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Explain the importance of healthy and balanced diets.
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Weight loss drugs have helped many people on their weight management journey, and now new research is showing that they may have more benefits. Eating a varied diet, prioritising whole foods and remembering what constitutes a ‘healthy weight’ however, is still important.
07 Jul 2025
The public is split over whether weight-loss injections should be offered on the NHS, with 37 per cent for and 32 per cent opposed.
26 Nov 2024
Over 200 clinicians are calling for an urgent review of obesity treatment services in England in response to an “unprecedented public demand” for new pharmaceutical therapies.
17 Oct 2024
NICE consults on proposals to roll out GLP-1 receptor agonist to critical target groups
08 Oct 2024
Semaglutide can produce weight loss and reduce waist size for at least four years, says new research.
06 Jun 2024
The Pharmacist's Defence Association says it cannot support new guidance for the online prescribing of GLP-1 receptor antagonists from Digital Clinical Excellence, because it conflicts with an expert report from the GPhC.
07 May 2024
We are all familiar with the sayings “trust your gut” and “follow your gut” but what is this intuitive value we have placed here? Training Matters explores why the gut has become known as the epicentre of health and how to maintain it.
25 Mar 2024
Nutrition, medicines and myths: evolution of pharmacy practice.
08 Dec 2023
Does the repurposing of incretin-based therapies as anti-obesity agents warrant all the hype? And can the NHS deliver such medications equitably, safely and sustainably, given the recent problems with shortages as demand soars?
04 Oct 2023
Helping overweight and obese customers to lose weight can change and save lives. Here's how pharmacy can help individuals make small lifestyle changes that are safe and sustainable
13 Sep 2023
In the first of a two-part feature, practice pharmacist Samantha Cudby and consultant dietitian Anne Holdoway look at the effects of malnutrition on key patient groups
25 Apr 2023
Obesity does not happen overnight but develops gradually over time as a result of lifestyle choices such as eating large amounts of processed or fast food high in fat and sugar. So what can be done?
13 Feb 2023
Understand why more research is needed to determine the overlap between medically unexplained symptoms and nutrient deficiencies.
19 May 2021
Plant-based diets are continuing to increase in popularity, but there are growing concerns that their mismanagement.
08 Jan 2021
Obesity has been moving up the Government’s agenda in recent years, but the UK population is still piling on the pounds.
13 Oct 2020
This team training learning module focuses on dietary supplements.
11 Dec 2015
