Health coach says fat jabs only rent weight loss without nutrition education
Health coach Steve Bennett tells GB News that weight loss jabs work but weight returns when stopped, and calls for better food education in schools and for doctors.
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A health coach has warned that weight loss injections, often called fat jabs, are not a permanent solution and that the weight returns when people stop taking them. Speaking on a GB News programme, Steve Bennett said the drugs do work in the short term, but the results are effectively rented.
"You are renting the results," he said. "If you stop, the weight comes back. That's the evidence from all the research." He added that because people lose weight so quickly, they also lose muscle, and when the weight returns it comes back as more fat.
Bennett, who has written seven books on health, argued that the jabs should only be used alongside proper nutrition education. He said the main reason people gain weight is poor food choices, and that good food needs to be made more convenient, affordable, and enjoyable.
He also criticised the lack of food education in schools. "We don't teach kids at school food anymore," he said. "You can do it as a GCSE, but only like one in 12 people do. So what happens to the other 11? They can't cook, they can't boil an egg."
Bennett went on to highlight a gap in medical training. He asked how much nutrition doctors learn in five years at medical school, and answered: "How about two hours? Really? Not a day, not a week, not a month. In five years, they have two hours on nutrition."
He also took aim at official dietary guidelines, saying the UK food pyramid is the wrong way round. He argued that protein and vegetables should be the priority, with fewer carbohydrates, and that the current guidelines are followed by schools, hospitals, and the military, which makes them harmful.
Bennett acknowledged the convenience economy, including delivery apps like Deliveroo and Uber Eats, as a challenge. He said he has seven children and even they sometimes order food they know they should not eat. But he said the answer is not to ban these services, but to change what people understand about food and get them back to cooking.
He suggested technology, such as AI, could help people work out what to cook with ingredients they have at home, but insisted the core need is education. Without it, he said, people will keep "renting the results" from weight loss drugs.
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| Claim | GB News |
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| Medical students receive only two hours of nutrition training over five years. | |
| Schools no longer teach food and cooking to most children. | |
| Stopping weight-loss injections leads to weight regain. |
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The channel focused on the health coach's critique of weight loss jabs, stressing that they are not a long-term fix and that education is the real answer. It also gave airtime to his views on the food pyramid, school cooking lessons, and the lack of nutrition training for doctors. The tone was conversational and supportive of the coach's arguments.
- “You are renting the results. You know, if you stop, the weight comes back.”
- “We've got to educate people to eat right.”
- “We've got to change the education with our doctors. We've got to change the education with our kids.”
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