E59: Weight loss drugs, behaviour change and weight management strategies

Dr Claire Madigan (Senior research associate with CLIMB: The Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour) talks to host Martin Foster about weight loss, the new ‘magic pill’, exercise, what can be done to help people lose weight effectively and healthily without doing more harm than good as well as what needs to be put in place to help lower obesity rates in the UKTimestamps 00:00 - 02:30 - Introductions to guest, background in weight management, PHD and previous work02:31 - 11:23 - The weight loss ‘magic pill’ has it finally arrived?11:24 - 15:28 - Tier 1,2,3,4 and how behaviour change is important to each tier15:29 - 19:57 - Is there a standard model for behaviour change or is it individualised?19:58 - 23:41 - Nutrition, social support and diet, but is exercise the missing ingredient? 23:42 - 25:14 - What does the drug actually do? 25:15 - 27:12 - The starting point of weight loss is nutrition27:13 - 35:40 - How do we stop this becoming an issue?35:41 - 39:10 - What can we do to assist with treatment and prevention of obesity?39:11 - 41:57 - How can we change readily available food to assist with children’s nutrition41:58 - 45:33 - Recap on episode45:34 - 47:04 - Thank you, links and goodbyes  

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