The Confidence Interval is a new, occasional podcast from the MRC Epidemiology Unit, which leads CEDAR – talking science, people and public health. The lates episode features a recording of […]
Obesity prevention: Learning to do no harm – 2018 Max Perutz shortlisted article
This article by Sonja Klingberg, a PhD student in the Unit’s Behavioural Epidemiology programme, was shortlisted for the 2018 Max Perutz Science Writing Award. You can read all the shortlisted […]
Swapping the car for more active forms of travel could reduce heart disease
Dr Jenna Panter and Dr Oliver Mytton write in The Conversation about new research published in the journal Heart. Swapping your car for more physically active forms of travel may […]
Junk food – have we #AdEnough?
In a blog post, first published by the Food Foundation, CEDAR’s Dr Jean Adams discusses junk food marketing restrictions. Last week celebrity chef Jamie Oliver launched his #AdEnough campaign in […]
The price of prevention – healthy diets and the cost of food
For decades, the UK government has provided science-based recommendations and guidelines for healthy eating, but British diets still fall short of these recommendations. Understanding the population-level factors behind this shortfall […]
Why it’s not always ‘normal’ to exercise – and how that could change
CEDAR PhD Student Anna Le Gouais writes about why her commute and her research are intimately connected. I cruise past the snake of slow moving traffic, the breeze on my […]
Childhood obesity in South Africa – is it a problem?
This article by Sonja Klingberg, a PhD student at CEDAR and the MRC Epidemiology Unit, was shortlisted for the 2017 Max Perutz Science Writing Award. You can read all the […]
Lou’s Tuesday. Only 24 hours in a day- why does this matter for health research?
There are only 24 hours in a day. Why does this matter for health research? Dr Lou Foley has made a short video to introduce the concept of compositions and […]
Happy Mondays (and every day) – putting health at the centre of our cities
This article was originally published in Cambridge University Research Horizons Magazine. Life in towns and cities can grind you down, but putting health and wellbeing at the centre of new […]
A varied diet can prevent diabetes – but can you afford it?
By Annalijn Conklin Research Scholar in Global Health & Policy, University of California, Los Angeles (and a former PhD student at CEDAR); Nita Forouhi, programme lead, Nutritional Epidemiology, MRC Epidemiology […]