Expertise
- Obesity, health impacts and practical weight management
- Social and behavioural determinants of obesity eg. Food choice, physical activity
- Molecular/ Genetic regulation of eating and body weight
- Clinical trials of pharmacological/dietary/lifestyle interventions
- Sustainability and environmental changes
- Economics and health-economics of generating behavioural change
- Social marketing, policy impact assessment
- Measurement methods and validation for population surveys
- Complex community interventions
- Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods
- Non-randomised evaluations
- Continuous improvement methodology
CTRCD members have made a number of important contributions.
Following suggestions that dietary fibre might reduce diabetes, coronary heart disease and some cancers nearly 40 years ago experimental research was undertaken in humans. As a result of epidemiological, clinical and experimental data it was possible to refine the role of dietary fibre in the prevention and treatment of diabetes. This information has now been incorporated into universally accepted recommendations.