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Open AccessThe challenges of interventions to promote healthier food in independent takeaways in England: qualitative study of intervention deliverers’ views
Much of the food available from takeaways, pubs and restaurants particularly that sold by independent outlets, is unhealthy and its consumption is increasing. These food outlets are therefore important potenti...
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Open AccessDesigning equitable workplace dietary interventions: perceptions of intervention deliverers
Workplaces are a good setting for interventions that aim to support workers in achieving a healthier diet and body weight. However, little is known about the factors that impact on the feasibility and implemen...
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Open AccessA description of interventions promoting healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away, or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets in England: a systematic map** and evidence synthesis
Ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away or to be delivered) sold by food outlets are often more energy dense and nutrient poor compared with meals prepared at home, making them a reasonable target for publ...
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Open AccessSearching and synthesising ‘grey literature’ and ‘grey information’ in public health: critical reflections on three case studies
Grey literature includes a range of documents not controlled by commercial publishing organisations. This means that grey literature can be difficult to search and retrieve for evidence synthesis. Much knowled...
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Open AccessComparison of sodium content of meals served by independent takeaways using standard versus reduced holed salt shakers: cross-sectional study
Takeaway food has a relatively poor nutritional profile. Providing takeaway outlets with reduced-holed salt shakers is one method thought to reduce salt use in takeaways, but effects have not been formally tes...
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Open AccessExploring the dynamics of a free fruit at work intervention
The workplace has been identified as an ideal setting for health interventions. However, few UK-based workplace intervention studies have been published. Fewer still focus on the practicalities and implication...
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Open AccessThe effectiveness of workplace dietary interventions: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
The lack of evidence of the role of workplaces as settings for behaviour change delivery and the failure to recognise and address the complexity of the work environment has been acknowledged. This systematic r...
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Open AccessFrequency and socio-demographic correlates of eating meals out and take-away meals at home: cross-sectional analysis of the UK national diet and nutrition survey, waves 1–4 (2008–12)
Food prepared out-of-home tends to be less healthful than food prepared at home, with a positive association between frequency of consumption and both fat intake and body fatness. There is little current data ...
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Exploring urban parks and their peripheral food environments using a case study approach: Young people and obesogenic environments
Childhood overweight and obesity and physical inactivity are a major public health concern globally. This observational area-level case study examined and evaluated the attributes of two urban parks and 400 m ...
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Open AccessThe effectiveness of interventions targeting specific out-of-home food outlets: protocol for a systematic review
Eating out of the home has been associated with higher intakes of energy and fat and lower micronutrient intakes, as well as the development of obesity. Out-of-home food outlets (OHFOs) and the foods obtained ...
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Open AccessCreating ‘obesogenic realities’; do our methodological choices make a difference when measuring the food environment?
The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to objectively measure ‘obesogenic’ food environment (foodscape) exposure has become common-place. This increase in usage has coincided with the development of...
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Open AccessThe foodscape: classification and field validation of secondary data sources across urban/rural and socio-economic classifications in England
In recent years, alongside the exponential increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity, there has been a change in the food environment (foodscape). This research focuses on methods used to measure an...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a series of patient information leaflets for constipation using a range of cognitive interview techniques: LIFELAX
The aim of the LIFELAX randomised controlled trial (diet and lifestyle vs. laxatives in the management of chronic constipation) is to develop and evaluate a cost effective intervention to promote diet and lifesty...
