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

Diabetes Awareness month 2018 - impact on family & support networks

Type 2 diabetes affects not only the sufferer but their family and their whole network of support.

November 2018 has seen the annual reflection on type 2 diabetes and this year looking at the impact diabetes has on the whole, not just the sufferer.

Diabetes costs the NHS £billions yet is mostly preventable.

In this latest Lipotrim blog post we look at World Diabetes Day and Diabetes awareness month, and how diabetes is affecting many people's lives negatively.

From Travel and Health Insurance, to the terrible medical complications (including amputations!) type 2 diabetes affects many people unnecessarily.

Type 2 diabetes is mainly a preventable condition.
Type 2 diabetes is often referred to as a "lifestyle disease".

So why oh why are we not doing more to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes?

Take a look at the full post where we discuss these issues and how pharmacy has the answer...

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

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

Lipotrim Maintenance programme - How it works.

Using the Lipotrim Maintenance Programme is the ideal way to maintain your weight after using the Lipotrim Total Food Replacement Programme.

The significant weight losses achieved through using the pharmacy programme are often life-changing, and for some life-saving. However, no matter the diet method used to get weight loss, there are many factors that mean the hard work is still to be done. Weight management is not easy if you go it alone and ignore some very important principles.

Obesity is a chronic issue, so to prevent weight regain, we must look at obesity in the same way we look at many other addictive behaviours, from smoking to alcohol abuse.

The article https://ireland.lipotrim.com/lipotrim-maintenance-programme/ explains the role of Low Glycaemic Index foods, water intake, and the role of the Lipotrim maintenance formula foods in weight maintenance.

If you have lost weight and are struggling to maintain your new healthy weight please read this article and contact our helpline for extra support and advice:

Lipotrim UK        0800 413 735

Lipotrim Ireland  01525 56 36

Type 2 Diabetes forced into remission by weight loss diet.

Tackling Type 2 Diabetes through weight loss using Lipotrim, a professional, evidence based programme, is a great opportunity for pharmacy.

Pharmacy has come a long way from the time of purely dispensing prescriptions and giving advice on minor ailments. Pharmacy has come out of the shadows and is showing great strength in adapting to a more clinical role.


The pharmacy profession has always been clinical in nature, with a background of 4 years at University and a requirement to fulfill Continued Professional Development (CPD) throughout the year. Other healthcare professionals value the in depth knowledge pharmacists have in medicines and medical conditions.

Pharmacists are the healthcare experts on the high street who are now utilizing their clinical knowledge to offer a wide range of health services; from stop smoking services to travel clinics and flu-jabs.

Lipotrim Pharmacy Programme

Lipotrim is a pharmacy programme (other trained and qualified healthcare professionals can also run Lipotrim clinics) which delivers predictable, comfortable weight loss at the maximum safe rate.

It is very important to note that weight loss is not benign. Many medical conditions benefit from losing excess weight, especially Type 2 Diabetes. It is now well known that the second most preventable cause of cancer, behind smoking, is obesity. Weight loss matters and should not be underestimated in its role in the prevention and treatment of many medical conditions.

Pharmacy is in an ideal position to tackle the obesity crisis and by utilizing the expertise of pharmacists, the Lipotrim programme can deliver the weight loss required to force type 2 diabetes into remission within days.

The mounting evidence behind Very Low Calorie Diets, such as Lipotrim, added to recently by the DIRECT study at Newcastle University, makes Lipotrim a great opportunity for pharmacists and sufferers of type 2 diabetes.

            Please read our full article here:

                   Type 2 Diabetes & Lipotrim pharmacy programme

                         Pharmacy can help reverse type 2 diabetes