{"id":24837,"date":"2024-10-15T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=24837"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:14:25","slug":"weight-loss-jabs-to-help-jobless-living-with-obesity-but-lets-not-forget-healthy-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/weight-loss-jabs-to-help-jobless-living-with-obesity-but-lets-not-forget-healthy-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss jabs to help jobless living with obesity … but let\u2019s not forget healthy living."},"content":{"rendered":"

Weight loss jabs to help jobless living with obesity return to work but let\u2019s not forget healthy living.<\/h2>\n

BANT supports Health Secretary, Wes Streeting when he says, \u201cpeople need to take \u201chealthy living more seriously\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

New plans to tackle obesity with a real-world trial of weight-loss injections impact on worklessness<\/strong> have been revealed, with the goal to get people back in employment and ease the financial burden on the health service.<\/p>\n

Whilst BANT remains cautious about the ethical and financial considerations to such an approach, we agree with Streeting that \u201cthe NHS can\u2019t be expected to always pick up the tab for unhealthy lifestyles\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

BANT maintains its position that diet and lifestyle has a critical role to play in managing the UK\u2019s obesity epidemic<\/strong>. Proposing potentially life-long weight-loss jabs without addressing the up-stream contributory factors of obesity will impact the efficacy of this proposal.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, BANT published its Manifesto<\/a> in which we call for policy to educate<\/strong> the nation about healthy eating<\/strong>, increased funding for prevention<\/strong>, legislation on food labelling<\/strong>, measures to tackle ultra-processed foods and drinks<\/strong> as one of the leading drivers of obesity and perhaps most critically, provision for nutrition practitioners within the NHS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

BANT recognises that drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro have a role to play in public health but in the words of Streeting \u201cas a country, we\u2019re eating more, eating less healthily and exercising less\u201d<\/strong>. This is the root cause of the UK\u2019s worsening health crisis.<\/p>\n

BANT will continue to advocate to treat the cause, and not just the effects of obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weight loss jabs to help jobless living with obesity return to work but let\u2019s not forget healthy living. BANT supports Health Secretary, Wes Streeting when he says, \u201cpeople need to take \u201chealthy living more seriously\u201d. New plans to tackle obesity with a real-world trial of weight-loss injections impact on worklessness have been revealed, with the goal to get people back in employment and ease the financial burden on the health service. Whilst BANT remains cautious about the ethical and financial considerations to such an approach, we agree with Streeting that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-24837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/24838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}