Why it is wrong to label obesity as lazy and people fat shamed?

Obesity can be attributed to many things, from metabolism to hormones but the true underlying issue is our basic human instinct to eat.

No longer do we have to fight our way to a meal, being either predator or prey. 

Supermarkets have replaced our food sources but have not suppressed our innate drive to eat. 

In our most recent Lipotrim UK blog we have discussed these diet issues and why it is instead lazy to perpetuate the mantra "eat less and exercise more".

With a different approach, taking full consideration to the fact that 40 million UK adults can't just be lazy, we can tackle obesity properly.

Please click here to read the full Lipotrim blog post: 

LAZY? FAT SHAMING WON’T GET WEIGHT LOSS RESULTS.

Reducing the covid19 death risk - the role of rapid weight loss

The coronavirus has caused massive disruption throughout 2020.

We are finally seeing a slow return to a new normal, however, covid19 is still killing many people in the UK and worldwide.

The long-term effects of this pandemic are unknown but emerging coronavirus data is now painting a stark picture for those who are infected....


If you are male, type 2 diabetic and are from a BAME demographic then you are at a much greater risk of severe outcomes from a covid19 infection.

The death rate for these individuals is much higher than the average death rate for the whole population and in this blog we look into these figures, postulate why and look at what can be done.

Read the full blog by clicking here...

Understand keto diets and you won’t have any need to chase a superfood again

Are keto diets safe?

High fat, low carb keto diets have been slammed by diet experts recently but why?

Is the weight loss not a healthy weight loss?

Do we need to eat carbohydrates? 

Is it ketosis that is to blame?

In this article Lipotrim uses the likes of cows, kale, bananas and even Shakespeare to explain the differences between healthy and less than healthy ketosis and keto diets.

Read the full article here:  https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/keto-diet/

Christmas wishes from Lipotrim

Another year is nearly over and we hope 2019 has been good to you.

We hope you have managed to lose your excess weight and are happily maintaining it.

If you are yet to use Lipotrim and are thinking about your 2020 New Year Resolution....

Weight loss is not always easy. 

Lipotrim can truly help reverse this dieting issue and we also understand the difficulties when trying to keep the weight off.

Rest assured, we at Lipotrim are here to support you now and in the future......

0800 413 735 UK (Freephone)

015255636 Ireland (local rate)

lipotrim@lipotrim.co.uk

www.lipotrim.co.uk 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

From everyone at Lipotrim

Thinking more can help you lose weight - food for thought

THINK ABOUT THIS – BRAIN VS PHYSICAL EXERCISE?

This is the title of the most recent Lipotrim blog post which explores the effect of thinking on our weight. This may sound some crazy thinking but there is evidence to suggest thinking burns many calories. Exercising your brain can indeed help with weight loss.

The Lipotrim blog explores more than just thinking more. 

The following health-related topics are covered too, drawing this concept together:

• How many calories does it take to be human?
• The role of exercise in weight loss.
• How many calories does the brain burn when exercised ie thinking more?
• What are the difficulties facing us when “thinking more” as an aid to weight loss?
• Sugar swaps.
• Keto dieting.
• Very Low Calorie Diets.

We hope you love our latest Lipotrim blog. Our Lipotrim team are available to answer an questions and offer support with your weight management. 

READ THE LIPOTRIM BLOG POST BY CLICKING HERE

Why is BMI still used?

What are the advantages of using BMI?

BMI is constantly under-fire from critics, many proposing the Hip-to-Waist ratio as a better means of assessing obesity and excess weight. Put a BMI chart up, however, and we are ALL compelled to take a look:

Did you manage to resist looking at your BMI? If so why?

A seemingly simple question such as "Why BMI?" requires a much longer answer than expected.

Unfortunately there is a distinct lack of understanding on even where BMI originated from.
There are many advantages to using BMI and this article explains the critical role it plays in obesity research and day-to-day monitoring of people's weight.

Take a look here: WHY BMI? HISTORY, ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF BMI

Lipotrim Black Friday 50% Sale

Black Friday has come to Lipotrim!!  

Whether you live in the UK or Republic of Ireland Lipotrim is holding a 50% sale that you'll just love.

There are many posts going around the social media channels, directing customers to this superb, limited time offer. To grab your bargain please follow the following links:

Lipotrim Ireland SALE

Black Friday - 50% SALE now on - Lipotrim Ireland:

Use must use the special Coupon Code to get your discount: BLACK19  

https://buff.ly/2QXIuP0 

(online shop only, expires 04/12/19, cannot be used with any other coupon code)

Lipotrim UK SALE

 

Black Friday - 50% SALE now on - Lipotrim UK 

Want 50% off caramel bars & chocolate whip dessert mix??

You got it!! 

Just head over to https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/shop/ 

(onlineshop only, discount applied automatically to qualifying items, offer exp 04/12/19)

HOW HAND-WASHING TECHNIQUE CAN HELP IMPROVE WEIGHT LOSS

Do you know how to wash your hands properly?  

Do you use the correct hand-washing technique each and every time?

You may think you are a hand-washing angel, but we found a fascinating article in The Conversation with the surprising subject:

“Most people don’t wash their hands properly – here’s how it should be done”

The article triggered an interesting idea, using hand-washing technique as a means to explain both the needs and failures in commonly adopted methods of weight loss and weight management.

There are definite parallels between weight loss and hand-washing. Both dieting and hand-washing have obvious needs and sometimes failures and it is these parallels that we explore in our blog.

This is some critical dieting information, and some very interesting reading....

https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/hand-washing-technique-helps-weight-loss/

PHARMACY HAS A SAFE & EFFECTIVE WEIGHT LOSS SOLUTION FOR WORLD’S FATTEST MAN

The “World’s fattest man” is begging for NHS help to save his life according to a current news item in the Mirror newspaper by Adam Aspinall.  



He has already had a gastric bypass, the most drastic of weight loss surgeries available, yet has regained considerable weight.

With further help necessary, does the NHS have any further weight loss options available and can they afford it?


This article explores how people like the world's fattest man, carrying harmful, significant amounts of excess weight and addicted to food, can get help from their local pharmacy.
Pharmacy can offer anyone with excess weight a gold standard approach to weight loss and weight management, and at no cost to the NHS.

Read the full article here: 
https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/pharmacy-has-a-weight-loss-solution-for-worlds-fattest-man/

The 5 Year Pharmacy Funding Deal - an opportunity?

With the new 5 year funding deal for pharmacy details, or lack of, landing over the summer these bleak times for pharmacy have been confirmed. Or have they? 

This new pharmacy deal sets out the framework under which pharmacies sin the UK are going to be paid for their services to the NHS.

It is very important for pharmacy to take stock of their business and ride this wave of uncertainty by taking charge. The 5 year deal is just a set of NHS guidelines which have no sway on the plethora of private services pharmacy have to offer. Private services offer many benefits both clinically and financially to pharmacies and patients alike.

In this article we delve into how private services can offer pharmacy the opportunity to thrive even when the government and NHS are openly keen to shut a good many community pharmacies in the UK. 

READ THE FULL LIPOTRIM BLOG POST HERE....

https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/the-5-year-pharmacy-funding-deal-an-opportunity/

HOW TO TACKLE RISING OBESITY AND AVOID FAT-SHAMING

UK pharmacies are lighting the way to a more caring and sensitive approach to tackling obesity and avoiding the regular calls of fat-shaming that hound other weight loss providers and healthcare professionals.

Their Lipotrim pharmacy weight management programme allows for  different approach to weight loss, moving away from the often too simplistic "eat less and exercise more" mantra commonly raising calls of fat-shaming.

Take a look at the full blog post on "How to avoid fat-shaming", written by Lipotrim UK, here:

  https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/how-to-avoid-fat-shaming/

Pharmacy is tackling obesity and avoiding fat-shaming. But how?

Pharmacy in Ireland is using the safe and effective Lipotrim Ireland Pharmacy Weight Management Programme to help their patients lose weight and keep it off.

But how are pharmacies managing to talk about losing excess weight and dieting without the same backlash as Cancer Research UK?

This latest blog from Lipotrim Ireland looks into how to avoid fat-shaming and how pharmacy is taking the dehumanisation out of dieting.

https://ireland.lipotrim.com/how-to-avoid-fat-shaming/

Pharmacy offers a safe and effective way to lose weight

How do you select your diet choice?

Do you prefer to make online purchases for everything from cosmetics to food? 

Having stumbled across a website for weight loss using a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD). It is of real concern that this on-line diet company is promoting itself as a much better alternative than their perceived competitors, including Lipotrim, a Gold Standard Diet.

What concerned me was their emphasis on the lack of a requirement for monitoring, their diet being a simple transaction to purchase diet formulas with no face-to-face support. In the case of Lipotrim, monitoring by a healthcare professional comes as standard, always through a supervising doctor or pharmacist. The insistence of monitoring by a healthcare professional when following the Lipotrim programme, they suggest, is a great reason for ordering their diet on-line.

It is inconvenient to have to visit a pharmacy or a doctor’s practice isn’t it?     

After all, all you need is a diet shake or a diet bar and you can lose weight?

Please follow this link to the rest of the article on diet safety and diet choice. Thank you.

https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/diet-choice-safety/

DNP Diet pill deaths - Lipotrim predicted the future

DNP or 2,4-dinitrophenol is a lethal compound and not fit for human use

When it comes to weight loss, one of the single most dangerous things to do is to use DNP diet pills. DNP is lethal, with no safe dose possible and has no known antidote.

This latest blog post from Lipotrim UK delves further into what is DNP, how does DNP work and how pharmacy healthcare professionals can tackle the subject of DNP use and DNP toxicity.

Pharmacy is perfectly placed to offer effective weight management services, such as our highly effective diet, the Lipotrim Weight Management Programme. 


https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/dnp-diet-pill-deaths-lipotrim-predicted-the-future/

Pharmacy has the power to tackle obesity with confidence

Pharmacy leads the way on tackling obesity with confidence

The benefit to both patients and the NHS from taking obesity seriously is tremendous. As healthcare professionals, pharmacists and GPs have a duty of care to not only treat obesity related illnesses but to prevent their occurrence in the first place.

The ever rising levels of weight-related medical conditions, from hypertension to type 2 diabetes, seems to be going unchecked. Sugar tax and banning fast-food advertising before the water-shed is a sticking plaster at best. Healthcare professionals are seemingly constrained in their ability to tackle obesity when it comes to effective therapies and it seems a lack of confidence when discussing the subject.

Telling people to eat less and exercise more is not winning the fight against obesity.

Pharmacy is well placed to deal with obesity issues with confidence as this pharmacist, working in a Well Pharmacy branch in London explains through a podcast on the Chemist & Druggist website:

 https://www2.lipotrim.co.uk/lipotrim-helps-pharmacy-treat-obesity-with-confidence/

The podcast sheds a light on the many issues that need addressing when talking to patients about excess weight, including discussing the effective Lipotrim Pharmacy Weight Management Programme.

C&D AWARDS 2019

C&D AWARDS 2019

A HUGE SUCCESS FOR PHARMACY

A few weeks have now passed since the Chemist & Druggist Award ceremony 2019 which drew pharmacists and pharmacy staff from all over the UK.

A celebration of best practice and everything pharmacy can offer, from critical care to how pharmacy goes "Above and beyond", the evening was a huge success. A black-tie event with entertainment and a well organised after-show party, complete with casino, the 2020 C&D Awards ceremony will have to go some way to better 2019.

At Howard Foundation Research, we would like to extend our congratulations to the 14 winners and all those who entered the C&D Awards 2019, and especially to those who offer our Lipotrim programme.

An extra huge well done to Wansford Pharmacy who scooped the GP Partnership of the year award. Their entry included a piece on how they are adding to their essential pharmacy services by offering a comprehensive weight management option, including the Lipotrim Pharmacy Weight Management Programme, through a pharmacist clinic called Waistaway.

If you would like to get involved please contact us today or call 0800 413735.

GOLD STANDARD DIET

Is LIPOTRIM THE BEST DIET?

"Gold standard”, according to Mosby's Medical Dictionary, is:

“an acknowledged measure of comparison of the superior effectiveness or value of a particular medication or other therapy as compared with that of other drugs or treatments.”

So what makes a diet, a Gold Standard Diet?

The most recent Lipotrim UK and Lipotrim Ireland blogs examine what it takes to be the number 1 diet on the market.

If Lipotrim is not the gold standard diet, what diet is?

It is possible to answer this diet question by truthfully answering the following:

• Which diet is constantly being used as a comparison tool on other commercial diet websites?
• Which diet contains full nutrition at the optimal 425 to 570 Calories per day?
• Which diet upholds true food abstinence?
• Which diet gives very predictable, maximum rate weight losses, and can prove it?
• Which diet incorporates regular, direct healthcare professional contact as standard?
• Which diet maintains value for money in a world of “facelessness”?

Lipotrim is proud to be the weight management Gold Standard for healthcare professionals and the public alike, as it has been for more than 30 years.

Please click on the following links to read the full Lipotrim blogs:

Lipotrim UK Blog

Lipotrim Ireland Blog

Pharmacy can help stop the amputation epidemic

Amputations required through the progression of Type 2 diabetes is nearing epidemic levels - it is time we took weight loss seriously. 

Both Type 2 diabetes and the subsequent amputations are mostly preventable.

This is a fact known throughout the medical and clinical world.


The lack of true weight management as a first-line intervention is a blight on our society. Type 2 diabetics can be treated more effectively, potentially stopping the need for progressive medication and ultimately preventing amputations.

Pharmacy has the expertise and availability to turn the tide on this medievil procedure.

Take a look at our blog post, detailing the issues that surround type 2 diabetes and in particular amputations. We look at the amputation statistics and how pharmacy can solve the amputation issue.

Call the Lipotrim helpline 0800 413 735 if you would like further advice

Pharmacy can save the Ireland healthcare service now

With the Ireland healthcare service in turmoil, grassroots recruitment issues and limited bed capacity in secondary care are once again taking the brunt of the anger.

Recently Emily O’Conor wrote in the Irish Times an impassioned article titled:

Emergency staff work hard enough – it’s the system that’s not working
Government needs to focus on recruitment and bed capacity to solve crisis

The demand being placed on the financially stretched Ireland healthcare service is immense and no wonder the results were far from excellent in the first National Patient Experience Survey (May 2017).

Pharmacy can take the lead.

Read more about the issues in the Ireland healthcare service and how pharmacy has an opportunity to lead change here...

Lipotrim Ireland - click here

Very Low Calorie Diets - are they all the same?

It is often asked whether the Lipotrim Ireland diet is the same as Exante, Nupo or even the newly emerged NewWeigh.

Our Lipotrim Ireland helpline (tel: 015 255636) gets patients regularly calling, confused as to whether Lipotrim has been re-branded or re-formulated or has been discontinued in Ireland.

The simple answer to all these questions is NO.

Lipotrim is still Lipotrim

No re-branding

No re-formulating

Many people misunderstand there is real science behind a successful and safe diet like Lipotrim.
Not all diets are the same.

VLCDs are defined simply by being a nutritionally complete diet, with an intake at or below 800 Calories per day.

So how safe and effective are VLCDs?
Are all VLCDs the same?
Why should the Lipotrim pharmacy weight management programme be the diet of choice?

In this article we look into these dieting questions and discover the truth of what makes a safe and effective VLCD.

Please take the time to read the following article on the Lipotrim Ireland blog:

https://ireland.lipotrim.com/vlcds-lipotrim-newweigh-compared/ 

If you have any questions, concerns or would like to discuss using Lipotrim in Ireland please call us on our helpline: 01525 56 36

If you are in the UK please call 0800 413 735