th edition of Obesity Medicine e-Weekly. Thank you for reading! Please continue to provide us with feedback about your ASBP membership needs by emailing membership@asbp.org.
 Deadline to submit an application to join the ASBP Board of Trustees is June 5 ASBP is accepting applications for the 2015-2016 Board of Trustees until June 5. Interested candidates must complete an application and submit it to ASBP ( email, fax, or mail). Available positions include:
- President-elect (two-year term)
- Vice president (one-year term)
- Secretary/treasurer (one-year term)
- Trustee (four positions available, each a two-year term)
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Featured Member
Get to know your fellow ASBP members! Each month, we feature an interview with an ASBP member to help you learn more about your obesity medicine colleagues. This month's featured member is Dr. SangAe Kim-Park. Dr. Kim-Park is the president of SangAe Kim-Park, MD, PC. She serves on the ASBP Membership Committee and supports the Obesity Treatment Foundation.
 Q&A with SangAe Kim-Park, MD, PhD
1. How long have you been working in obesity medicine, and how did you get started in obesity medicine? I have been working with obesity medicine almost 8 years. In my practice of family medicine and sleep medicine, I teach the importance of healthy choice diet and physical activities and good sleep in all my patients. A lot of problems come from non-refreshed sleep and overweight and obesity. I have two memorable successful patients with obesity who followed my instruction and lost weight significantly over the one year and were able to discontinue all medicine for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes. I was wondering why only two patients showed the evidence that my approach was right. I thought all other patients needed more effort to follow my instructions. After attending an ASBP conference in 2014, I realized that my approach was just the beginning of the obesity treatment. I needed to move forward actively to treat this chronic progressive disease.
2. What advice would you offer to clinicians who are new to the field of obesity medicine? You are very welcome to obesity medicine. Your interest in obesity medicine will not only help your current patients, but more importantly, it will help our society understand and prevent weight-related problems.
3. What excites you the most about the field of obesity medicine right now? Better understanding of multifaceted etiology, complex pathophysiology, and possible interdisciplinary approaches to taking care of patients with overweight or obesity are available.
4. What are your favorite ways to spend your time off? Playing with my grandsons, David and Phillip.
5. If someone were to write a biography about you in a few years, what do you think the title should be and why? "Today is the beginning of the rest of your life." It is because I really think that way.
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Foundation
Research Basics Workshop to be offered at Overcoming Obesity 2015
For the first time ever, the Obesity Treatment Foundation (OTF) is holding a Research Basics Workshop at Overcoming Obesity 2015. This interactive, half-day workshop is designed to help clinicians learn the basics of conducting practice-based research and publish the results. Throughout the afternoon, there will be opportunities to interact with presenters and ask questions about your own research. The Research Basics Workshop takes place Oct. 1, just prior to the Fall Obesity Summit, and is worth up to 4.25 hours of CME. Online registration is now available.
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Resources
 The Obesity Treatment Foundation (OTF) helps keep you up to date on current obesity research! Each week, OTF publishes a brief overview of three recent studies so you can be in the know, even during your busiest days. Click the titles below to view the full articles, and please consider supporting OTF so we can continue to provide you with updates on the latest research.
Ballesteros, M. N., et al. Nutrients, 2015.
There is much debate about the effects of dietary cholesterol and egg intake on the risk for heart disease in patients with diabetes. A study was conducted comparing isocaloric breakfasts containing either one egg or 40 grams of oatmeal per day for five weeks, followed by a three-week washout period and consumption of the alternate breakfast. The study found no differences in plasma glucose, lipids, liproprotein size or subfractions, insulin HbA1c, ApoB, oxidized LDL, or C-reactive protein. Consumption of the egg for breakfast did, however, lead to lower TNF-alpha and aspartate amino-transferase levels. These findings suggest that eggs may be consumed without detrimental changes to a number of metabolic biomarkers and may even reduce inflammation when compared to oatmeal intake.
Robinson, E., and Christiansen, P. Int J Obes (Lond), 2015.
Men and women typically find extremely high and low BMIs to be less attractive than those closer to the "normal" range. However, research has shown that different cultures have different preferences toward body weights, which may be explained by what they routinely see in their respective cultures. A study was conducted to examine how females rated their attraction to men with obesity after being exposed to men with obesity versus men with a healthy weight. Females in an online dating study were also evaluated for changes in attraction after having been exposed to obesity. The study found that visual exposure to men with obesity resulted in women finding a man with excess weight more physically attractive. Females who regularly socialize with heavier men had an altered visual perception of "normal" weight and greater attraction toward men who were overweight. Single women who date online are more likely to choose to date a man with excess weight instead of a man with a healthy weight after having been exposed to men with obesity. These findings suggest that body weight preferences are likely to be determined by learning and environmental input.
A national survey of public views about the classification of obesity as a disease
Puhl, R. M., and Liu, S. Obesity, 2015.
When the American Medical Association declared obesity as a disease in 2013, it sparked much debate within the health care community and among the public in general. In January 2014, a nationally representative survey was conducted to assess people's agreement with the 33 statements in support of and against obesity's disease classification. The survey found that regardless of sex, income, education, or health status, the majority of participants (51 percent) agreed with all statements in support of the disease classification of obesity, including views that it will help people gain access to obesity treatment. Survey results showed that 39.5 percent of participants agreed with all the statements against the disease classification, including views that it will increase over-reliance on medications or surgery to treat obesity (47.3 percent). Participants' attitudes were related to causal beliefs about obesity. The most support for disease classification came from African-Americans and the most opposition by individuals with higher weight stigma.
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Education
By Dr. William McCarthy, ASBP CME Program Director
When I first joined ASBP ten years ago, I immediately recognized the quality of the CME content and speakers. At that time there were approximately 250 physicians certified by the American Board of Bariatric Medicine (ABBM), and the specialty was often viewed as alternative or fringe medicine.
Over the past few years, we have seen an explosion in the specialty of obesity medicine; we have a more profound understanding of obesity itself as a disease state rather than as an undesirable physical trait associated with various physical maladies. ASBP's CME program has kept pace with this progression by offering more programs and learning opportunities focused on this specialty, especially in terms of clinically relevant applications as well as cutting-edge, evidence-based research impacting the field.
This fulfills the primary mission of ASBP, which is to educate and support practitioners of obesity medicine. The ASBP CME program has strived to meet the challenges of this new era of obesity medicine and, we look forward to continuing to offer excellence in education. Have content suggestions for upcoming conferences? Submit your suggestions to the CME department.
 All-new content planned for Overcoming Obesity 2015
Overcoming Obesity 2015 takes place in Washington, D.C., this fall. Reserve your spot today to ensure you don't miss out on a minute of this excellent educational and networking opportunity!
When: Sept. 30-Oct. 4
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Full Conference
30 CME | Sept. 30-Oct. 4 | RegisterIncludes both the Obesity Medicine Certification Review Course and the Fall Obesity Summit.
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Obesity Medicine Certification Review Course13 CME | Sept. 30-Oct. 1 | RegisterThis course addresses the topics related to obesity medicine about which physicians may be tested on the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM) certification exam.
- Research Basics Workshop
4.25 CME | Oct. 1 | Register
This is an interactive, half-day workshop to help clinicians learn the basics of conducting practice-based research and how to publish the results.
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Fall Obesity Summit17 CME | Oct. 2-4 | RegisterThis summit addresses topics related to current and emerging scientific research, evidence-based treatment approaches, technologies, and clinical and practical methods used by clinicians in the field of obesity medicine.
Refer a provider to an Obesity Basic Medical Treatment course
Another season of Obesity Basic Medical Treatment courses starts next month. This one-day introductory course teaches physicians and health care providers who are brand new to the field of obesity medicine about the basic approaches to obesity treatment. Do you know someone interested in getting involved in obesity medicine? Refer them to a course in their area!
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