Designing for health – creating physically active communities
CEDAR PhD student Anna Le Gouais outlines the findings of research on the opportunities and challenges in creating neighbourhoods that encourage physical activity and promote health. This piece was...
View ArticleMenu labelling linked to less fat and salt in food at major UK restaurant chains
Food sold at restaurants whose menus display energy information are lower in fat and salt than that of their competitors, according to new research from CEDAR.The researchers behind the study argue...
View ArticleSome countries have introduced mandatory nutritional labelling on menus –...
CEDAR Ph.D. student Dolly Theis writes about how labelling menus may help us to eat more healthily. This post was originally published in The Conversation.Would you eat a burger if you knew it...
View ArticleCambridge Science Festival – Building a healthier childhood for a brighter...
Sunday, 22 March, 11.00am – 4pm (drop in) Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, Robinson Way, CB2 0SZ On Sunday 22 March members of CEDAR and the MRC Epidemiology Unit will be taking part in a...
View ArticleCEDAR Bulletin February 2020 – our latest news, events and evidence
The February 2020 edition of CEDAR Bulletin is out now. Read it here.This issue includes: Four questions to help us make CEDAR Bulletin better Sugar levels in UK soft drinks lowered following...
View ArticleSugar levy had no lasting negative impacts on the UK soft drinks industry,...
Leading UK soft drinks companies continued to experience positive growth in their share prices during the implementation of the UK Government’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), despite widespread...
View ArticleMen pose more risk to other road users than women
Greater gender equity in road transport jobs might help reduce fatalities, suggest researchersMen pose more risk to other road users than women do and they are more likely to drive more dangerous...
View ArticleRoad Safety: switch to cycling to keep others safe
Rachel Aldred and James Woodcock write about new research examining the risk posed to other road users by particular types of transport. This post was originally published in The Conversation.Analysis...
View ArticleThe Healthy Food Act – Bennett Prospect Prize 2019/20
Dr Oliver Mytton was selected as a finalist for the 2019/2020 The Bennett Prospect Prize for Public Policy for this essay on how a Healthy Food Act could improve the health of the UK. The Bennett...
View ArticleFood insecurity in the UK – why we need a new normal
Amy Yau, Jean Adams & Martin WhiteHeadlines on ‘Food Bank Britain’ have featured increasingly in our newspapers since the global financial crash in 2008, documenting the struggle of many people who...
View ArticleSevero Ochoa Webinars: The impacts of active transport
A multidisciplinary research and practice fieldOn Wednesday 3 June the MRC Epidemiology Unit, in collaboration with ISGlobal and RMIT University, will host two webinars, which explore the state of the...
View ArticleMore evidence that walking or cycling to work associated with reduced risk of...
A study of over 300,000 commuters in England and Wales has found that those who walk, cycle and travel by train to work are at reduced risk of early death or illness compared with those who commute by...
View ArticleCycling and walking to work lowers risk of cancer, heart disease and death –...
In this article for The Conversation, Dr Richard Patterson from the MRC Epidemiology Unit and Dr Anthony Laverty from Imperial College London discuss research highlighting the health benefits of active...
View ArticleCEDAR contributes to the Food Foundation’s Broken Plate 2020
Report on the State of the Nation’s Food SystemCEDAR researchers have contributed data, evidence and perspectives to the Food Foundation’s 2020 update of The Broken Plate, their report on the state of...
View ArticleRestricting unhealthy food advertising on TV could reduce number of...
New research suggests that unhealthy food advertising on television before the 9pm watershed is responsible for 1 in 22 cases of childhood obesity. Removing these adverts before 9pm, the intention of...
View ArticlePhD Studentships in Public Health Research (Diet and Physical Activity)
Opportunities for PhD studentships in Public Health Research (Diet and Physical Activity) are available at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. The studentships enable students to...
View ArticleMaking sense of the evidence in population health intervention research:...
CEDAR researchers and collaborators have recently published a paper in BMJ Global Health. Making sense of the evidence in population health intervention research: building a dry stone wall But why a...
View ArticleNew consortium funded to deliver systems research programme to transform...
CEDAR researchers are leading one of four multi-million pound interdisciplinary research programmes awarded funding to support the transformation of the UK food system.The research is being funded...
View ArticleSuccessive governments’ approach to obesity policies has destined them to...
Government obesity policies in England over the past three decades have largely failed because of problems with implementation, lack of learning from past successes or failures, and a reliance on...
View ArticleEnglish obesity policies have long been unfit for purpose, but they are...
In this article for The Conversation, CEDAR PhD student Dolly Theis discusses new insights into why successive government’s obesity policies in England over the past three decades have largely...
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