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Opinion: Maintaining the same weight as you age may prevent diabetes – even if you’re overweight to begin with

19 May 2017

Dr Adina Feldman, writing for ̽»¨Ö±²¥Conversation, looks at how diabetes can be prevented even in people who are moderately overweight.

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Extending weight loss programme helps overweight people keep more weight off and is cost-effective

04 May 2017

Extending NHS weight loss programmes from one session per week for 12-weeks to one session per week for a year helped people who are overweight to...

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' ̽»¨Ö±²¥Iron Lady' and the paradox of treating anaemia

03 Feb 2017

Iron deficiency can be fatal. But in countries where patients are also likely to have other serious diseases, so too can the iron supplements used to...

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Mediterranean diet may protect your brain in old age, new finding suggests

06 Jan 2017

Could a Mediterranean diet keep your brain young? That is the tantalising finding from a study out this week. Writing on ̽»¨Ö±²¥Conversation website...

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Cambridge to play major role in €400m EU food innovation project

13 Dec 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is one of a number of British universities and companies that have won access to a £340 million EU Innovation programme...

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Rice farming in India much older than thought, used as 'summer crop' by Indus civilisation

21 Nov 2016

Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, latest research shows domesticated rice agriculture in India and Pakistan existed centuries earlier...

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Mediterranean diet could lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in the UK

29 Sep 2016

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

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Opinion: Accurate science or accessible science in the media – why not both?

02 Jun 2016

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson ( ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston ̽»¨Ö±²¥), and...

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Opinion: GM crops already feed much of the world today – why not tomorrow’s generations too?

24 May 2016

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

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Neighbourhoods with more takeaways amplify social inequalities in unhealthy eating and obesity

11 May 2016

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...

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Opinion: Local takeaways create a double burden for obesity

11 May 2016

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

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Overweight individuals more likely to make unhealthier choices when faced with real food

14 Apr 2016

Overweight people make unhealthier food choices than lean people when presented with real food, even though both make similar selections when...

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