Slim Down, Shape Up - National Slimming Clinics Offers Free Weight Loss Treatments to Job Seekers

LONDON, May 4, 2010 - The recession may be drawing to a close but its affects are
still gripping the UK. With unemployment levels at their highest since 1994,
finding a job has become a serious competition and those that win are not
always the ones most qualified.

National Slimming Clinics are offering to help five active job
seekers local to each of their 30 nationwide slimming and cosmetic clinics,
by providing them with a medically supervised weight loss and management
programme, designed to help the overweight lose 13Ibs or more in the first
month followed by a consistent weight loss of 6Ibs each month thereafter.
This unique three step scheme will be offered free of charge and aims to help
job seekers get healthy, improve their confidence and get back on their feet.

Robert Houtman, Managing Director of National Slimming Clinics says,

"Successive governments have done nothing to help the
overweight either lose weight or find jobs and the NHS offers little help for
the obese. Patients are turned away from doctors surgeries because they are
not quite heavy enough or they are told they have to lose 5% of their body
weight by themselves before they qualify to be treated. The NHS need to
recognise that obesity is not a disease it is equipped to treat and cooperate
with private CQC registered clinics to provide real help and support.
Countless studies have shown that obese people are discriminated against in
the job market despite their qualifications but still, with unemployment
going through the roof, the government fails to help them."

Alison West, 44, Crawley West Sussex, worked for the airlines
and was made redundant during cut backs in the recession. When she tried to
get back to work she says "I would wait for interviews surrounded by thin
women who were not as qualified or experienced as me but who looked the part
and inevitably I was turned down. I weighed 16 stone but I felt invisible."
Alison signed up with her local National Slimming Clinic and took part in the
weight management scheme. She lost 5 stone and found a job as a manager in a
local business. She says "My confidence was restored. The NSC weight loss
plan was so easy to follow and the weekly check ups gave me the support to
keep me on track. But my biggest incentive is my fat pictures that I keep in
a drawer at work to remind me how far I've come!"

To apply for a place on the job seekers weight loss programme
please contact National Slimming Clinics on 0800-9179334

www.nscclinics.co.uk

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