About Us
Weight to Go is a subsidiary of Healthier Weight, an organisation exclusively devoted to the management of overweight and obese patients.
Our Medical Director David Ashton BSc, MD, PhD is a recognised authority on all aspects of obesity and its treatment. He has created a weight loss programme which offers fast, safe and sustainable weight loss. After graduating with a medical sciences degree from the University of St Andrews, Dr Ashton underwent clinical and postgraduate training at the University of Manchester where he achieved several academic distinctions. He subsequently completed a doctorate in epidemiology and biostatistics at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, where he now holds a senior academic appointment in the Cardiac Medicine Group. | | 
|
His research interests include the metabolic aspects of obesity, the relationship between physical activity and cardiovascular diseases and the development and application of screening algorithims for cancer and coronary heart disease. Dr Ashton has wide experience of cardiovascular assessment, including exercise electrocardiography, measurement of aerobic capacity, cardiac rehabilitiation and exercise prescription.
He has written guidelines on physical activity for the World Health Organisation and is contributing editor to the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. David Ashton is the author of numerous articles, scientific papers and book chapters. He is a regular contributor to national and international scientific conferences, has made numerous television and radio appearances and frequently lectures on a wide variety of medical topics to both medical and lay audiences. His publication on Food Advertising and Childhood Obesity, was published in the Royal Society of Medicine and the Guardian newspaper. His latest publication on the lack of evidences for preoperative psychological screening of the obese can be found in Obesity Journal.
Dr Ashton's interests outside medicine include the philosophy of science, a passion for the philosophy of David Hume and Arthur Schopenhauer, cycling and - of course - walking!
Dr Ashton is supported by an extensive team of Health Educators, weight loss experts and customer advisors, who are dedicated to ensuring you meet your weight loss goals.