Obesity - the single biggest preventable cause of cancer after smoking
Most people are unaware that obesity is the second biggest preventable cause of cancer. New research...
Patients 'welcome' weight loss interventions from their GP, study shows
GPs opportunistically raising the issue of weight loss and offering referral to weight management pr...
'Weak' childhood obesity strategy criticised by GPs
The highly-anticipated childhood obesity strategy has come under fire from the BMA and RCGP, who hav...
GPC 'totally opposed' to proposed QOF target for recording BMI of all adult patients
The GPC has expressed its 'total opposition' to a QOF indicator proposed by NICE for the 2017 contra...
Advising patients on a healthy diet
In light of a National Obesity Forum (NOF) report on reversing obesity, Professor David Haslam and D...
GP obesity expert defends advice to 'eat fat to get thin'
A GP obesity expert has urged the profession not to dismiss controversial advice that obese patients...
Obesity map reveals soaring BMI in parts of England
Patients in London are proportionally less likely than those from other areas of the country to be o...
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