Reading Time: 3 minutes Diabetes is a subject which continues to pop up frequently in the news. It’s no secret that diabetes is hugely linked to obesity, and figures
Reading Time: 2 minutes An alarming story from the BBC was published today. The headline ‘My doctor flew off when cosmetic surgery went wrong’ sounds dramatic and scary, but
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we help people make decisions about whether or not they should have weight loss surgery we are doing so with a long term perspective.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps you read in the news today about Simon Cowell losing a lot of weight. It was a positive story about how he’d made changes
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a really good article from the BBC. They quote a report by psychologists that states that obesity does not reflect a lack of willpower.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The stories in the papers today merely repeat what we already knew, that as our weight increases, type 2 diabetes increases. Furthermore, this increase in
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday saw a debate on Good Morning Britain where Piers Morgan and Danni Levy advocated for fat-shaming as the cure for obesity. The conversation continued
Reading Time: 2 minutes The truth is yes, the higher your BMI, the higher your surgical risk. In fact, it is a greater weight that increases risk, but of
Reading Time: 2 minutes Every week we meet new people in clinic who are embarrassed or ashamed about their weight. Very often this can be traced back to the