Ten Top Tips

Weight Concern has joined forces with Cancer Research UK to develop Ten Top Tips. 

Ten Top Tips is a simple leaflet-based intervention which focuses on forming healthy habits for weight management.  

The leaflet is designed for overweight adults and can be ordered or downloaded free of charge.

Ten Top Tips leaflets

Leaflets can be ordered from the Cancer Research UK website. Please click here

Alternatively, you can download a pdf of the leaflet 

 Ten Top Tips Trial

If you are part of the Ten Top Tips trial, or you would like to read more about Ten Top Tips, please click here

The Background of Ten Top Tips

Many people are familiar with the idea of getting into bad habits and how difficult it can be to change.  By understanding how habits are formed, it is possible to develop new healthy habits which can have long-lasting, positive effects on our health.

Ten Top Tips promotes the formation of healthy eating and activity habits, such as eating regularly, swapping to low fat foods and walking every day. Once healthy habits are formed, we are more likely to continue the healthy behaviour.

Research into Ten Top Tips

Research into Ten Top Tips was undertaken at University College London. A small pilot trial and a larger, randomised controlled trial of 100 people showed that those who received the Ten Top Tips leaflet lost significantly more weight than those who did not receive it.

Weight Concern is currently involved in a further randomised controlled trial of Ten Top Tips in Primary care, in conjunction with staff from University College London. The trial is being funded by the Medical Research Council

For more information about the use of habit theory in weight management, click here.

 More information: 

The Science behind the Ten Top Tips

Extra information about the Ten Top Tips from the Cancer Research UK website