Research – Diet and Health Today

Summary * This post introduces a technique called Mendelian Randomisation (MR). * We are very familiar with the limitations of

The Benedict weight loss study (1917)

Introduction As promised last week, this week’s note reviews a classic study – the Francis Benedict study of metabolism from

Introduction This is the 700th Monday note. The first one was written in January 2011, although I had been doing

Introduction Whenever we see a headline about diet and health in the news, we should ask ourselves ‘does it make

Introduction to NICE There is a public organisation in the UK called The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

This week, I’ve focused on an article from the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Global Effect of Modifiable Risk

Zoë chats with Bill Padley about how research papers are written – looking into epidemiological studies and the games played