Obesity Blog Posts

• Behavioural weight-loss interventions can be effective for people with serious mental illness, says new RCT

  28 Jun 2013

  • Lisa Burscheidt

  
• Healthy Active Lives (HeAL): tackling premature death in young people with psychosis

  19 Jun 2013

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Are you making the most of your National Elf Service?

  08 Feb 2013

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Level of learning disability, gender and serum triglyceride levels found to be predictive of BMI in people with co-existing mental illness

  23 Jan 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Non-pharmacological interventions can help prevent and reduce weight gain in people who take antipsychotics

  18 Dec 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Review suggests a relationship between obesity and dental caries

  21 Nov 2012

  • Derek Richards

  
• Losing weight on antipsychotics. New systematic review looks at diet and exercise

  07 Aug 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Adolescents with learning disabilities had low physical fitness and high prevalence of obesity

  12 Jun 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Lifestyle education can help people with diabetes and schizophrenia lose weight, according to new systematic review

  03 Apr 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• US study finds high levels of obesity in women with learning disability, Down syndrome, and milder learning disability

  07 Dec 2011

  • John Northfield