A civil servant who was left "crying on his knees" after being denied NHS weight loss jabs has remarkably lost nine stone and saved thousands of pounds by opting for private treatment.

A civil servant, who was left "crying on his knees" after failing to qualify for weight loss injections on the NHS, has shed nine stone and saved thousands of pounds by opting for private treatment.

“Mounjaro’s changed my life and it might have even saved my life,” Mark said. “I couldn’t walk across the car park in June and last weekend, I hiked Whernside mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. When I ...

With a body-mass index score of 57, well off the chart, he was still deemed ineligible for the NHS criteria, which demand a BMI over 35 plus at least one weight-related illness for those with "the ...

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Mark Spurr has gone from 30st to 21st after beginning weekly Mounjaro injections when he was denied help from the NHS because ...

Author: Lynne Yates is advanced clinical practitioner (nurse), Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust ... Use of visual aids such as the chart below can be useful to explain ...

Being overweight is defined as having more body fat than is ideal for good health. Body mass index (BMI) is a measuring tool to define whether a person is in the overweight category. It's important to ...

Despite having a body-mass index score of 57, off the chart, he was told he did not meet the NHS criteria, which include having "the highest clinical needs" with a BMI of over 35 and at least one ...

BMI stands for body mass index, explains Dr. Benedict Ifedi, MD, a family medicine doctor at Memorial Hermann. Dr. Glickman ...

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.