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« Back to NewsSnack 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.
Dialogue sets the research agenda for tobacco control
7 November 2018
Health behaviours Public engagement & involvement
A Cochrane stakeholder engagement project led from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences informs national funding call for tobacco research.
No clear evidence that nicotine “preloading” helps smokers to quit
14 June 2018
Any beneficial effect may have been masked by reduction in use of smoking cessation drug.
Supermarket swaps support healthy diets
6 June 2018
Supermarket interventions could play role in public health strategies, study finds
The Big Crash Diet Experiment
30 May 2018
Clinical trials Health behaviours Public engagement & involvement
Professors Susan Jebb and Paul Aveyard team up with the BBC to put the latest research on “crash dieting” to the test.
Sweet snacks tax may be more beneficial than sugar tax
27 April 2018
A 10% tax on sweet snacks could lead to a similar reduction in consumer demand as taxing sugar-sweetened drinks, with the potential effect expected to be greatest in low-income households.
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Triple Dutch - three lessons from Dutch primary care
With significant recent announcements poised to affect the future of British general practice, GP academic trainee Dr Salman Waqar reflects on his visit to the Netherlands on an exchange program to see if the grass was greener on the other side.
Meat your persona: talking to Oxford's shoppers
The LEAP team have been talking to shoppers to learn more about their meat and dairy consumption and to share the results of their research into the environmental and health impacts with the public.
Helping smokers quit: financial incentives work
Financial incentives for smoking cessation come in all shapes and sizes, but do they work? Writing in the Conversation, Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce reviews the evidence with Dr Caitlin Notley.