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	Advocacy Updates

Obesity is a major epidemic but it receives very little attention from federal, state and local governments or the health care industry. Why? The answer is the lack of people like you writing, calling and demanding programs for research, prevention, treatment, discrimination and consumer protection.

Action Alerts

Your are an important part in creating positive changes regarding obesity.

The AOA will help you to become involved by:

Monitoring changes in Congress and federal agencies.
Initiating Action Alerts to inform you on new laws being proposed or old laws being amended that affect the lives of persons with obesity.

Hot Issues

Voice your comments and concerns to policy makers today. Your action is urgently needed on these issues:

The OPERATE Project.

Read the AOA's most recent statement, comment or letter of advocacy:

Statement of the American Obesity Association before the
the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee Review of Bariatric Surgery

Statement of the American Obesity Association before the
Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives

Letter to Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner
Mark McClellan: Comments on the Secretary's Roundtable on Obesity / Nutrition

Find out more about the Secretary's Roundtable on Obesity / Nutrition by downloading a summary document from the FDA web site.

Letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson: Request to Reject Petition to Withdraw Sibutramine

AOA's Comments to Lobby the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) to Lead the Managed Care Industry in Addressing the Epidemic of Obesity in the United States.

For more information on how to take action, read the AOA's Contacting Congress web page.

AOA Advocacy
	The AOA is active on various issues. Access archived issues of the AOA E-newsletter and read about our recent work. View the AOA Advocacy Timeline and read about some of our past advocacy work.