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We are looking for writers who enjoy the methods section. If you can read a trial properly and then explain it to someone over a coffee, we want to hear from you.
What we are looking for
Four shapes of article cover most of what we commission.
A claim taken apart
Pick something repeated everywhere, trace it back to the study it came from, and tell readers what the study actually found. The more quotable the myth, the better.
A literature walk-through
Several trials, one question, and an honest verdict about how confident anyone should be. Include the trials that disagree with your conclusion.
Practical food writing with a spine
Recipes and meal strategies are welcome when the nutrition reasoning behind them is explicit and sourced. Not just macros in a table.
A careful explainer
Digestion, satiety signalling, training adaptation — mechanisms explained so a curious reader with no background follows every step.
House style, briefly
Plain British English, short sentences, second person where it helps. Link every substantive claim to its primary source, and mark each one as strong, moderate or weak evidence — that grading is part of the draft, not something an editor adds afterwards.
Say when the evidence is thin. An article that ends “we genuinely do not know yet” is a perfectly good article here. Our editorial policy sets out the standards your draft will be checked against, including the conflict-of-interest rules.
What is not for us
- Anything that promotes, reviews or links to a supplement you have a financial interest in.
- Cleanses, detoxes, and “toxin” framing. Your liver is already employed.
- Weight-loss copy that leans on shame, before-and-after bodies, or food moralising.
- Personal-experience pieces with no evidence base — we love the voice, we still need the sources.
- Pieces built from a single new study, pitched as though it overturns a field.
- Drafts produced by a language model. We check, and it reads obviously.
What we pay
Placeholder — rate to be confirmed
Commissioned articles are paid. We have not published the rate here yet, so rather than guess: ask in your pitch and we will quote a flat fee per commissioned piece before you write a word.
- Fees are agreed in writing before commissioning, as a flat amount for the finished piece — never per click or per view.
- A commissioned article that we decide not to run is still paid for in full.
- You keep your name on it, and you keep the right to republish elsewhere after an agreed window.
How to pitch
One email, one idea. Put the question in the subject line and cover the six things below in the body — no attachments or finished drafts needed.
The question
One sentence. What will the reader know after this article that they did not know before?
Your angle
Three or four sentences on the argument, and what makes it different from the first page of search results.
Your key sources
Two to four studies, reviews or guidelines you intend to build on, with links. This is the part we read most closely.
Length and shape
An estimated word count and any structure you have in mind — most Diat features land between 1,200 and 2,000 words.
Who you are
Relevant background or qualifications if you have them, plus two writing samples. Unqualified but rigorous is fine; vague is not.
Your declarations
Any financial interest, advisory role or affiliation touching the subject. Declaring something rarely rules you out. Hiding it does.
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We are setting up a monitored pitch inbox. Please keep your idea for now; the verified address will appear here when it is ready. We will not claim to receive pitches before then.
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