#nhs-guidelines

#nhs-guidelines

For a festival with childbirth at its religious heart, it is perverse how much of our traditional Christmas spread isn't recommended for pregnant women. Pre-pregnancy, this was not something I'd clocked. I was the soft cheese supremo, canape queen at my happiest with a smoked trout blini in one hand and a champagne flute in the other. Then one day in October, two blue lines appeared on a test result and everything started to change: my body, my future and most pressingly my Christmas.

NICE recommends prioritizing personalized treatment for type 2 diabetes and expanding access to SGLT-2 inhibitors to prevent complications and save lives.

"These drugs are very effective at helping you lose weight, but when you stop them, weight regain is much faster than after stopping diets," said Susan Jebb.