Can nutrition help you lose weight quickly?

The Anthem Plan 00:28 min watch Published 5 March 2026 Dr Ravi Assomull, Consultant Cardiologist

Rapid weight loss strategies can sometimes be unsustainable or harmful if not approached carefully. Matt Lovell discusses the role nutrition plays in weight management and explains how structured dietary changes can help support effective weight loss.

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Transcript

In order to lose weight quickly, the first thing I would ask you is why do you want to lose it so quickly? Yeah, so really weight loss is always much better done in a sustainable manner. Lots of crash diets work for two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, but then people fail to sustain their behaviours and then they rebound, gain all the weight back again.

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