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« Back to News and opinionStudy reveals environmental impact of 57,000 multi-ingredient processed foods for first time
9 August 2022
New 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.
Research from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences contributes to new guidelines on faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in patients with signs or symptoms of suspected colorectal cancer
4 August 2022
The 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.
Measured weight loss associates with an increased risk of a cancer diagnosis
4 August 2022
Weight loss is a sign of undiagnosed cancer regardless of the interval over which it occurs.
More children aged 8-17 trying to lose weight than a decade ago, including children of a healthy weight
19 July 2022
New 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.
COVID-19 vaccine protects people of all body weights from hospitalisation and death, a study of 9 million adults in England finds
1 July 2022
COVID-19 Health behaviours QResearch
Two 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.
Removal 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.
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