9 August 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research, led by researchers at the universities of Oxford and Aberdeen, highlights a new way of assessing the environmental impacts of supermarket food. It finds that plant-based foods have the lowest environmental impacts and that more nutritious foods are often more sustainable.
\n \n\n \n \n4 August 2022
\n \n \n \nThe joint guideline from the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) provides a clear strategy for the use of FIT in the colorectal cancer diagnostic pathway.
\n \n\n \n \n4 August 2022
\n \n \n \nWeight loss is a sign of undiagnosed cancer regardless of the interval over which it occurs.
\n \n\n \n \n19 July 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences researchers, including DPhil student Melissa Little, has found that the number of children aged 8-17 reporting weight loss attempts has increased over the last decade. The researchers also identified key characteristics linked to an increased likelihood of weight loss attempts.
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\n \n \n \nTwo doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are effective against severe disease for people who are underweight, overweight, or who have obesity, finds new research published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, led by researchers at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n \n \nBanning prominent in-store displays of Easter eggs and seasonal confectionery could help reduce calories in shopping baskets, according to an independent evaluation by researchers at the University of Oxford. The team worked with a large UK food retailer who removed end-of-aisle and store entrance freestanding promotional displays of seasonal chocolate in a sample of stores, for seven weeks before Easter 2019. They found a significant attenuation of the usual seasonal increase in confectionery sales in these intervention stores compared to control stores.
\n \n\n \n \n17 March 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are to lead a new \u00a32.2 million project aimed at giving more people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes the chance of going into remission.
\n \n\n \n \n31 January 2022
\n \n \n \nBoosting the number of plant-based options can be an effective way of encouraging people to choose them and reducing meat purchase and consumption. New research finds that increasing the ratio of meat-free to meat-based meals in canteens could be a simple intervention to promote more sustainable food purchases, and is published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
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\n \n \n \nTwo common dietary patterns identified in British adults, which include high intakes of chocolate and confectionary, may be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death in middle-age, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine by Oxford University researchers.
\n \n\n \n \n26 March 2021
\n \n \n \nFive simple communication changes could enable doctors to have more equitable and effective conversations about weight loss, finds new research from the University of Oxford and Loughborough University. With obesity as one of the few modifiable risk factors for developing severe COVID, the findings are especially important during the current pandemic.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n14 October 2020
\n \n \n \nNewly updated Cochrane evidence published today in the Cochrane Library finds that electronic cigarettes containing nicotine could increase the number of people who stop smoking compared to nicotine replacement therapy \u2013 such as chewing gum and patches \u2013 and compared to no treatment, or electronic cigarettes without nicotine. More information is needed on harms.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n5 September 2019
\n \n \n \nEffect was double that seen for similar price increase on sugar sweetened drinks
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\n \n \n \nDoctors should offer structured weight loss programmes to patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease finds new research led by the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n20 June 2019
\n \n \n \nUniversity of Oxford researchers will be at Oxford\u2019s Westgate Shopping Centre from Monday 24th to Sunday 30th June and they want you to Meat Your Persona.
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