Apparently, people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) tend to lead increasingly sedentary lives as their condition progresses. In a Chilean trial patients with COPD who took part in a three month individualised programme to promote an increase in physical activity were randomised to a standard programme of encouragement alone or a pedometer based programme.… Read More
Milk Intake: What’s the Link with Fractures & Mortality?
Research Paper Title Milk Intake and Risk of Mortality and Fractures in Women and Men: Cohort Studies. Background The purpose of this research was to examine whether high milk consumption is associated with mortality and fractures in women and men. Methods This was a cohort study based on three counties in central Sweden. Two large Swedish… Read More
Want a Tastier Meal?
Cooks make tastier food when they can see their customers. Researchers set up four scenarios in a real cafeteria for two weeks. In the first, diners and cooks could not view one another; In the second, the diners could see the cooks; In the third, the cooks could see the diners; and In the fourth,… Read More
Campaign is Launched to Reverse the Trend of Diminishing Activity
An article by Nigel Hawkes for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), published on 24 October 2014: “Hold meetings standing up,” urged Kevin Fenton of Public Health England at the launch of a new drive to make Britons more active. “Or hold them while taking a walk,” he added, claiming that this was already common practice… Read More
Follow the (Paternity) Leader
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programmes. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. The researchers overcome these identification issues in the context of paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design. In… Read More
Agency Workers & Employment Status for Tax Purposes
Those of you who employ workers through an agency should be aware of new legislation brought in by the HMRC. This legislation stipulates that any worker supplied through an intermediary (such as an agency) will be treated as “employed” for tax purposes. The aim is to tackle employers exploiting self-employment status to avoid paying National… Read More
Face Time Is Money
Oxford Economics findings show that you are twice as likely to convert a prospect into a client with an in-person meeting.
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