Health Awareness
Weight Management 2019
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Type 2 diabetes remission ‘empowers’ people
Diabetes diagnoses have more than doubled over the last 20 years, with more than 4.7 million people living with diabetes in the UK. 90% of these people have Type 2 diabetes, a condition which is linked with obesity and poor nutrition. This has traditionally been seen as a life-long, irreversible condition. However, recent studies using...
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Time to introduce enforceable policies to change the food environment
In the vast majority of cases, being overweight or obese is not an intentional choice, but a natural consequence of our obesogenic world. Relentless marketing and the availability of processed food, takeaways and huge portions all contribute towards this. So, what can a cash-strapped government do on a macro-level to get the biggest impact for...
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Going digital improves access and support for patients
Wearable tech devices and apps are allowing more thorough and frequent patient access to healthy lifestyle advice, with great success already being seen. Diabetes and its complications costs over £10 billion every year to treat and one in six patients in hospital has diabetes. Around nine out of ten people with diabetes have Type 2,...
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Harry’s story: “I’ve gone from a waist 42 to a 28”
Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is designed to stop or delay onset of Type 2 diabetes through a range of personalised lifestyle interventions. This includes education on lifestyle choices, advice on how to reduce weight through healthier eating and motivations to move with bespoke physical activity programmes. From August this year, a digital version...
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Time to end the stigma of obesity, stop judging and start helping
The NHS currently spends £1m every hour treating diabetes, a condition strongly linked with obesity. Additionally, there is strong evidence emerging that obesity is also a major, preventable risk factor for a variety of cancers. But, stigma is one of the greatest barriers to overcoming obesity. Time to end the stigma of obesity, stop judging...
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Research drives insight to tackle childhood obesity
Research helps consumers, policy makers and healthcare professionals turn the tide on childhood obesity. The causes of childhood obesity are complex, with genetics, culture, environmental, and socio-economic factors all playing their role. “It requires a concerted effort on behalf of all of us – the food industry, parents, teachers and policy makers – to support...
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Specialist approach results in successful weight management
People living with obesity need differing levels of support and nutritional advice. Weight management is complex and people living with obesity need differing levels of support at varying times. In the UK, tiered classification of weight management support is used. Tier 3 is best described as a multifaceted specialist weight management service. A 2014 Public...
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What can you eat when you have Type 2 diabetes?
One of your first questions if diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes is likely to be, ‘What can I eat?’ With so much to take in at once it can be hard to know what to do, you’ll probably hear myths about what foods you should and shouldn’t eat. Here, we will try to dispel common...
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Changing the path for Type 2 diabetes
Coaching could give people the right help at the right time to make the healthy lifestyle choices that count. Could this be a game changer for type 2 diabetes? A diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes can leave people feeling guilty and ashamed. The condition is often unfairly associated with an inactive, gluttonous lifestyle and this...
