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Diet tracking: How much is enough to lose weight?

Written by | 14 Jun 2023

Keeping track of everything you eat and drink in a day is a tedious task that is tough to keep up with over time. Unfortunately, dutiful tracking is… read more.

Too few primary care doctors address obesity with their patients, highlighting need for weight loss tool

Written by | 28 May 2023

Too Few Primary Care Doctors Address Obesity With Their Patients, Highlighting Need for Weight Loss Tool After finding that few to no clinicians provided weight management care, researchers… read more.

Promoting lower-calorie options on delivery apps could help users select healthier options, randomized trials find

Written by | 22 May 2023

Simple initiatives to help people select lower-calorie options when ordering takeaways in delivery apps could help tackle the obesity epidemic, suggest three randomised trials being presented at this… read more.

New analysis of trial of semaglutide in adolescents shows it can reduce liver enzymes indicative of liver damage

Written by | 21 May 2023

A new substudy of the STEP TEENS trial presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2023, Dublin 17-20 May) shows that adolescents using semaglutide experienced significant… read more.

Established cardiovascular disease in people living with overweight or obesity associated with more illness, death and medical costs than obesity alone, UK study in over 420,000 adults finds

Written by | 18 May 2023

Adults at high cardiovascular risk and living with overweight or obesity [1] experience a higher number of cardiovascular events (such as heart attack and stroke), are at greater… read more.

Nursing student highlights important role school nurses can play in identifying and supporting young people with eating disorders

Written by | 15 Mar 2023

The vital role school nurses can play in addressing the rising number of eating disorders among children and young people has been outlined by a Kingston University student… read more.

Nearby food stores affect results after weight-loss surgery

Written by | 12 Mar 2023

Being able to take a quick walk to a nearby food retail store may be a significant factor in long-term weight loss after bariatric surgery, new research suggests…. read more.

Latest UK data shows rising age, rates of obesity and comorbidity in surgical patients requiring anaesthesia, increasing the pressure on the already overloaded NHS

Written by | 5 Mar 2023

Snapshot survey data from the 7th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (NAP7) published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) reveals an extremely worrying picture… read more.

Spike in obesity among pre-schoolers during pandemic

Written by | 6 Feb 2023

A new study, published in the European Journal of Public Health based on data from 25,049 children aged three to five, shows an increase in obesity during the COVID-19… read more.

UK soft drink taxes associated with decreased obesity in girls

Written by | 30 Jan 2023

The implementation of the two-tier soft drinks industry levy in the UK in 2018 was associated with an 8% reduction in obesity among 10-11 year old girls, with… read more.

Doctors give ineffective weight loss advice to patients with obesity

Written by | 16 Dec 2022

A new research study published today in Family Practice, published by Oxford University Press, finds that when doctors tell patients living with obesity to lose weight the guidance they give is… read more.

Sedentary lifestyle and sugary diet more detrimental to men

Written by | 2 Nov 2022

A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine is the first evidence in humans that short-term lifestyle changes can disrupt the response to insulin of… read more.

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