Professor Dame Sally Davies, the country’s former chief medical officer doesn’t seem to mind the possibility of offending anyone because her higher good is the health of the nation and protecting/saving the NHS. She blames squarely the country’s high Covid 19 death toll on the obesity crisis and ‘a structural environment’ that enables junk food […]
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That’s the overwhelming majority view of people who look back after their transformations, if they haven’t given up, lost heart or never achieved what they’ve set out to do in the first place. The trouble is getting started in the first place can be so difficult. What is the trigger that needs to be set
Is how you look a bonus to how you feel when you change your lifestyle? Read More »
There is more uncertainty in the mix (on top of the latest lockdown) because what happens in the world’s largest economy impacts us. I get it. It’s impossible not to be affected by our environment. Events unfold and we sometimes feel our minds are on overload. The thoughts can go round in a loop where
Election result in USA disputed – how does this impact our health – and our waistlines? Read More »
When I saw this headline, my thoughts jumped to a regime run by a dictator forcing families to ensure their children stay thin or suffer the consequences. I imagined small children getting weighed and measured routinely and force fed a diet of bland food with no sweets or treats – or suffer the consequences! Chinese
China to contain childhood obesity. Aren’t you grateful we live in a democracy! Read More »
What is your understanding of a disease, anyway? According to AACE, https://www.aace.com/disease-and-conditions/nutrition-and-obesity , obesity (and I believe overweight) is a disease and preventable and treatable condition which simply means a person has too much body fat. But calling it a disease, is like saying you can catch it, become infected and it is out of
Is obesity a disease? If that is true does it give away your power? Read More »
Celebrities and everyday folk show off their newly svelte figures and bods in the tabloids, often saying how hard it was. They had to give up their favourite foods. They had to rely on willpower because – as an Indian guy recently quoted in The Times of India – (did you know I lived in
Do you know anyone who has lost weight and kept it off for six months or more? Read More »
Last week I talked about how we are immune to recognising overweight in both ourselves and others. But this isn’t true for our leader and Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. I think he meant to shock when he said he was ‘too fat’. He is one of the majority. He is not only overweight but clinically
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Hi First, sorry for my radio silence last week. I was actually really unwell. So, that happens even to people who watch their diets very closely, eat a lot of healthy stuff and minimise the unhelpful stuff. Lesson learned. You can have too much of a good thing. In my case it was raw vegetables!
Is fast weight loss dangerous or has the latest advice changed? Read More »
“Food firms must be part of obesity fight.” Actually – you may have just switched off or even tried to ignore it – but these experts in the Times do agree (on one thing at least!) that food firms must be part of the obesity fight. Everyone knows the rates of coronavirus will increase as
Sunday Times’ India Knight says, ‘Target minds not stomachs to beat obesity’ India Knight is someone who confesses to having struggled with her own weight. In her Sunday Times column this week she describes the measures as outlined by the government such as a ban on supermarket promotions of junk food and removal of chocolate
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I am sure you have all seen the news on the potentially deadly risks of being overweight amid the Covid outbreak, which is thankfully coming under control it seems. According to the Covid Symptom Study app, of the people admitted to ICU with COVID-19 in the UK, 73% were overweight or obese, and research in
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