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« Back to News and opinionRemoval of prominent displays in-store reduces hike in Easter chocolate sales
24 March 2022
Banning 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.
NDPCHS Professors Susan Jebb and Paul Aveyard lead new project to help people into remission from type 2 diabetes
17 March 2022
Researchers from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are to lead a new £2.2 million project aimed at giving more people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes the chance of going into remission.
Expanding meat-free offering can reduce meat purchases: an observational study
31 January 2022
Boosting 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.
Foods associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death in middle-age identified
22 April 2021
Cardiovascular & metabolic Health behaviours
Two 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.
Five simple steps to effective opportunistic weight loss conversations in family practice
26 March 2021
Health behaviours Policy & health systems
Five 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.
Updated Cochrane Review shows electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking but more evidence is needed on long-term harms
14 October 2020
Health behaviours Research methods & EBM
Newly 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 – such as chewing gum and patches – and compared to no treatment, or electronic cigarettes without nicotine. More information is needed on harms.
Snack tax may be more effective than a sugary drink tax to tackle obesity
5 September 2019
Effect was double that seen for similar price increase on sugar sweetened drinks
Doctors should offer structured weight loss programmes as treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
1 July 2019
Doctors should offer structured weight loss programmes to patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease finds new research led by the University of Oxford.
Meet your 'Meat Persona'
20 June 2019
Health behaviours Public engagement & involvement
University of Oxford researchers will be at Oxford’s Westgate Shopping Centre from Monday 24th to Sunday 30th June and they want you to Meat Your Persona.
Online shopping interventions may help customers buy healthier foods
13 June 2019
Altering the default order in which foods are shown on the screen, or offering substitutes lower in saturated fat could help customers make healthier choices when shopping for food online, new research finds.
Nicotine replacement therapy more successful in combination form
18 April 2019
New Cochrane Review investigates the effectiveness of different forms of nicotine replacement therapy in helping people give up smoking
Low calorie meal replacements are a cost-effective routine treatment for obesity in the NHS
25 February 2019
Replacing all regular meals with a low calorie diet of soups, shakes and bars, together with behavioural support, is cost-effective as a routine treatment for obesity
New Oxford Sparks podcast launched "Should I be a vegan?"
7 January 2019
Health behaviours Public engagement & involvement
In this episode of the Big Questions podcast, Dr Christina Potter in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences is asked "Should I be a vegan?"
Oxford-led DROPLET study informs NHS action to tackle obesity and type 2 diabetes
30 November 2018
Clinical trials Health behaviours
Hundreds of thousands of people will receive help to battle obesity and Type 2 diabetes under radical new NHS plans to trial very low calorie diets for the first time.
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