
Becky Richards
@drbeckyrichards
Psychologist | Building and scaling obesity services for health-tech startups 🚀
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23-01-2018 10:28:04
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We’re growing our wonderful psychology team at Second Nature 🤩. We’re looking for a dynamic Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner to join us. Please share with your networks! 🙏 Link to apply here: apply.workable.com/secondnature/j… Second Nature

EASO proposes an updated framework for diagnosing, staging, and managing adult obesity, aligning it with the concept of obesity as a chronic disease. Read the full paper: easo.org/a-new-framewor… Luca Busetto Jason C G Halford Gijs Goossens @EASOPresident



Over 1 billion people live with #obesity. There is an urgent need for a universal definition & diagnosis. 🆕 A The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission introduces a new model with categories: clinical obesity (an illness) & pre-clinical obesity. This reframing identifies medically meaningful


Prof Alex Miras kicking off the Association for the Study of Obesity UK clinical meeting in Nottingham, focusing on obesity treatment in primary care 🤩


Dr Samantha Scholtz on the early evidence for GLP1s for people with obesity and BED. Looks promising 🤞 but important to screen and monitor throughout to provide extra support where needed Association for the Study of Obesity UK Samantha Scholtz


Great workshop from Dr Sue Kenneally, obesity medicine physician & Dimitris Papamargaritis on potential models for delivery of GLP1s and wrap around support in primary care. Sue & I got our #ASO selfie in early this year 🤩



