Obesity Care Week: Commit To Care!

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Obesity Care Week 2025 (#ObesityCareWeek) is here!

From March 3-7, 2025, Obesity Care Week is an annual public awareness effort to end weight stigma. It promotes education for a better world for people living with obesity. Also, World Obesity Day is March 4, 2025.

Our Salud America! health team is happy to serve as an Obesity Care Week Champion to help raise awareness.

“We need to continue to address the state of obesity care among Latinos and all people,” said Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, director of Salud America! and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio.

Salud America! research has found that many people face health issues due to the non-medical drivers of health, from poverty and support to affordable housing and transit. This contributes to higher rates of obesity. This, in turn, leads to higher burdens of diabetes, cancer, and other chronic health conditions.

Addressing the root causes, such as improving community access to healthy food and more physical activity, can help address obesity.

Three Big Actions for Obesity Care Week

This year, the Obesity Care Week team urges you to take three actions:

1. Sign the Pledge to Commit to Care

Make a personal commitment to support better obesity care by signing the pledge at obesitycareweek.org.

By pledging, you’re joining a global effort to:

• Raise awareness about the challenges of obesity as a chronic disease.
• Speak up for improved policies that expand access to effective, evidence-based care.
• Treat everyone with respect and compassion, free from stigma.
• Encourage meaningful conversations about the importance of health and well-being.

2. Take Action in the Action Center

This year, Obesity Care Week is providing the opportunity for people to encourage the new administration to commit to care by expanding comprehensive obesity coverage.

3. Share and Learn

Explore educational resources, toolkits, and shareable materials.

Use these to spark conversations about the importance of accessible, affordable, and compassionate obesity care and help raise awareness in your community.

“Please join us in supporting this annual awareness week to help change the way we care about people,” Ramirez said.

Obesity Care Week is led by Obesity Action Coalition, The Obesity Society, the STOP Obesity Alliance, the Obesity Medicine Association, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Sign-up for OCW Alerts or visit ObesityCareWeek.org. Use #ObesityCareWeek on social media.

Learn more about ways to reduce childhood obesity and reframe childhood obesity.

How Can You Create Healthy Environments for People in Your Community?

Healthy lifestyles are important for everyone.

Searching for ways to get physically active?

The CDC launched the Moving Matters campaign to engage people to be more physically active and have collaborated with Salud America! to spread the word.

At the community level, that starts with an environment that is conducive for physical activity.

How is the state of health in your community?

Find out by downloading a Salud America! Health Report Card for your town!

Enter your county name and get auto-generated local data with interactive maps and comparative gauges on several health indicators. This can help you visualize and explore local issues in education, housing, transportation, food, health, and more.

See how your county stacks up compared to the rest of your state and nation.

Then email the Report Card to local leaders to raise awareness, include the data in a presentation or grant proposal, or share it on social media to drive healthy change in your community!

Get your Health Report Card!

Editor’s Note: Image credit to the UConn Rudd Center Media Library.