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Should obesity be recognised as a disease?
20 July, 2019 (Full version, does not a subscription or login)
Categorising obesity as a disease will encourage people to seek treatment say John P H Wildingand Vicki Mooney,but Richard Pile thinks medicalisation would be disempowering and reduce motivation.
Obesity: Disease or just plain greed?
12 August, 2019
The number of obese Britons has doubled in 25 years but experts are torn over how to battle the bulge – here, two leading doctors weigh in with very different views.
Health: Dangerous overdose of food?
15 October, 2021
My article on the issue of obesity and what role the church might have in addressing it. This provoked much debate on social media, due the the sensitivity of the issue, primarily around the images used by the Church Times rather than the content itself.
St Albans GP publishes guide to living
14 April, 2021
An article in the Herts Advertiser about the publication of my book, Fit For Purpose.
How healthy is your church leader – and your church?
14 April, 2021
How far do your church leaders model good health and wellbeing in the way the church is run and the example they set for the congregation? And how often do they teach about living well? These challenges are posed by experienced general practitioner and Christian, Dr Richard Pile, in a newly-published book.
Insights from Dr. Richard Pile
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #17
Welcome to the latest edition of my weekly wellbeing round-up. The last couple of posts have been on the topics of making a wellbeing plan and the importance of...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #16: connecting for wellbeing.
Over the last few months on this blog I have talked a lot about eating, moving, sleeping and relaxing. As I have learnt from others and developed my own model of...
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #15: making a plan to improve your wellbeing.
When I first became a GP, I decided that many of my patients who needed to make lifestyle changes also had undiagnosed conditions that resulted in problems with their...