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*Geek Box: Beta-Cells and Diabetes

*Geek Box: Beta-Cells & Diabetes Beta-cells of the pancreas release insulin in response to increases in blood glucose after a meal. Although insulin resistance, i.e.,...

*Geek Box: Circadian Rhythms

*Geek Box: Circadian Rhythms What are ‘circadian rhythms’? The term ‘circadian’ is derived from the Latin ‘circa’, meaning ‘around’, and ‘diem’, meaning ‘day’: ‘around the day’. Circadian rhythms provide an...

*Geek Box: DWL

*Geek Box: Doubly-Labelled Water Doubly-labelled water has been utilised in human studies since the early 1980’s, as a reliable method for assessing total energy expenditure...

*Geek Box: Correlation, Confounding, & Control

*Geek Box: Confounders, Correlations, and Control There is a tendency when it comes to interpreting epidemiological findings to dismiss any related factor between an exposure and...

*Geek Box: Melatonin

*Geek Box: Melatonin Hearing terms like ‘circadian phase’ or ‘biological night’ can be confusing, particularly where we think of time usually by reference to the...

*Geek Box: Area Under the Curve

*Geek Box: Area Under the Curve If you read research, you’ll come across the commonly used term ‘area under the curve’, or the ‘AUC’. Imagine you had...

*Geek Box: ALA and DHA as EFAs

*Geek Box: ALA and DHA as Essential Fatty Acids Up to 60% of the brain’s dry weight is comprised of fat, of which up to...

*Geek Box: A Priori Indices in Nutritional Epidemiology

*Geek Box: Dietary Pattern Scores Most approaches to dietary assessment in nutritional epidemiology focus on foods and nutrients as the exposure of interest. However, there...

*Geek Box: Block Randomisation

*Geek Box: Block Randomisation The most basic form of randomising subjects is simple randomization, which involves dividing subjects at random to allocation of either treatment...

*Geek Box: ITT Analysis

*Geek Box: Intention to Treat Analysis In a randomised controlled trial, it is important to match both arms of the trial to ensure that one...

*Geek Box: Ad Libitum Diets

*Geek Box: Ad Libitum Diets What does ‘ad libitum’ mean in research? The Latin for “at one’s pleasure”, the formal meaning of it is as...

*Geek Box: Foods vs. Formulas

*Geek Box: Foods vs. Formulas One issue facing nutrition is when the outcome of interest is a nutrient, for example saturated fat, or dietary sugars,...