Public Health England launched its latest Better Health campaign last month in a bid to encourage adults across the UK to lose weight, eat more healthily and increase their level of activity.
New PHE research found that those who followed the NHS Weight Loss Plan app across a 12 week period lost 5.8kg on average.
However, this comes amid the findings that 41 per cent of adults have gained weight during lockdown, with an average of 4.1kg put on.
Meanwhile, 21 per cent reported that they had gained more than 6.3kg or one stone.
In adults aged 35 to 65 years old, the average weight gain for those who put on weight was more than 4.6kg.
Snacking and comfort eating was cited by 46 per cent of respondents as the cause of their weight gain, with 89 per cent claiming that it was important to them that they introduced healthier habits going forward.
"The pandemic has been hugely challenging for everyone and it has upended our daily routines," said public health minister Jo Churchill.
"As we build back better in the months ahead, we want to make it easier for people to adopt a healthier lifestyle that works for them.
"The brilliant Better Health campaign returns today and provides a wide range of tools – including an easy to use phone app – to support people, whether that’s losing weight, sharing healthier recipes or motivating people to be more active.
"Our new Office for Health Promotion is going to keep building on the success of this campaign, helping people to make lifestyle choices that improves both their mental and physical health."
The Centre for Nutrition Education & Lifestyle Management is an institution playing a role in improving health around the country through the provision of training and higher education qualifications in the field.
It offers high-quality, accessible, globally relevant and engaging education in personalised nutrition, and has taught university validated higher education nutrition degree courses since 2003.
Through a partnership with Middlesex University, CNELM runs degree courses in the following disciplines: BSc Hons Nutritional Science and MSc/PG Dip in Personalised Nutrition.
Additionally, it operates training programmes such as Why Weight Practitioner, which aims to aid students boost their coaching and nutrition practice and existing neuro-linguistic programming skills through a course which focuses on the important role the mind plays in contributing to weight issues and energy balance.
"This course focuses on the important role the mind plays in contributing to weight issues, disordered eating and energy balance," the overview reads.
"It aims to provide you with a flexible therapeutic framework, variable in its method of application. You will learn how to empower clients to have a better understanding of their unconscious behaviours, emotions, attitudes and beliefs relating to their weight and what motivates them to change."
