Urgently Wanted! 36 Obese People

March 26, 2012 - PRLog -- Concern for the problems of obesity has never been higher: if you Google "obesity" you get 8.7 million hits in the UK alone.  

It's not surprising: recent reports show that around 30,000 people a year die early from obesity-related illnesses in the UK. The National Audit Office calculate that the annual cost to the UK economy is around £2.3 billion pounds.  

The UK diet industry is reckoned to be worth £10 billion a year.

And yet medical authorities struggle to find effective interventions.  A University of Cambridge study reported "The clinical options for very fat people are limited. Most GPs despair of treating the massively obese." and a recent report from the University of York concluded: "Evidence suggested that combined exercise and diet interventions were better than diet-only interventions for long-term weight loss in adults. Both interventions were associated with partial weight regain."

Now Hampshire-based Live Free From Obesity is launching a brand-new self-help program that aims to use "diet and exercise interventions" and, in addition, adds work on the mental, emotional and social aspects of obesity.  As James Hardiman, founder of Live Free From Obesity says, "it's not so much the fat on our Backsides, Bellies and Boobs that need attention, but the fat on our Brains".

Using a nutrition system (which, in one study, resulted in the loss of over 16 tonnes in weight by 818 patients) developed at the University of Cambridge, an exercise regime (Walking for Happiness: http://www.WalkingForHappiness.co.uk) that has been shown to one of the most usable and effective for over-weight people, and a radical new group-based self-help regime ("Together We Can") which uses the latest findings from neuro-science, psychology and education, Live Free From Obesity brings obese people the promise of physical, mental and emotional well-being for life.

To launch this new programme into "beta test" we are looking for 36 obese people who are ready to achieve physical, mental and emotional well-being.  The programme is not a "silver bullet"; participants will meet together weekly or more for a year.  However, in tests during the development of the programme we have seen weight loss of 7 stones in five months, total remission from type II diabetes, normalization of high blood pressure and high-cholesterol, and people previously incapable of walking a mile without severe fatigue completing half-marathon walks with ease.

In return for taking part in the Live Free From Obesity beta programme, all tuition and training fees for participants will be waived, forever.  They will also be encouraged to take part in our "Lose a Ton for Sport Relief", where the group aims to achieve a combined weight loss of 2240lbs.

For more details and the opportunity to get a free book on the subject ("The Final Pieces of the Weight-Loss Puzzle") both potential clients, and interested health-care practitioners, are invited to check out www.LiveFreeFromObesity.co.uk.

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