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Olivia Righton, Patrick Egan, Jean M. Russell, Toni M. Cook and Margo Elizabeth Barker
This paper aims to evaluate the dietary advice for cardiovascular health in UK running magazines.
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Purpose
This paper aims to evaluate the dietary advice for cardiovascular health in UK running magazines.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative and quantitative content analysis was carried out on 12 issues (2014/2015) of Men’s Running (MR), Runner’s World (RW) and Women’s Running (WR). Coding of content took place into three themes: diet information, format and cardiovascular health.
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Dietary advice comprised 17, 18 and 21 per cent of content in MR, RW and WR, respectively. A Mediterranean dietary pattern (e.g. fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds, wholegrains and legumes, oily fish) was recommended for cardiovascular health and lowering of BP and plasma cholesterol. Single components of this dietary pattern were emphasised combined with advice to alter fat intake and increase intake of antioxidant nutrients and polyphenols, while advice to restrict salt was scarce. There was minimal emphasis on weight control. Information was often presented as single-page compilations of multiple headlines and snippets. Lexical imperatives and magisterial vocabulary connoted learned expertise and citation of experts and journals was common.
Research limitations/implications
Future research may qualitatively investigate how readers interpret and make use of the nutrition information and dietary advice provided in these magazines. A critical question would be to address whether these dietary messages lead to cardio-protective dietary behaviour.
Practical implications
Improved journalistic reporting of emerging nutritional science is also needed. Magazine editors and journalists need to follow reporting guidelines for science and provide more nuanced information.
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This research is the first to describe the content and style of dietary content for cardiovascular health in running magazines.
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The Minister of Technology, Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn, has appointed Captain A. A. Murphy, R.N., as Director of Guided Weapons Research and Development (Naval) Branch in the…
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The Minister of Technology, Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn, has appointed Captain A. A. Murphy, R.N., as Director of Guided Weapons Research and Development (Naval) Branch in the Ministry of Technology. He succeeds Captain K. A. W. Pilgrim, R.N., who is returning to the Ministry of Defence.
R.D. Hinshelwood and Craig Fees
The purpose of this paper is to present a previously unpublished letter from children’s therapeutic community pioneer David Wills to his younger colleague in the field, Robert…
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The purpose of this paper is to present a previously unpublished letter from children’s therapeutic community pioneer David Wills to his younger colleague in the field, Robert Laslett, which attempts to define and summarise a lifetime’s understanding of the essence of a therapeutic environment. This raises concepts and issues of relevance to current theory and practice in therapeutic environments.
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The authors contextualise the 1977 letter from David Wills before presenting it verbatim, with clarifying annotations relating to people and events. They then analyse and discuss the fundamental arguments presented in the letter, with relevance to current thinking and practice.
Findings
The approach presented by David Wills to his younger colleague is deeply challenging to current concepts and understandings of therapeutic environments and the role in the therapeutic task of subjectivity and “attitude of mind”. The view is taken that this presents “a great question for wide debate, right now”.
Research limitations/implications
Very little historical/analytical research has taken place into the experiences, thinking and practice of those who have built the diverse fields of therapeutic communities and environments, not least because history disturbs and challenges the present. This paper opens a small window on the vast resources which are available, and indicates something of the rich potential for debate and practical challenge Experts by Experience pose to living and, hopefully, learning practitioners to day.
Practical implications
Questions are raised: the debate they engender should eventuate into clearer, better grounded, more radical, and more effective practice.
Social implications
This letter challenges assumptions about the role and nature of the “therapeutic attitude” and the place of subjectivity, with profound implications for the therapeutic enterprise itself, and the organisation of therapeutic environments, as well as policy, assessment and regulation regimes.
Originality/value
The use of previously unpublished archive material opens living questions to examination from a different perspective, widening the debate to include voices of expertise and experience which are generally, consciously or unconsciously, excluded from it. Presenting the letter in its whole, and not excerpted as supporting evidence, allows the voice of expertise by experience to contribute directly to discussion and debate; unbalancing and enriching it.
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When it comes to capital spending, British industry's habit of departmentalising budgets is reflected in piecemeal acquisition of materials handling equipment, says John Williams…
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When it comes to capital spending, British industry's habit of departmentalising budgets is reflected in piecemeal acquisition of materials handling equipment, says John Williams of the Materials Handling Centre. Yet an efficient handling system is as beneficial to warehousing and distribution as it is to production.
Board appointments at Vacu‐Blast Surface engineering specialists, Vacu‐Blast Ltd., have appointed Mr. Roger Brickwood as sales director. This position was formerly held by Mr. F…
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Board appointments at Vacu‐Blast Surface engineering specialists, Vacu‐Blast Ltd., have appointed Mr. Roger Brickwood as sales director. This position was formerly held by Mr. F. H. ‘Bill’ Chaffer, who has relinquished the post in order to concentrate full‐time on developing the interests of BTR sister company, Impact Finishers Ltd., of which he is managing director. Mr. Brickwood was previously sales manager of Vacu‐Blast Ltd.