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National Diet and Nutrition Survey
B. Bates,Alison Lennox,Gillian Swan,H. Henderson,S. Pigott,Bladimir Florez,Helen Selwood,Mark T Bush,Mary Day,Sakhi Dodhia,Melanie Farron-Wilson,Kevin Naylor,Joseph Shavila,Alison Tedstone,Maria Jennings,Andrea Marnoch,Anne Milne,Phil Morgan,Heather Peace,Gillian Purdon +19 more
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Before the beginning: Nutrition and lifestyle in the preconception period and its importance for future health
Judith Stephenson,Nicola Heslehurst,Jennifer Hall,Danielle A J M Schoenaker,Jayne Hutchinson,Janet E Cade,Lucilla Poston,Geraldine Barrett,Sarah Crozier,Mary Barker,Mary Barker,Kalyanaraman Kumaran,Kalyanaraman Kumaran,Chittaranjan S. Yajnik,Janis Baird,Janis Baird,Gita D. Mishra +16 more
TL;DR: A sharper focus on intervention before conception is needed to improve maternal and child health and reduce the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, and health professionals should be alerted to ways of identifying women who are planning a pregnancy.
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Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for water
TL;DR: This Opinion of the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition, and Allergies (NDA) deals with the setting of dietary reference values for water for specific age groups, and the same AIs as for adults are defined for the elderly.
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The economic burden of ill health due to diet, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol and obesity in the UK: an update to 2006–07 NHS costs
Peter Scarborough,P Bhatnagar,Kremlin Wickramasinghe,Steve Allender,Steve Allender,Charlie Foster,Mike Rayner +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that poor diet is a behavioural risk factor that has the highest impact on the budget of the NHS, followed by alcohol consumption, smoking and physical inactivity.
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Effects of lowering homocysteine levels with B vitamins on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cause-specific mortality: Meta-analysis of 8 randomized trials involving 37 485 individuals.
Robert Clarke,Jim Halsey,Sarah Lewington,Eva Lonn,Jane Armitage,JoAnn E. Manson,Kaare H. Bønaa,J D Spence,Ottar Nygård,Rex L. Jamison,John Michael Gaziano,Peter Guarino,David L.H. Bennett,F Mir,Richard Peto,Ryan L. Collins +15 more
TL;DR: Dietary supplementation with folic acid to lower homocysteine levels had no significant effects within 5 years on cardiovascular events or on overall cancer or mortality in the populations studied.
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Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK
Peter Scarborough,Paul N. Appleby,Anja Mizdrak,Adam D M Briggs,Ruth C. Travis,Kathryn E. Bradbury,Timothy J. Key +6 more
TL;DR: Dietary GHG emissions in self-selected meat-eaters are approximately twice as high as those in vegans, and it is likely that reductions in meat consumption would lead to reductions in dietaryGHG emissions.
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