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Articles tagged with: Obesity
MPs must shed the stigma around weight loss jabs – they’ve helped me drop six stone
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By Alec Shelbrooke MP
MPs must shed the stigma around weight loss jabs – they’ve helped me drop six stone
Since taking weight loss medication, I have lost six stone – so far – reaching my first goal of no longer being clinically obese. I know that I am not alone amongst my colleagues in taking this kind of drug, and yet there is still such a stigma around it.
Anti-obesity medications aren’t the full solution, say BANT Partner content
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Anti-obesity medications aren’t the full solution, say BANT
The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM), The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) and the College of Medicine and Integrated Health (CoM) urge policy makers, health care leaders and regulatory bodies to ensure that anti-obesity medications (AOMs) are used safely, effectively and sustainably
Half of UK adults say they've put off losing weight Partner content
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By Slimming World
Half of UK adults say they've put off losing weight
A new survey has found that half of UK adults (50 per cent) have put off trying to lose weight, with many saying that the delay has impacted their health and caused them to gain even more weight. The UK’s leading weight-management organisation, Slimming World, warns that weight loss injections are not the silver bullet for success this January.
Weight loss injections are not a silver bullet Partner content
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By Slimming World
Weight loss injections are not a silver bullet
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledges to cut down on “wasteful spending” within public services, weight management expert Margaret Miles-Bramwell OBE, founder and chair of Slimming World, is calling for a review of spending on unnecessary weight loss medication.
30 years of experience on healthy food policy tells us government must be bolder
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By Dr Dolly van Tulleken
30 years of experience on healthy food policy tells us government must be bolder
Henry Dimbleby and I have been working closely with politicians from across the political spectrum for years to progress food-related health policies.
Are weight loss drugs really 'miracle' medicines?
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By Harriet Symonds
Are weight loss drugs really 'miracle' medicines?
With new weight-loss drugs hailed as ‘miracle’ medicines, Harriet Symonds explores whether their increasing popularity should be treated with more caution
Diet fad or fact? New survey reveals why people struggle to lose weight and keep it off Partner content
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By Slimming World
Diet fad or fact? New survey reveals why people struggle to lose weight and keep it off
As a new survey finds more than half of UK adults have attempted a fad diet, the UK and Ireland’s largest weight loss organisation is calling on the government to support the option of evidence-based and effective lifestyle-based weight loss programmes working in partnership with the NHS.
Doctor phobia: supporting the millions of people unhappy with their weight who are too scared to go to the doctor Partner content
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By Slimming World
Doctor phobia: supporting the millions of people unhappy with their weight who are too scared to go to the doctor
As Wes Streeting pledges billions to GPs to ‘fix the front door’ of the NHS, weight management experts are urging the Health Secretary to support the millions of people who are too scared to go to the doctor because they fear being judged.
Urgent need to prioritise people living with obesity Partner content
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By Slimming World
Urgent need to prioritise people living with obesity
Slimming World, the largest weight management organisation in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has written to Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to lend its support to the Minister’s commitment to rebuild the NHS.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Act against the drivers of obesity and rid Britain of its label as ‘the fat man of Europe!’
BANT 2024 Election Manifesto – A call for change!
Five-point manifesto to support people and families living with obesity Partner content
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By Slimming World
Five-point manifesto to support people and families living with obesity
As the General Election campaigning gathers pace, the UK and Ireland’s largest weight loss organisation, Slimming World, is calling on the next government to commit to helping more people living with obesity
The Victoria Atkins interview: 'The NHS belongs to us all, not just the junior doctors committee'
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By Tali Fraser
The Victoria Atkins interview: 'The NHS belongs to us all, not just the junior doctors committee'
Born into a political family, Victoria Atkins was seemingly destined to end up in government. But, as the Health Secretary tells Tali Fraser, her journey has not been straightforward – and nor are the issues she’s attempting to tackle. Photography by David Bebber
Can drugs really cure the obesity epidemic? Partner content
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By Slimming World
Can drugs really cure the obesity epidemic?
In a significant change of direction, the Government has switched its obesity strategy to a £40 million drug pilot. Carolyn Pallister, Registered Dietitian and Head of Nutrition, Research and Health from the UK's leading weight loss organisation Slimming World, looks at what this means for people who need support to lose weight.
In Brief: Obesity
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By Grant Hill-Cawthorne
In Brief: Obesity
In an occasional series, staff from Parliament’s libraries give The House choice nuggets from the archives. This week, Professor Grant Hill-Cawthorne, House of Commons librarian and managing director of research and information, looks at the UK’s obesity problem
Slimming World parliamentary drop-in showcases evidence-based approach to healthy weight loss Partner content
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By Slimming World
Slimming World parliamentary drop-in showcases evidence-based approach to healthy weight loss
Slimming World, the UK and Ireland’s most advanced and effective weight management programme, recently held a parliamentary drop-in, supported by the APPG on Obesity, highlighting how Slimming World members are able to adopt healthy lifestyles in line with key government priorities around diet, the NHS, economic growth and harder to reach communities.
Obesity is damaging the nation’s health and wealth
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By Maggie Throup MP
Obesity is damaging the nation’s health and wealth
Successive governments have sought to reduce obesity through 14 strategies over 30 years – all of which have failed to fix the broken food system.
5 years on from the introduction of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy: what do we have to show for it? Partner content
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By British Heart Foundation
5 years on from the introduction of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy: what do we have to show for it?
In the midst of a crisis facing our health service, with record waits for operations, long delays in A&E and strikes not seen in generations, it could be easy for public health interventions to take a back seat. But the difference interventions such as the Soft Drinks Industry Levy can make are significant.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Latest figures show an alarming rise in T2DM in the under 40’s and highlight a failing food industry.
Body weight, inactivity, and social deprivation amongst the contributing factors.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Prevention is crucial, but the nation’s health crisis needs innovation not just investment.
Funding for prevention should reflect the scale of the problem.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT supports Dimbleby’s protest at government’s “insane” inaction against obesity
Junk food culture mean Brits eat more ultra-processed than real food.
Public health policy should return to the top of Steve Barclay’s priority list
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By Adam Briggs
Public health policy should return to the top of Steve Barclay’s priority list
After a gap of less than eight weeks, Steve Barclay returned to the Department of Health and Social Care to find NHS waiting lists of more than 7m, a social care system on its knees, record workforce shortages, and the first signs of a flu season arriving in hospitals.
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By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
BANT calls for Government to improve, not remove ‘Obesity Strategy’
Latest sign that Truss has no appetite for health policies
Calories on menus are causing more harm than good
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By Jacob Young MP
Calories on menus are causing more harm than good
Dining out in a restaurant should be one of life’s little treats, and for most of us it is.
Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health
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By Graham MacGregor CBE
Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health
Earlier this year, evidence emerged from South Africa that mandatory salt targets resulted in a huge fall in salt intake, even amongst the most deprived groups.