Talk references & further reading
Achieving better health with fewer pills
How to Lose Weight Well
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"Being an expert generalist" - Celebrating the expert generalist, BMJ, 2016
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"people with obesity complain of fatigue" Lim, Weonjeong, et al. "The association of obesity, cytokine levels, and depressive symptoms with diverse measures of fatigue in healthy subjects." Archives of internal medicine 165.8 (2005): 910-915.
"people with obesity complain they feel hungry"
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NICE overweight and Obesity Management Guidelines 8th Jan 2026
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What is a calorie? Wikipedia
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What factors affect brain centres that control appetite and drive to eat?
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Poverty; impact on brain function,
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Stress: association with increased appetite and obesity in children and adults
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Obesogens
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Inactivity
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infections
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Social isolation
Slide 13 The gut microbiome in obesity
Slide 15; The Constrained Energy Hypothesis
Slide 16; Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome
Slide 17; physical activity reduces activity in the immune system
Slide 21: mitochondrial function & obesity
Slide 26; shame and stigma in obesity
Slide 27; food poverty and malnutrition in obesity
Slide 29; Malnutrition with GLP1 - Wernike's Encephalopathy case 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and Scurvy reports
Slide 30; individual sustainability of GLP1 weight loss effect
Slide 31: societal sustainability of GLP1; cost of Eat Well for a year in the UK, cost of Mounjaro care on NHS for a year
Slide 36; what is lifestyle medicine? The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Slide 36; what is person centered care? The Personalised Care Institute
Slide 39; the commercial determinants of health
Slide 40; John Snow and Cholera in London 1880s
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