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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  
Can probiotics reduce gastrointestinal complaints in athletes?
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Can probiotics reduce gastrointestinal complaints in athletes?

Connor Parker
Expert speaker, Connor Parker, talks through a paper on gastrointestinal symptoms and probiotics in athletes.
60 minutes     Free  
Effectiveness of workplace wellness programmes – systematic reviews and meta-analyses
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Effectiveness of workplace wellness programmes – systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Dr Sue Reeves
This session's paper considers the effectiveness of workplace wellness programmes on dietary habits, weight and cardiometabolic health.
60 minutes     Free  
Time-restricted eating for obesity management
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Time-restricted eating for obesity management

Dr Fatima Perez de Heredia, Dr Caroline Childs
This sessions shares tools and techniques to help you best understand and appraise a recent research paper on obesity management.
60 minutes     free  
Can a mobile app improve nutrition for women before and during pregnancy
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Can a mobile app improve nutrition for women before and during pregnancy

Dr Sarah Hillier
The May 2020 article exploring the effectiveness of the Smarter Pregnancy app is discussed by Dr Sarah E Hillier.
60 minutes     Free  
The common cold – could probiotics help?
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The common cold – could probiotics help?

Dr Gemma Walton
In this session Dr Gemma Walton discusses Michael de Vrese’s 2006 paper around probiotics and the common cold.
60 minutes     Free  
Energy content of frequently purchased restaurant meals
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Energy content of frequently purchased restaurant meals

Dr Sue Reeves
Dr Sue Reeves discusses Dr Susan B Roberts’ 2018 paper 'Measured energy content of frequently purchased restaurant meals'.
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.”