Professor Kate Hunt, one of ISMH’s behaviour change experts, was mentioned in an article on male weight loss in the Daily Telegraph last week. Much of Kate’s work over the past decade has focussed on gender and health, and she commented on her research on how group settings and the pursuit of goals can help inspire men to weight-loss where traditional regimes tend to fail. Kate explained details about her study of the Football Fans in Training (FFIT) scheme in Scotland, in which overweight men lost on average 5.6kg through weekly football games led by coaches at professional clubs, group support, and no-nonsense food advice.
You can read more of the article in the Daily Telegraph (paywall) from the 27th November, or you can access one of the papers on the FFIT study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published earlier this year.