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Compassion must start today within our own head, heart, health, home, and in humanity. According to Merrill Littleberry, LCSW, LCDC, CCM, ACE-CPT, a nationally-acclaimed health psychologist who spoke last month at OAC's virtual Convention, that level of compassion will help us build resiliency in our lives through our toughest challenges. As summer slowly starts coming to a close, we wanted to drop those words here as a good reminder. In every season, remember to have compassion toward yourself no matter your weight, size or health status. You are deserving of respect and care, always.
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 | GET YOUR FREE COPY OF OAC'S LIVING WELL GUIDE! If you're living with obesity or know someone who is, you know firsthand the impact that weight can have on health. That's why we created the Living Well Guide: a FREE resource you can use while navigating your health journey and building a lifestyle that supports it. Click HERE for the PDF download and HERE to order a print copy at no charge to you. | | |
JOIN THE FIGHT. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. SPREAD THE WORD. STOP WEIGHT BIAS! Our words and actions matter. Weight shouldn't dictate the way people are treated. Now you can support the movement to Stop Weight Bias by shopping at the Official Stop Weight Bias Store! A portion of the proceeds from each purchase benefits OAC's efforts to build a better world, free of weight bias, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. There are a selection of shirts, tote bags and mugs that showcase your support for the campaign. GET YOURS TODAY! |  | | |
 | ADVOCACY WIN! GA ADDS BARIATRIC SURGERY COVERAGE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES Great news for Georgia! The state has finally added back bariatric surgery coverage for GA employees, a pool of about 500,000 people including school teachers. The win comes after several years of hard work from OAC and other patient advocates. We want to thank GA House Rep. Katie Dempsey for championing this benefit, all the OAC members who helped, the ASMBS Georgia Chapter, and Ethicon. |  | GLOBAL OBESITY PATIENT ALLIENCE (GOPA) GROWS STRONGER As a member of the Global Obesity Patient Alliance, the OAC is excited to share that GOPA has recently added new groups from Mexico, Brazil and the U.S. (OCEANS Lifestyles), with an emerging group in Kuwait. The Alliance is formed from patient organizations around the world to ignite and inspire global change for people living with obesity. LEARN MORE |  | ADVOCATES WANTED! The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (TROA) would help thousands of seniors access obesity care, making your life safer and healthier. To help us pass TROA, legislators need to hear directly from real people! So, we're putting together a video for the Obesity Care Now Campaign and looking to highlight the real human story of what it means to live with obesity and how this legislation would change your life. If you're interested in being part of the campaign and are a Medicare recipient, please email us with your story at [email protected]. |  | OAC-TV HOSTS SPECIAL SEGMENT FOR STOP WEIGHT BIAS CAMPAIGN On August 12th, OAC-TV hosted a special segment with exciting announcements about our Stop Weight Bias Campaign. It featured real stories about weight bias, gave some progress on the campaign since it launched in January, and brought on a few special guests who participated in the PSAs we aired nationwide. Didn't catch the segment? WATCH NOW | |  |  | The OAC is still taking in all the positive comments and feedback from YWM2021-VIRTUAL, our 10th Annual Convention that we hosted online in July. For those who still haven't attended a Convention before, whether in-person or virtual, we thought we'd catch up with an OAC member who has been to all 10 meetings and hasn't missed a beat! Her name is Diana Lyn and she's already saving the date for YWM2022 in Las Vegas. READ MORE | | CELEBRATING NATIONAL NONPROFIT DAY: RECOGNIZING WHAT WE'VE DONE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS August 17th was National Nonprofit Day, a day for recognizing the efforts that charities put into improving their communities. One of the ways OAC celebrated National Nonprofit Day was by looking back at some of our proudest accomplishments since we started in 2005. TAKE A LOOK! |  | | |  | USE PEOPLE-FIRST LANGUAGE People-First Language for obesity is a way of speaking and writing that separates a person from their disease. An example is saying, "She has obesity" instead of "She is obese." By using this style of language, we can further eradicate weight bias and stigma. LEARN MORE | | | OAC WELCOMES MELLICELL TO CHAIRMAN'S COUNCIL The OAC is proud to welcome Mellicell as a new member of our Chairman's Council. Mellicell recently joined the Council at the Patron level and is excited to help support the work of OAC and patients. Mellicell is a biotechnology company founded in 2020 to cure obesity and type 2 diabetes. They use proprietary technology to recreate human fat cells and test therapies. READ MORE
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