Egg consumption associated with better nutrition
Evaluating current egg consumption patterns: associations with diet quality, nutrition and health status in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey Sigrid Gibson* and Juliet Gray,
A simple cut-off for waist-to-height ratio (0·5) can act as an indicator for cardiometabolic risk: recent data from adults in the Health Survey for England
Sigrid Gibson1* and Margaret Ashwell The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has acknowledged the value of waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as an indicator for ‘early health risk’. We used recent UK data to explore whether a classification based on WHtR identifies more adults at cardiometabolic risk than the ‘matrix’ based on BMI and […]
Adults with normal BMI are at increased CVD risk . PNS 2019
The results are consistent with those from other studies, which have also reported that adults in the ‘healthy’ BMI range but with WHtR >=0.5, have increased levels of cardiometabolic risk factors. WHtR has the potential to be a simple indicator of the cardiometabolic risks associated with central adipose tissue. Its use in early screening would […]
A workshop on ‘Dietary sweetness: Is it an issue?’
A Wittekind, K Higgins, L McGale, C Schwartz, N S Stamataki, G K Beauchamp, A Bonnema, P Dussort, S Gibson, C de Graaf, J C G Halford, C F M Marsaux, R D Mattes, J McLaughlin, D J Mela, S Nicklaus, PJ Rogers, I A Macdonald, A workshop on ‘Dietary sweetness: Is it an issue?’, […]
What can the food industry do to reduce sugars ?
1. Gibson S, Ashwell M, Arthur J, Bagley L, Lennox A, Rogers PJ, et al. What can the food and drink industry do to help achieve the 5% free sugars goal? Perspect Public Health. 2017;137(4):237-47.
Change in children’s intakes and sources of free sugars since 1997
Free sugars intakes and sources among children aged 4-18 y were compared between 1997 NDNS (n1688) and NDNS 2008-2012 (n1687) by analysing original dietary records. Mean intakes of free sugars (% energy) among 4-18y olds fell by 10% (1.7 percentage points) between 1997 and 2008-2012 (mean 16.8% vs. 15.1%) P<0.001), with a larger fall of […]
Associations between free sugars and nutrient intakes among children and adolescents in the UK
British Journal of Nutrition (2016), 116, 1265–1274 doi:10.1017/S0007114516003184 Abstract This study explored associations between free sugars intake (using non-milk extrinsic sugars as proxy) and nutrient intakes among children aged 1·5–18 years in the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2008–2012. Dietary records were completed by 2073 children (95% completed 4 d). Mean free sugars intakes […]