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Skip The Diet – Fill Up To Lose Weight

 As international scientists gather in London for a British Nutrition Foundation conference (BNF) on satiety today, Tuesday 18 June, a leading slimming organisation hails the dawn of a new era of hope for slimmers.

With 30 million people in the country already overweight or obese and the trend set to rise over the next decades, there is an urgent need to tackle obesity say researchers at Slimming World.

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People focus is the secret of Slimming World’s success

 

Slimming World, the UK’s leading weight loss organisation, is celebrating another success after being awarded Investors in People (IiP) status for the 5th consecutive time.

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Queen’s Birthday Honours for Slimming World founder!

Slimming World founder and Chairman, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, has been honoured with an OBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to the community in Derbyshire and to the field of weight management.

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Greatest Loser John's on track to lose himself!

Forty year old John Devonshire, from Llanrwst in Conwy, North Wales is the first to admit that the trauma of a devastating stroke that nearly killed him was the wake up call that he needed. Now, three years later having lost 16 stone John feels lucky to be able to reflect on the events that led to him joining his local Slimming World group and start his weight loss journey.

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Pills not a solution to obesity says Slimming World

Responding to news that the latest ‘anti-obesity wonder drug’ Alli is due to go on sale over the counter tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22, 2009), Slimming World Managing Director Caryl Richards says: “Doling out pills for weight loss is not a solution to obesity.

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Slimming World competition policy

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MR & MRS SLIMMING WORLD 2009: “Happy and Confident” after 20st loss

Years of struggling with being overweight have come to end for Katie and Mark Fairhead, from Wymondham in Norfolk as the couple celebrate losing nearly 20 stone between them to be crowned Mr and Mrs Slimming World 2009.

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Slimmers Hand Over Weighty Cheque!

While Slimming World’s members have been losing pounds (lbs) they’ve also managed to help charities to gain pounds (£s).

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1000s Take to the Streets to Launch Community Campaign to Beat Obesity

Thousands of people all over the UK are taking to the streets this Saturday, 21st February, to support the first ever ‘Let’s Beat Obesity Together’ campaign, launched by Slimming World, the UK’s largest weight loss organisation. The campaign aims to get whole communities together to help tackle the UK’s spiralling obesity crisis.

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Seven Secrets of Successful Slimmers

Every year millions of people make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Seventy five percent of the adult population makes weight loss their number one resolution in January, but by the end of the month many of them have already given up. What is it that makes some slimmers succeed while others fail?

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New eating plan makes weight loss Extra Easy

Obesity is one of the UK's most urgent health problems, and, in England, it's growing at 1.25 per cent each year. This means that by the end of 2009, another 675,000 people will be obese - that's 1,850 people every day becoming a statistic, and putting their long-term health at risk. Now Slimming World is marking its 40th anniversary by unveiling a brand new eating plan which promises to make losing weight easier than ever before.

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Free help for overweight children as study links child obesity to thyroid problems

The UK’s most advanced slimming group is inviting parents who are concerned about their child’s weight to bring them to their local Slimming World group for free - after a new study linked obesity in children to structural changes in the thyroid.

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Penny shuns gastric band to lose half her body weight

Just 18 months ago mum of four Penny Melly weighed 20 stone and suffered a catalogue of health problems. She was just weeks away from gastric band surgery. Then a leaflet through her door inviting her to join a local Slimming World group prompted her to have one last try at losing weight without surgery. Today (Tuesday, 11 November) after losing half her body weight Penny has been crowned Slimming World’s Woman of the Year 2008.

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Jack Mitchell, 18, loses over 7 stone and defies the bullies

Eighteen year old Jack Mitchell from Sunderland has been announced as the winner of Slimming World’s Young Slimmer of the Year 2008 after losing 7½ stones. Jack started gaining weight when was 10 years old, after the death of his beloved granddad. “I comfort ate and started to put on weight. Things got worse when I went to comprehensive school and the bullying began. I was taunted about my weight by pupils and a teacher.”

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Brian Semple -- Slimming World's Man of the Year 2008

Starting weight: 28st 8lb, Weight loss: 15st 2lbs, Consultant: Linda Booker, Rochester group, Kent

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Slimming club offers NHS lower cost obesity solution

Sir Derek Wanless’ report about NHS funding commissioned by the King’s Fund, reveals that rising numbers of obese and overweight men, women and children equate to rising costs to the NHS for treatment. Sir Derek says “obesity is the biggest single problem by a very long distance in terms of public health.”

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Want To Quit Smoking? Join a Slimming Club

As the 1st July smoking ban in England looms, many smokers thinking about quitting may also be worrying about putting on weight. But weight gain needn’t be an unwanted side effect of stopping smoking. Slimming World’s nutritionist Dr Jacquie Lavin explains why starting a healthy eating plan and joining a slimming group at the same time can really help smokers to stop and slim successfully.

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Thousands of young people join Slimming World to adopt a healthier lifestyle

When 12 year old Chris Bennington joined Slimming World just over a year ago, he weighed 11st 1½ lbs, the average weight of a British adult. He was bullied at school because he couldn’t keep up with the other boys and was withdrawn, quiet and shy.

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