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« Back to NewsJunk food ads flood children’s social media feeds, new study finds
26 February 2025
New research shows children and young people are bombarded with social media ads for junk food, which influence their food choices, but current rules do little to protect them.
Broaching weight loss conversations: new research offers effective guidance for clinicians
3 February 2025
New research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences sets out evidence-based guidance to help clinicians have more effective and supportive conversations about weight loss with patients living with obesity.
Weight loss programmes improve disordered eating symptoms, new study finds
3 February 2025
New research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Department of Psychiatry provides reassurance that weight loss programmes do not worsen disordered eating symptoms and may lead to improvements in people who already exhibit symptoms of disordered eating.
Doctors' communication style can boost patients' weight loss success, first-of-its-kind study reveals
7 November 2023
Discover how effective doctor-patient communication significantly boosts weight loss success in this new study. Simple, compassionate dialogue leads to better obesity care outcomes.
Professor Peter Scarborough co-leads new £5.4 million national consortium to transform the food system and encourage healthier diets
1 June 2023
SALIENT will co-design and evaluate interventions that support healthier diets and reduce the environmental impacts of our food system, working with partners in local government, food charities, community support teams and the food industry.
Latest Cochrane Review finds high certainty evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) in helping people quit smoking
17 November 2022
Research led by the University of Oxford, and funded by Cancer Research UK, has found the strongest evidence yet that e-cigarettes, also known as ‘vapes’, help people to quit smoking better than traditional nicotine replacement therapies, such as patches and chewing gums.
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