The Epic Oxford research project website

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Hi Everyone;

 

I thought y'all might be interested in this website:

http://www.epic-oxford.org/

 

Following is the introduction on the website:

 

EPIC (the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and

Nutrition) was initiated in 1992 and is the largest detailed

study of diet and health ever undertaken. It involves over

500,000 people in 10 European countries - Britain, Denmark,

France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain

and Sweden. It is coordinated by the World Health Organization

and supported by the European Union and national funding

agencies. By studying very many people in different countries

with differing diets, and by using carefully designed and tested

questionnaires, EPIC should produce more specific information

than previous studies about the effects of diet on long-term

health.

 

EPIC-Oxford is one of two EPIC cohorts in the UK, the

other being EPIC-Norfolk. (A " cohort " is a large group of people

who have joined a study and whose health is being followed). The

EPIC-Oxford cohort was recruited between 1993 and 1999. The

strategy for establishing the EPIC-Oxford cohort was to recruit

participants with a wide range of diets by targeting vegetarians

as well as participants from the general UK population. As such

EPIC-Oxford is of great scientific value to the EPIC study as a

whole, because the diets of vegetarians, and especially vegans,

differ substantially from those of meat-eaters and this range in

diets makes it easier to detect relationships between nutrition

and health.