Healthy Weight HIT News

Family and media pressure to lose weight in adolescence linked to how people value themselves almost two decades later

  • 16th April 2024
People who as teenagers felt pressure to lose weight from family or from the media,…

Co-designing health services – what should commissioners consider?

  • 13th March 2024
Building relationships, creating supportive organisational cultures and developing the evidence base are key considerations for…

International Women's Day 2024: Shining a spotlight on women’s health

  • 8th March 2024
March 2, 2024, saw another amazing staging of Bristol’s Women’s Voice’s annual International Women’s Day…

Supporting childbearing women to maintain a healthy weight could reduce the risk of pregnancy complications, study finds

  • 29th January 2024
Supporting women of childbearing age to have a healthy weight could reduce the risk…

Diet in childhood linked to blood vessel damage in teenage years

  • 10th January 2024
Diets high in calories, fat and sugar in childhood can cause damage to blood vessel…

Light physical activity shows great promise in reversing childhood obesity caused by being sedentary

  • 18th December 2023
Increased sedentary time from childhood through young adulthood caused increased body fat and abdominal fat…

Type 2 diabetes remission diet impacts on metabolic health

  • 26th October 2023
People with type 2 diabetes who took part in a diet-assisted weight loss trial,…

Few eligible patients get access to publicly funded weight management programmes in England

  • 28th September 2023
Of the more than 1.8 million adults in England with a recorded diagnosis of being…

NHS policies on patient's weight and access to hip replacement surgery are inappropriate, study finds

  • 13th June 2023
Weight and body mass index (BMI) policies introduced by NHS commissioning groups in England are…

Study shows children’s inactivity remains an issue in wake of pandemic

  • 27th April 2023
New research has revealed children’s physical activity in the UK has largely returned to…

Healthy Weight HIT 2022-23

  • 1st April 2023
Reducing inequalities in weight management pathways and practice People who suffer from poor mental health…