Experts’ health fears over miracle weight-loss jabs

HEALTH experts have slammed clinics selling “miracle” weight loss injections for persuading slimmers that they’re a quick fix.

The Saxenda injections can be life-saving for people with diabetes and obesity.

Yet “skinny jabs” are being sold from clinics on the promise that they will help people fit into party dresses and get beach body ready.

A month’s course is about £250 but to keep the weight off, the jabs must be daily.

“Saxenda, the drug in the injections, was not designed as a quick fix for weight loss,” said Dr Carel le Roux, an expert in metabolic medicine at

Imperial College London. “People need to be careful. It’s a treatment for people who have an illness and need help.”

Sarah Le Brocq, director of Obesity UK, who appeared on Bbctwo’swhoareyou Calling Fat? last week, said: “Some clinics and websites are ruining the chances of Saxenda being available on the NHS because of the way they’re promoting it and charging a fortune.”

The Skinnyjab website tells visitors they can “wave goodbye to hunger”, and explains the jabs

“contain an appetite suppressant that can regulate the glucose level in your blood, allowing your body to use your stored fat for energy”.

Realitytv stars including Kerry Katona, 39, Gemma Collins, 38, and Ampika Pickston 38, have told how they have lost weight after using the jabs. Gemma, an ambassador for the weight loss service Skinnyjab, said: “I went on the jabs and that has been really good for me.”

A spokesman for Skinnyjab said: “We acknowledge that it’s not a quick fix but it’s a kick-start and can be extremely successful, as Gemma Collins has found.”