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| About Weight Concern |
Weight Concern is a registered charity, set up in 1997 to tackle the rising problem
of obesity in the United Kingdom.
The charity, which won the Best New Charity of the Year Award in 2002, works to address both the physical and psychological
health needs of overweight people.
Weight Concern has shown how psychologists, dieticians and exercise specialists working together can help people make the
lifestyle changes they want, to control their weight.
Many health professionals and policy-makers stress the importance of prevention - helping people avoid becoming
overweight in the first place - and Weight Concern agrees. But because of the rising numbers of obese adults and
children, Weight Concern also believes more effective treatment options are needed to help those already overweight.
The charity is committed to developing and researching new treatments for obesity. It is also working to increase the
availability of the successful treatments it has pioneered in the UK:
- self-help programmes
- self-help support groups
- family based childhood obesity treatment
The charity also works to help people improve their health and feel good about themselves, whatever their weight.
Weight Concern receives grant funding to support its activities, from the Department of Health.
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