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Blogging

All blogposts on our own site can be found at www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/category/blog/ These can also be found below, together with blogs, opinion pieces and recordings by our researchers found elsewhere.

2021

Live Q&A on Covid vaccine safety – Toul Oni – @SliderCuts Instagram – 18 February 2021

UK landscape of prevention research – Nick Wareham, Gavin Malloch – MRC Insight Blog – 02 February 2021

English obesity policies have long been unfit for purpose, but they are improving – new research – Dolly Theis – The Conversation – 25 January 2021

2020

Type 2 diabetes weight loss recommendations could be harmful for some, depending on BMI – Jean Strelitz – The Conversation – 16 December 2020

Portion size estimation in dietary assessment: a systematic review of existing tools – Birdem Amoutzopoulos – Nutrition Reviews: Conversations with the Authors podcast – 31 October 2020

Why Government policy on obesity affects us all (3 part blog series)- Dolly Theis – Conservative Home – 27 October 2020

Time to take unhealthy options out of the spotlight – we need tough restrictions on junk food ads – Oliver Mytton – Telegraph – 26 October 2020

The Government needs a Plan B for Covid-19, lives and livelihoods. Here’s how one would work – Raghib Ali – Conservative Home – 22 October 2020

Covid-19. The pluses and minuses of the Government’s new plan – and why there should be no more lockdowns – Raghib Ali – Conservative Home – 25 September 2020

Beyond the pandemic – what should we do? Rethink the menu and how much it costs – Jean Adams – University of Cambridge – 24 September 2020

Dr Tolullah Oni reimagines society after COVID-19 – Tolu Oni – Global Science TV – 07 August 2020

A Marshall Plan for Planetary Health – Tolu Oni – Project Syndicate – 24 July 2020

Cities & Covid-19 – Tolu Oni, VK Madhavan, Ash Amin, Rob Doubleday – Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) Science, Policy & Pandemics series – 10 July 2020

Type 2 diabetes: eating a diet rich in fruit and vegetables daily lowers risk, study shows – Nita Forouhi, Ju-Sheng Zheng, Nick Wareham – The Conversation – 9 July 2020

What did we learn from Food for Thought 2018? – Nita Forouhi, Dariush Mozaffarian, John Schoonbee, Tim Spector, Navjoyt Ladher – BMJ/Swiss Re Food for Thought 2020 podcast – 29 June 2020

Public health response to ultra-processed food and drinks – Jean Adams – BMJ/Swiss Re Food for Thought 2020 podcast – 26 June 2020

How has the world changed and what challenges will we face post-COVID? – Tolu Oni – International Network for Government Science Advice video series – 25 May 2020

Cycling and walking to work lowers risk of cancer, heart disease and death – Richard Patterson, Anthony Laverty – The Conversation – 22 May 2020

Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Crisis  – Jean Adams, Jag Srai – Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) Science, Policy & Pandemics series – 22 May 2020

Here’s how ‘science diplomacy’ can help us contain COVID-19 – Marga Gual Soler, Tolu Oni –  World Economic Forum – 05 May 2020

Food insecurity in the UK – why we need a new normal – Amy Yau, Jean Adams, Martin White – MRC Epidemiology Unit blog, 30 April 2020

Impact Investment’s Pandemic Challenge – Tolu Oni, Gillian Marcelle, Tau Tavengwa – Project Syndicate – 24 April 2020

The Healthy Food Act – Oli Mytton – Bennett Prospect Prize essay – 22 April 2020

COVID-19 is showing us the link between human and planetary health – Tolu Oni – World Economic Forum – 22 April 2020

Sedentary behaviour interventions in real-world conditions: what are the health benefits? – Paddy Dempsey, Elisabeth Winkler, Nyssa Hadgraft  – Sedentary Behaviour Research Network blog – 20 April 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19)-induced re-imagination: 7 things we knew, but “could do nothing about”…until we could…and did – Tolu Oni – Next Einstein Forum – 20 April 2020

This is the best time to plan for urban Africa’s next health emergency – Tolu Oni – Quartz – 16 April 2020

Road Safety: switch to cycling to keep others safe – Rachel Aldred and James Woodcock – The Conversation – 07 April 2020

2019

Some countries have introduced mandatory nutritional labelling on menus – here’s why the UK should follow suit – Dolly Theis – The Conversation – 17 October 2019

Find our Feat: introducing the Food environment assessment tool – Tom Burgoine – Unit YouTube channel – 17 September 2019

Type 2 diabetes: small reduction in alcohol, big reduction in heart disease risk – Jean Strelitz – The Conversation – 05 August 2019

Type 2 diabetes: losing even a small amount of weight may lower heart disease risk – Jean Strelitz – The Conversation – 10 May 2019

Twenty times more English children could cycle to school with better transport planning – Rachel Aldred,  Anna Goodman,  James Woodcock and Robin Lovelace – The Conversation – 18 March 2019

Working life: Nutrition scientist Nita Forouhi – Nita Forouhi – MRC Insight blog – 06 Feb 2019

Career inspirations: Nita Forouhi, nutrition scientist – Nita Forouhi – MRC Soundcloud – 06 Feb 2019 (Download the MRC ‘Career inspirations’ series on iPlayer)

Physical activity programmes in schools aren’t working – here’s why – Rebecca Love, Esther van Sluijs, Jean Adams  – The Conversation – 17 January 2019

Genetics of Smokers – A. Mesut Erzurumluoğlu – Just an ordinary blog by an ordinary bloke – 12 Jan 2019

2018

Obesity prevention: Learning to do no harm – Sonja Klingberg – 2018 Max Perutz Science Writing Prize

Dairy fat and type 2 diabetes – how our new study uses biomarkers of intake to gain novel insights  – Fumiaki Imamura – The Conversation – 12 October 2018

Indian women confined to the home, in cities designed for men – Rahul Goel – The Conversation, 30 August 2018

Life after liver transplant: how dietitian Lynsey Spillman aims to improve the quality of life for people who have a new liver – Lynsey Spillman – Primary Care Unit website, 25 July 2018

Walking and cycling rather than driving may reduce your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by almost a third – Jenna Panter, Oliver Mytton – The Conversation, 22 May 2018

Junk food – have we #AdEnough? – Jean Adams – The Food Foundation Blog, May 2018

We uncovered the genetic basis of risk taking – and found it’s linked to obesity and mental illness – Emma Clifton, Felix Day, Ken Ong – The Conversation, 08 May 2018

2017

Why it’s not always ‘normal’ to exercise – and how that could change – Anna Le Gouais – CEDAR Blog, 21 November 2017

Lou’s Tuesday. Only 24 hours in a day- why does this matter for health research? – Lou Foley – MRC Epidemiology Unit YouTube channel, 15 August 2017

Childhood obesity in South Africa – is it a problem? – Sonja Klingberg – 2017 Max Perutz Science Writing Award

Changing the way we travel – Jenna Panter – Sustrans blog, 28 September 2017

Which activity types are healthy alternatives to replace leisure screen time and reduce mortality risk? – Katrien Wijndaele – PLOS  blog Obesity Panacea, 10 August 2017

Maintaining the same weight as you age may prevent diabetes – even if you’re overweight to begin with – Adina Feldman – The Conversation, 17 May 2017

Dairy got the all-clear last week – but was it justified? – Eirini Trichia, Nita Forouhi – The Conversation, 15 May 2017

Increasing community weight loss programme commissioning won’t be cheap, but could pay dividends – Amy Ahern – The Conversation, 05 May 2017

Studying change in behaviour and body weight over time has increased our understanding of the causes and possibilities for prevention of type 2 diabetes – Adina Feldman – MRC Epidemiology Unit blog, 03 April 2017

2016

Understanding the health benefits of the ‘sugar tax’: how will the soft drinks industry respond? – Oliver Mytton – FUSE Open Science Blog, 16 December 2016

A fresh insight into the links between birth weight and later life disease – Ken Ong – MRC Epidemiology Unit blog, 29 September 2016

A varied diet can prevent diabetes – but can you afford it? – Annalijn Conklin, Nita Forouhi, Pablo Monsivais – The Conversation, 21 July 2016

Are you in a healthy place? Reflections on a public engagement event – Oliver Francis, Paul Browne – MRC Insight blog, 19 July 2016

Local takeaways create a double burden for obesity – Thomas Burgoine, Pablo Monsivais – The Conversation, 13 May 2016

How we discovered that genes could influence the age when you first have sex – John Perry and Ken Ong – The Conversation, 19 April 2016

It’s time to change the way we think about changing what people eat – Jean Adams – The Conversation, 12 April 2016

Obesity: stop accusing the poor of making bad choices – Pablo Monsivais – The Conversation, 11 March 2016

Nature’s cure in the modern age – Oliver Mytton – CEDAR Blog, 07 January 2016

2015

Buses, bicycles and building for health – Jenna Panter – CEDAR Blog, 01 December 2015

Liberalising agricultural policy for sugar in Europe risks damaging public health – Emilie Aguirre, Oliver Mytton, Pablo Monsivais – The BMJ, 10 September 2015

Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results – Kirsten Corder – The Conversation, 04 September 2015

Have we been had? – Jean Adams – FUSE Open Science Blog, 14 April 2015

2014

Socio-economic inequalities in diets in UK adults: an updated picture of key food groups and nutrients from national surveillance data – Eva Maguire – Nutrition Society Paper of the Month, 08 December 2014

Lifestyle and type 2 diabetes  ― small changes, substantial impact – Paul Browne –  MRC Insight Blog, 13 June 2014

Keep the ‘five-a-day’ message for better health – it works – Nita Forouhi –  Daily Telegraph, 01 April 2014