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Healthy Weight HIT

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

Study shows children’s physical activity levels fell below national guidelines in wake of pandemic

Study shows children’s physical activity levels fell below national guidelines in wake of pandemic

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...

Children could find it easier to reach a healthier weight if their parents are addressing their own weight

Children could find it easier to reach a healthier weight if their parents are addressing their own weight

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...

Just three percent of adults with recording of overweight or obesity in primary care in England referred to weight management programmes

Just three percent of adults with recording of overweight or obesity in primary care in England referred to weight management programmes

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...

Childhood obesity increases risk of type 1 diabetes

Childhood obesity increases risk of type 1 diabetes

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...

TfL's junk food advertising restrictions linked to reductions in high fat, salt and sugar product purchases

TfL's junk food advertising restrictions linked to reductions in high fat, salt and sugar product purchases

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...

New Health Integration Team will focus on preventing and treating obesity

New Health Integration Team will focus on preventing and treating obesity

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...

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