Invitation to EU Study

Through the web you can reach the whole world. Here I am, in my little Corfu kitchen, working on my site, sorting out my thoughts and ideas. You can imagine my joy when I got this email from the Newcastle University in England.

"Dear Eva

I was looking for pages with a well-informed approach to weight management, andwas positively impressed with yours. I am a scientist investigating the basicmechanisms behind the relations between food and health, and have found thatsurprisingly often the scientific community does not see the wood for all thetrees, it tends to cling to old paradigms long after common sense and practicalexperience has shown them to be wrong. So I look in other places, such as thenet, for inspiration to new research that can take things forward. Presently weare preparing a proposal for a research programme to combine what is knownabout brain mechanisms of addiction with what is known about the drivers offood intake, and I noticed that much of what you write on your website matchesour suspicion of the connections, even though there is very little in theestablished scientific literature about this.

So I would like to get in contact with you to find out if we can support eachother. In the short term (a week or so) I am interested in knowing what sources(including own observations) you have used to reach the conclusions youpresent, and if there are things you would like to suggest that we include inthe research project. If you are interested and it is relevant for you, I wouldalso like to invite you to participate in a stakeholder group for the project,consisting of representatives for organisations and companies that areinterested in the subject and would like to be informed about our researchresults as they happen, and/or implement the ideas it their own work. Whetherit is relevant for you would depend on what your role and interest in the topicis, and which country you live in, I could not find any information about thison your website.

If this sounds interesting to you, please let me know and tell me how I canbest communicate with you, by telephone, e-mail or otherwise.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Best regards

Kirsten

Dr Kirsten Brandt, Senior Lecturer,
Food Quality and Health Research Group
School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
Newcastle University, Agriculture Building,
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom"