Dr. Sean Wheatley, PhD – Research and Trainer in Public Health/25 November 2016 If you pick up today’s paper, it doesn’t matter which one, there will almost certainly be a dramatic health-related story. It seems like the media are constantly reporting a new miracle cure…
Read moreMatt Whitaker – Researcher and Trainer in Public Health/22 November 2016 Within the ‘Introduction to the four main dietary approaches’ blog I briefly mentioned how the energy balance theory has its limitations. This blog is going to explore this claim and hopefully convince you counting…
Read moreDr. Sean Wheatley, PhD – Researcher and Trainer in Public Health/21 November 2016 Pretty much every week during our blogs, and during the programmes themselves, we use the phrase “one size doesn’t fit all”. This might seem like a bit of a cliché, but in…
Read moreMatt Whitaker – Researcher and Trainer in Public Health/14 November 2016 As mentioned in a previous blog, this week I am going to introduce the four main dietary approaches adopted by people across the world. I am going to steer away from referring to these…
Read moreDr. Sean Wheatley, PhD - Researcher and Trainer in Public Health/9 November 2016 Today (Monday 14th November) is World Diabetes Day! Our normal weekly blog is also up (this week Matt looks at different dietary approaches, available here), but I’ve written a little something to mark the…
Read moreDr. Sean Wheatley, PhD – Research and Trainer in Public Health/7 November 2016 Many of you reading this may well have watched the recent BBC Panorama programme; “Diabetes: The Hidden Killer” (though please stick with me if you haven’t!). Working for a charity that provides…
Read moreMatt Whitaker – Research and Trainer in Public Health/25 October 2016 In a previous blog I mentioned how the current recommendations around dietary fat are not supported by a strong evidence base (1). This blog aims to address this and increase public knowledge of this…
Read moreDr. Sean Wheatley, PhD – Research and Trainer in Public Health/24 October 2016 Following on from “Ask for Evidence Part 1”, that looked at why we shouldn’t always take the stories we read as gospel (available here if you’ve not seen it), this article gives…
Read moreX-PERT Blog: Introducing X-PERT Heart Dr. Sean Wheatley, PhD – Research and Trainer in Public Health/17 October 2016 * NOTE: As with many things, plans change! Since this article was initially written (way back in 2016) a lot has happened here at X-PERT, with…
Read moreMatt Whitaker – Research and Trainer in Public Health/17 October 2016 As briefly mentioned in the previous blog ‘introducing X-PERT Heart’ this blog will be introducing the second programme in development and also due for launch at the 2017 X-PERT Audit & Awards Conference, X-PERT…
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