Healthy Weight HIT
The Healthy Weight HIT focuses on preventing and treating obesity. It brings together experts from across the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire region including the public, researchers, public health professionals and clinicians. The HIT aims to improve how research, policy and practice interconnect, to ultimately help re-shape the unhealthy environments that we live in.
Latest news and events
16 May 2022
New research has revealed children’s physical activity levels in the UK were significantly lower by the time the COVID-19 pandemic public lockdown restrictions were lifted. The study, led by the University of Bristol, found that by the end of 2021 li...
9 May 2022
New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands (4-7 May), has found that many parents attending commercial weight management programmes would be happy for their child, if overweight, to also receive support...
7 May 2022
New University of Bristol-led research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands (4-7 May), has found that just three per cent of adults with a recording of overweight or obesity in England are referred to weight m...
28 April 2022
Being overweight in childhood increases the risk of developing type 1 diabetes in later life, according to the findings of a new study that analysed genetic data on over 400,000 individuals. The study, co-led by researchers from the Universities of Bristo...
17 February 2022
Restricting the outdoor advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) foods and drinks across the Transport for London (TfL) network is estimated to have significantly decreased the average amount of calories purchased by households every week from these...
7 December 2021
A new Health Integration Team (HIT) was approved by Bristol Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre’s Research & Innovation Steering Group in November 2021. It will be the first new HIT to launch since the pandemic began. The HIT will focus on...
