News and Opinion
There are stories relating to obesity breaking around the world every day. The stories below are those where journalists haver sought NOF opnion/quotes or summaries of research on which NOF may have a view. Where possible the source of the stories are identified by the newspaper banner or a URL in red.
NOF Opinion will always be identified in italics.
Going to the gym! No. Buy a bikini
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 June 2011
The weight loss franchise Lighter Lighter Life believes [!] women buy bikinis a size too small, to incentivise them to lose weight for the summer hols. 70% go on diets to look better on the beach.
In interviews broadcast widely on local radio stations across the UK, Professor David Haslam,. Chair of NOF, challenged his bikini clad audience that brief periods of weight loss have no benefit but that repeated weight gain has risk attached.