On World Obesity Day 2022, Leeds Beckett University launched its new Obesity Institute. The Institute will bring together a wealth of knowledge and experience from across the whole university and work with partner organisations to improve the lives of people living with obesity.
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In this new documentary, OEN UK founding member, Professor Rachel Batterham and OEN UK Champion, Nadya Isack meet people living with obesity and leading experts (including OEN UK Trustee, Professor Sadaf Farooqi), to consider what needs to be done to take meaningful action to improve health outcomes for people living with obesity.
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OEN Trustees are delighted to announce Dame Jenni Murray as Patron of the Network at our Annual General Meeting 2022. In this post, Jenni shares why the OEN mission matters to her and how she hopes to see things change for people affected by obesity.
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Obesity Health Alliance have published their 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy laying out a long-term agenda for UK Government action which makes it possible for everyone to move towards attaining, sustaining and enjoying improved wellbeing and healthy weight.
Continue reading “Obesity Health Alliance Launches Healthy Weight Strategy”Professor Farooqi becomes a Royal Society Fellow
We are delighted to announce that OEN Steering Group member Professor Sadaf Farooqi has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her discoveries of fundamental mechanisms that control human energy homeostasis and their disruption in obesity.
Skinny Genes
It is commonly thought that being thin is down to choices – eating choices and activity choices. This has lead to thinness being associated with a kind of personal fortitude or moral superiority and overweight and obesity being associated with personal weakness and moral inferiority. But current scientific understanding does not support this position.
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In this post we continue the blog series marking the launch of the Obesity Empowerment Network Strategic Plan 2020-2023 in which we meet the individuals who developed it. This time we are speaking with Maggie Clinton, OEN UK Founding Member and Trustee, about why OEN UK is working to improve preventative and treatment strategies for obesity.
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On 4 March 2021, the government announced new specialised support to help those living with obesity to lose weight.
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World Obesity Day 2020 seems like a lifetime ago. The months in between have been especially difficult for people living with obesity. With World Obesity Day 2021 approaching on the 4th March, we want to draw your attention to the Global Obesity Forum Declaration on Obesity and COVID-19.
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Pinki Sahota is Emeritus Professor in Nutrition and Childhood Obesity at Leeds Beckett University. Pinki is a member of the Obesity Empowerment Network Steering Group and our Trustee for Communications and PR. We caught up with Pinki ahead of the launch of the new OEN UK Strategic Plan 2020-2023…
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