It required a major concerted and systematic research effort to bring this missing part of the picture into view.

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If we leave the GFC aside there has been a systematic reduction in relative research and development output over the last 15 years.

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The first piece ( Research: The evidence underpinning sports performance products: a systematic assessment) has researchers analyzing sport drink advertising and identifying an astonishing 431 performance enhancing claims for 104 different products.

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Rather than initiating research, it is designed to evaluate existing studies, in a process known as systematic review.

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