Evaluation of interventions in online grocery shopping for sustainability and health

Thijs van Rens Warwick Economics CAGE @ Warwick Food GRP Wolfson Institute of Population Health Pete Scarborough OxPrimaryCareSci Martin White 💙🇪🇺🇺🇦 MRC Epidemiology Unit Sustained Economic and Social Research Council Defra UK

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On April 1, 2024 the Observatory for Urban Health in Belo Horizonte (OSUBH) hosted a second GDAR participatory workshop, focusing on the various challenges and resilience strategies related to risks and climate events in Belo Horizonte, and their effects on health.

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In a new paper in Nature Genetics, scientists from MRC Epidemiology Unity, University of Cambridge, report a new obesity gene--BSN (nature.com/articles/s4158…). Loss of function mutation in BSN causes an extreme form of obesity that is reminiscent of the weight gain associated with

New paper from Matt Keeble exploring public acceptability of local planning restrictions on new takeaways around schools. 51% of adults support, 37% neutral, 9% opposed. Thus new proposals are unlikely to be met with substantial public disapproval tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Had a great time presenting at #DUKPC24 and some fruitful discussions afterwards. Great to see all the research on #diabetes in the UK, and particularly great to see the involvement of those with lived experience. Thanks for organising Diabetes UK

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This month, discover how fungal communities that support #grassland habitats, the meadow species growing at the #garden and how we can help to conserve and restore our native grasslands: bit.ly/440QoL8

I'll be presenting our research on the Glucose-Lowering through Weight Management (GLoW) trial tomorrow at #DUKPC24 in London. The trial evaluated an intervention with tailored diabetes education & behavioural weight management delivered by WeightWatchers

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All are welcome to next Bradford Hill Seminar by Prof Cath Mercer UCL Global Health

📅 15 May, 13:00 UK time
Hybrid - Cambridge & online (bit.ly/3UlBdsM)

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Today at 1.15 PM (UK) Dr Dan Jackson Newcastle University joins us for a hybrid seminar to discuss:

'The role of wearables and reproducible science in personalised medicine'.

Register to attend online at mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Tomorrow Dr Dan Jackson Newcastle University will join us for a hybrid seminar to discuss:

'The role of wearables and reproducible science in personalised medicine'.

🗓️17 April 2024
⏰1.15 PM

Online registration at mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-…

New paper led by Megan Polden from our evaluation of menu calorie labelling requirements in England. Big increase in outlets providing any labelling - from 21% pre to 80% post. But only 15% of outlets met all best practice criteria. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/4/e…

📢 Job opportunity - Senior Analyst West Midlands Combined Authority to support the new Population Health Improvement UK Network. Have you the data analysis expertise to help reduce health inequalities and improve health? Closing 23 April Ref:WMCA/TP/156/218 Details: careers.wmca.org.uk/jobs/job/Senio…

📢 Job opportunity closes Sunday 14 April - Health Improvement Officer Glasgow City Region for Enhancing Policy Modelling theme Population Health Improvement UK. As an Embedded Researcher help to find policies that reduce health inequality. #publichealth Ref:GLA11691 Details: myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasg…

'An important landmark in investigations of fasting'
How 7-day water-only fasting led to changes in >1,000 proteins, much of which were dissociated from the average 12.5 lb weight loss Nature Metabolism
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Plus, in a linked analysis, we found complementary evidence that local authorities adopting #takeaway management zones received fewer planning applications for takeaways and rejected a higher proportion of them.

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Great to see this The BMJ paper finally out. And congrats Coffee&Almonds 🐝 📝 for this first author paper 🙌🏿 MRC Epidemiology Unit Innovation Africa @UP Future Africa Platform UrbanBetter.science

Analysis by John Rahilly et al. finds that six years after 35 local authorities across England adopted #takeaway management zones around schools, 54% fewer outlets had opened than would have been expected.

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