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.
̽»¨Ö±²¥process of ageing begins even before we are born, according to an international team of researchers led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge. In a study using rats to model pregnancy and fetal development, the researchers also found that providing mothers with antioxidants during pregnancy meant that their offspring aged more slowly in adulthood.
Children should be given more support to enable them to be more active during the winter, particularly at weekends, say researchers from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge. Their call comes in response to their findings that children are less active and spend more time sitting in autumn and winter compared to other times of the year.
̽»¨Ö±²¥current focus on financial crises in hospitals diverts attention from the crisis in general practice, argue Professor Martin Roland from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and GP Sir Sam Everington in an editorial published in ̽»¨Ö±²¥BMJ today.
Recent changes to UK healthcare policy intended to reduce the number of emergency hospital admissions are unlikely to be effective, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.
Advertisements featuring e-cigarettes with flavours such as chocolate and bubble gum are more likely to attract school children to buy and try e-cigarettes than those featuring non-flavoured e-cigarettes, according to new research published in the journal Tobacco Control.
An NIHR-funded study from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has raised questions about the widely-held assumption that most patients at the end of their lives prefer to die at home rather than a hospice or hospital.
Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your phone might even help you monitor your condition at home.
Almost one in four of the world’s cases of tuberculosis (TB) are in India and the disease is constantly adapting itself to outwit our medicines. Could the answer lie in targeting not the bacteria but its host, the patient?
© 2025 ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge