The Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolic Diseases group focuses on dietary and physical activity strategies for the prevention and management of chronic metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
With an emphasis on clinical nutrition and physical activity, this group aims to assess the efficacy and effectiveness of lifestyle interventions as holistic multimodal interventions, which can ultimately be translated into practice, promoting behaviour change and optimising metabolic health outcomes. Our group has expertise in dietary and physical activity assessment, clinical trials, designing and examining the efficacy of various dietary and physical activity interventions, and real-world implementation of these interventions.
This group covers:
- Designing and implementing dietary and physical activity interventions for clinical trials
- Developing interventions that include dietary modification of whole diet or individual foods
- Monitoring and assessing adherence to dietary and physical activity interventions in the clinical context
- Designing interventions that include robust assessment of clinical outcomes including anthropometric, metabolic biomarkers, haemodynamic, and other clinical outcomes (e.g. clinical algorithms and hepatic outcomes)
- Understanding what influences dietary intake and physical activity in individuals with chronic disease
- Understanding the barriers and enablers of sustainable interventions for individuals with chronic disease
- Translating research into evidence-based practice for healthcare practitioners and policy makers through implementation science