“He consults with several organizations on obesity issues including Allergan Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Arena Pharmaceuticals, and Orexigen Therapeutics.” Downey also served as the director of the Washington office of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, where he organized major expansions of Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery in” National Coverage Determination…” He created the first series of conferences on obesity and public policy., collaborated with the Federal Trade Commission Partnership for Healthy Weight Management on efforts to control weight-loss fraud, and led efforts to create ‘The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 2001.” Downey’s success in changing Internal Revenue Service policies to allow taxpayers to deduct costs of obesity treatments as a medical deduction and in expanding National Institutes of Health research funding on obesity. This ultimately resulted in both political parties holding forums on future obesity policy, at their respective 2008 national conventions.” Downey’s many accomplishments are his successful efforts to have the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration recognize obesity as a disease, and his work to have obesity elevated in both Democratic and Republican Party platforms. Downey, former Executive Vice President of The Obesity Society and Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Obesity Association, “dedicated more than 10 years to driving awareness, support and actionable change to policies affecting obesity in America. government, and apparently, Morgan Downey, J.D. The war against obesity ramped up to what sociologist Abigail Saguy referred to as a moral panic, from the late 1990s on. HAES® and the war against obesity responded increasingly to each other by the 21st century. Previously posted on the Health At Every Size® Blog and reposted here with author permission. Urn:lcp:obesitymythwhyam00camp:epub:01a9dad0-0cfc-416f-b849-6c643bde5db0 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier obesitymythwhyam00camp Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9d539s4t Invoice 11 Isbn 9781592400669ġ592400663 Lccn 2004047437 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL8866332M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:46:16 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1111521 Boxid_2 BWB220140903 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier

The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos