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Britons eating a Mediterranean diet could lower their risk of developing heart disease and stroke, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson ( ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston ̽»¨Ö±²¥), and Jaan Altosaar (Princeton ̽»¨Ö±²¥) discuss why much reporting on science is currently failing to resolve the trade-off between accessibility and accountability.

Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) discusses how genetically modified crops could help solve the problem of food security.

People who live or work near to a greater number of takeaway outlets are more likely to eat more takeaway food and to be overweight, but new research indicates that neighbourhoods that are saturated with fast food outlets may be particularly unhealthy for people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged.

Thomas Burgoine and Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discuss how takeaways can make social inequality worse.

Overweight people make unhealthier food choices than lean people when presented with real food, even though both make similar selections when presented with hypothetical choices, according to research led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and published today in the journal eNeuro.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Chancellor's recent announcement about a tax on sugary drinks is a step in the right direction towards fighting obesity, but we will need to use lot of different approaches simultaneously to make big changes, writes from the Centre for Diet & Activity Research, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit.

Giles Yeo (MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit) discusses the origins of lactose intolerance.

We know a lot about food but little about the food choices that affect the nation’s health. Researchers have begun to devise experiments to find out why we choose a chocolate bar over an apple – and whether ‘swaps’ and ‘nudges’ are effective.

Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discusses obesity and the influence of socioeconomic circumstances in shaping food choices.