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Nutrition Research

This section of the website provides access to research and evidence relating to the impact of nutrition on health and current best practice.

Coronary Heart Disease

 

Overweight in childhood, adolescence and adulthood and cardiovascular risk in later life: pooled analysis of three British birth cohorts
Park MH et al. PLoS One. 2013; 8(7): e70684

Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of prospective studies
Strazzullo et al, British Medical Journal, 339:b4567, 2009.

Wholegrain Cereals for Coronary Heart Disease  
Kelly SAM et al, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2007

Cancer

Red Meat Consumption and Mortality - Results From 2 Prospective Cohort Studies
Pan A, Sun Q, Bernstein AM et al, March 12 2012, Archives of Internal Medicine,
 
Role of Diet in the Development of Cancer
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 1998

General

 
A gender-sensitised weight loss and healthy living programme for overweight and obese men delivered by Scottish Premier League football clubs (FFIT): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Hunt et al, The Lancet, 2014 (Early Online Publication)
 
Nutrition economics – food as an ally of public health
Lenoir-Wijnkoop etc al, British Journal of Nutrition, Vol 109, Issue 5, pp 777-784, March 2013
 
 
 
Worldwide Fund for Nature, 2009 
 
Defra, 2009 
 
The Nutritional Wellbeing of the British Population
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2008
 
Food Standards Agency, 2008
 
The role of portion sizes in our diet
Food Standards Agency, 2008

Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases
World Health Organisation, 2003

Associate Parliamentary Forum Report Considering Links between Diet and Behaviour
Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Forum, 2008  

Nutrient and Micronutrients

Nutrition Guidelines for Europe
European Food Safety Authority, 2011

Folic Acid Audit
National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS), 2008

Food Standards Agency Consumer Qualitative Research on Fats
The People Partnership, 2007

Update on Vitamin D
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2007

Report on Folate and Disease Prevention
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2006

Review of Dietary Advice on Vitamin A
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2005

Advice on Fish Consumption. Benefits and Risks
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2004

Salt and Health Report 
Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2003

Dietary Fats: Nutrition Briefing Paper  
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 1999

Children

Understanding the relationship between food environments, deprivation and childhood overweight and obesity: Evidence from a cross sectional England-wide study
Cetateanu, A and Jones, A. (2014) Health and Place. 27, Pg 68-76
 
 
School Food Research: building the evidence base for policy
Nelson M and Breda J, Public Health Nutrition (In Press) 2013

A systematic review of the effect of diet and dietary change on learning education and performance of children of relevance to UK schools 
Welsh Assembly Government, 2006

A Systematic Review of the Effect of Nutrition, Diet and Dietary Change on Learning, Education and Performance of Children of Relevance to UK Schools  
University of Teesside, 2006

Breastfeeding

National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence, 2008

Breastfeeding for Longer – What Works? Systematic Review Summary
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2005

Effectiveness of Public Health Interventions to Promote the Duration of Breastfeeding. Systematic Review part 1  
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2005

Effectiveness of Public Health Interventions to Promote the Duration of Breastfeeding. Systematic Review part 2  
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2005

Effectiveness of Public Health Interventions to Promote the Initiation of Breastfeeding
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2003

Prevention of Low Birth Weight: Assessing the Effectiveness of Interventions  
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2003

Older People

Older People Living in the Community - Nutritional Needs, Barriers and Interventions: a Literature Review
Scottish Government, December 2009.

Keep Fit For Life: Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Older People
World Health Organisation, 2002

Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

Opportunities For and Barriers to Good Nutritional Health in Ethnic Minority Communities  
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 1997

Agriculture

A CAP on Health? The Impact of the EU Common Agricultural on Public Health
Faculty of Public Health, 2007


Last updated: 04/03/2014