{"id":1094,"date":"2015-04-29T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:24:26","slug":"prof-jeremy-nicholson-involved-in-major-study-on-colon-cancer-risk-for-americans-and-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2015\/04\/29\/prof-jeremy-nicholson-involved-in-major-study-on-colon-cancer-risk-for-americans-and-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Jeremy Nicholson involved in major study on colon cancer risk for Americans and Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/04\/Food-beans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1095\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2015\/04\/Food-beans-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Food beans\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/j.nicholson\">Prof Jeremy Nicholson<\/a> was the team leader from Imperial College on a study to investigate the possible roles of diet and gut bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>An international team including scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Imperial College London carried out a study with a group of 20 African American volunteers and another group of 20 participants from rural South Africa. The two groups swapped diets under tightly controlled conditions for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this via the coverage below and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02pr0xm\">BBC World Service interview<\/a>\u00a0which features Prof Nicholson\u00a0(32 minutes in).<\/p>\n<p>Guardian:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/apr\/28\/bowel-cancer-risk-may-be-reduced-by-rural-african-diet-study-finds\">Bowel cancer risk may be reduced by rural African diet, study finds<\/a><br \/>\nImperial:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/newsandeventspggrp\/imperialcollege\/newssummary\/news_28-4-2015-12-6-31\">Diet swap has dramatic effects on colon cancer risk for Americans and Africans<\/a><br \/>\nBBC:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-32494846\">Diet swap experiment reveals junk food&#8217;s harm to gut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Jeremy Nicholson was the team leader from Imperial College on a study to investigate the possible roles of diet and gut bacteria. An international team including scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Imperial College London carried out a study with a group of 20 African American volunteers and another group of 20 participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}