{"id":225209,"date":"2026-01-03T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225209\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:51:10","slug":"real-health-january-reset-how-to-reverse-weight-gain-with-professor-donal-oshea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225209\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Health: January Reset: How to reverse weight gain with Professor Donal O&#8217;Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Real Health\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f4f04c65-6037-4c75-a0d2-ffc1ab5dec2c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Real Health<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Why are women aged 44 to 59 seeing some of the sharpest rises in weight gain? Is it menopause and hormones or the rush of modern life? And what role do medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro play?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Professor Donal O\u2019Shea, HSE Lead for Obesity, joins me on this week\u2019s episode of The Real Health podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In this episode from the vault, Professor O\u2019Shea has recently started using social media to combat misinformation when it comes to diet and nutrition. The Obesity expert explained, \u201cI wanted to get the facts out there because I had people coming up to me in the hospital saying, \u2018tell me exactly when I should start the carnivore diet? and how long I should be on it for?\u2019 I was going, eh no. I said, look we publish papers, we write review articles that go into medical journals, but it&#8217;s an echo chamber. Opinion and behaviour is formed out on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">During the conversation, the HSE Lead for Obesity said that there is some good news for the current status of Obesity in Ireland. He highlighted that, \u201cnumber one, we have levelled off in our obesity rates overall so we are no longer climbing. Secondly, we did not get the bump in obesity rates in childhood during COVID that were seen in other European countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You can listen to the full episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Health Why are women aged 44 to 59 seeing some of the sharpest rises in weight gain?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-225209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}