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UPFs or HFSS?: Which are worse for our health?
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UPFs or HFSS?: Which are worse for our health?

Dr Duane Mellor
Dr Duane Mellor joins Journal Club to review two papers debating opposing arguments on whether the concept of “ultra-processed foods” helps or hinders messaging on how nutrition influences health.
60 minutes     Free  
Type 2 Diabetes: Improving blood glucose & liver fat without weight loss
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Type 2 Diabetes: Improving blood glucose & liver fat without weight loss

Dr Nicola Guess
Dr Nicola Guess joins Journal Club chair, Dr Caroline Childs, to review a randomised controlled trial exploring improvements in blood glucose control and liver fat in weight stable participants with T2D.
60 minutes     free  
The Veganuary Effect: Measuring the impact on sales of plant-based vs meat products
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The Veganuary Effect: Measuring the impact on sales of plant-based vs meat products

Dr Sue Reeves, RNutr
Dr Sue Reeves reviews a recently published natural experiment study looking at the impact of Veganuary on sales of plant-based vs meat products.
60 minutes     free  
Motivating or Stigmatising? Finding effective public health messaging
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Motivating or Stigmatising? Finding effective public health messaging

Professor Jane Ogden, Dr Caroline Childs
Professor Jane Ogden reviews a recently published qualitative think aloud study on the impact of public health messaging around COVID-19 & obesity
60 minutes     free  
Chrono-Nutrition in Practice
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Chrono-Nutrition in Practice

Dr Wendy Hall, Dr Caroline Childs
Dr Wendy Hall reviews a published report, from an online questionnaire, on factors influencing motivation to undertake time-restricted eating.
60 minutes     free  
Type 2 diabetes remission: Different journeys, same destination
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Type 2 diabetes remission: Different journeys, same destination

Professor Denise Robertson, Dr Caroline Childs
Denise Robertson joins Journal Club chair Dr Caroline Childs to unpick a new narrative review exploring dietary strategies for type 2 diabetes remission
60 minutes     Free  
Sweeteners and Cancer Risk: Unpicking the link
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Sweeteners and Cancer Risk: Unpicking the link

Duane Mellor, Dr Caroline Childs
Journal Club session with registered dietitian Duane Mellor discussing a study exploring the link between artificial sweeteners and cancer.
60 minutes     Free  
Vitamin D Status of the UK African-Caribbean Population
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Vitamin D Status of the UK African-Caribbean Population

Tai Ibitoye & Dr Caroline Childs
Tai Ibitoye joins Journal Club chair Dr Caroline Childs to explore a recently published paper on the vitamin D status of African and Caribbean populations in the UK.
60 minutes     Free  
Milk Intolerance in Adults
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Milk Intolerance in Adults

Dr Yvonne Jeanes, Dr Caroline Childs
Dr Yvonne Jeanes joins Journal Club chair Dr Caroline Childs to explore the strengths & limitations using clinical retrospective data to influence practice on milk intolerance in adults.
60 minutes     free  
Health before pregnancy to improve outcomes
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Health before pregnancy to improve outcomes

Dr Angela Flynn
Learn how to summarise the key messages around the importance of preconception health and the latest scientific evidence.
60 minutes     Free  
Diabetes No More: a dream coming true
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Diabetes No More: a dream coming true

Professor Mike Lean
At the end of this session you will be able to articulate simple messages which explain the nature of type 2 diabetes and its reversibility.
60 minutes     Free  
Decolonising weight management: ethnicity-related differences in obesity
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Decolonising weight management: ethnicity-related differences in obesity

Dr Fatima Perez de Heredia Benedicte
This session looks at data showing obesity disparities among different ethnicities, and how researchers overcome this barrier.
60 minutes     Free  

Welcome to MyNutriWeb Journal Club

MyNutriWeb Journal Club supports all health and food professionals, and related tutors and students, to ensure you use the strongest available nutrition evidence to inform your practice.

The forum enables those with an interest in nutrition research to connect and debate recent journal articles: the findings, pros and cons, and scientific and clinical value. Covering a variety of topics and paper types, the sessions also include tools and techniques to help best understand and appraise the publications. These skills are critically important for all health and food professionals, whatever your sector, to help identify whether research is meeting rigorous scientific standards and is conducted with integrity.

Journal Club is facilitated by the award-winning Dr Caroline Childs, Associate Professor in Nutritional Sciences within Medicine at the University of Southampton, who truly accommodates for all levels of skill. With a different guest expert every time, the open access papers are shared in advance to read and prepare questions for discussion, where possible.

The live sessions take place every second Tuesday of the month, 8–9pm (with the exception of August and December). Within a week of viewing the full event, attendees receive a link to the recording, relevant resources, a reflective practice form and a certificate of attendance for your CPD records.

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DR CAROLINE CHILDS, JOURNAL CLUB CHAIR

Each session will be chaired by Dr Caroline Childs, award winning Dr Caroline Childs, Associate Professor in Nutritional Sciences within Medicine at the University of Southampton.

She received student-nominated awards for ‘most engaging lecturer’ and ‘best pastoral support’ and a colleague-nominated award for teaching excellence. Dr Childs is a Nutrition Society Ambassador and a South East Regional Representative for the Association for Nutrition.

As she says, “Developing skills in critical appraisal is an essential part of being a competent nutrition professional – whether you’re a dietitian, nutritionist or other professional specialising in nutrition.”