Topic description and stories

Tomatoes on the vine. Banner image: Day 124 - Tomatoes, by Nina Matthews via Flickr.

‘Tomato pill’ improves function of blood vessels

10 Jun 2014

A daily supplement of an extract found in tomatoes may improve the function of blood vessels in patients with cardiovascular disease, according to...

Read more
One of the pre-Dynastic Egyptians analysed in the project

Biographies in bone

26 Mar 2014

The diet and journeys taken by those who lived in the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago are being analysed through their teeth and bones.

Read more

Fat, fitness and food… The latest research brought to light

17 Mar 2014

What effects if any do our diets have on health? How can we find health patterns in the population? What’s the truth about fat? What keeps people fit...

Read more

Home made yoghurt

Yoghurt cuts risk of type 2 diabetes

06 Feb 2014

Eating more yoghurt can reduce the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes, researchers at Cambridge have found.

Read more
Cookery class - March 2009

Meals for one: how eating alone affects the health of the elderly

19 Oct 2013

EPIC-Norfolk, a long-term study of health and ageing that recently celebrated its 20th birthday, provides researchers with a wealth of data. Annalijn...

Read more

A landmark study of health and lifestyle celebrates its 20th birthday

09 Oct 2013

A landmark longitudinal study of health in the community will celebrate its 20th anniversary in Norwich tomorrow (10 October). The research, which...

Read more

Want to stick with your diet? Better have someone hide the chocolate

25 Jul 2013

Study indicates that removing a temptation is more effective than relying on willpower alone.

Read more
Illustration by Sarah Castor-Perry for 'Where Did Humans Go During the Last Ice Age?'

Big ideas in small packages

20 Mar 2013

A video project demonstrates how academic research can be communicated in an engaging format that puts across complex ideas in a nutshell.

Read more
Mexican Howler Monkey

High stress levels found in monkeys forced to spend more time foraging

24 Jan 2013

New research shows that disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and that the additional time and energy required to...

Read more

Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, on the Kenya-Somalia border. The Horn of Africa frequently experiences severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people have trekked to Dadaab seeking food, water, shelter and safety.

Feeding seven billion

21 Nov 2012

With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...

Read more
Glass of wine

Nudging consumers towards better health

25 May 2012

It seems at once the simplest and most complex of health problems: by eating healthily, not smoking, being more active and cutting down on alcohol...

Read more
Couch Potatoing

Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity: understanding these silent killers

14 May 2012

Population-based interventions for tackling unhealthy diet and physical inactivity could save millions of lives. An ambitious research programme is...

Read more

Pages