Centre for Diet and Activity Research

Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) is one of five Centres of Excellence in Public Health Research funded through the UK Clinical Research Collaboration

People Eating Fresh FoodCentre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) is studying the factors that influence dietary and physical activity related behaviours, developing and evaluating public health interventions, and helping shape public health practice and policy by drawing on the expertise of a wide range of scientific disciplines.

The physical, social and economic world influences what we eat and how much we move around; these dietary and physical activity behaviours have an effect on our health, others around us and the wider environment.

CEDAR has established eight interconnected research programmes that look at dietary and physical activity behaviours in a number of different settings and across the life-course. These examine how the world in which we live shapes our behaviours, and therefore how we might target whole populations and systems to bring about a positive shift in our health.