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- Nutrients from foods, not supplements, linked to better health outcomes
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- 75 years of Family Food
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- New Government obesity strategy launched
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- EFSA Publishes Draft Opinion on Tolerable Upper Intake Level for Dietary Sugars
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- UK Cross-Government Food Research and Innovation Strategy
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- Start Active, Stay Active: A report on physical activity for health from the four home countries’ Chief Medical Officers
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- Diet and nutrition survey of infants and young children (DNSIYC), 2011 results published.
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- Research Spotlight 2018 - Issue 4 - Coconut oil and blood lipids
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- Charcoal latte anybody? Health benefit or health myth?
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- To turmeric or not to turmeric...can it really prevent cancer?
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- To fast or not to fast – Ramadan and diabetes
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- Diet and CVD – it’s not all about cholesterol! The launch of the 2nd edition of the BNF Task Force on cardiovascular disease
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- Can a healthier diet improve depression?
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- Educating a new generation of foodies
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- One Hundred Ways to Fight Obesity
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- Eat more, lose weight!
- Consumers confused about low calorie sweeteners
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- Simple steps to a healthier old age
- Cooking made compulsory
- A quarter of UK secondary school children have no breakfast
- BDA and BNF welcome reformulation guidelines and new baseline data
- BNF responds to BJSM article on saturated fat and heart disease.
- A-Z of winter-warrior nutrients from the BNF
- Nutrition experts identify behaviours that support weight loss
- Christmas – a weighty workplace issue
- BNF launches a handy guide to get portion wise
- A healthy gut microbiome, watching your waist size and getting enough sleep – just a few of the factors that could help you stave off heart disease, says BNF
- BNF recognises early career scientists making waves in nutrition science
- BNF announces 2019 Pump Priming Awards winners
- Adults and children not getting enough sleep, risking poor diets and obesity, BNF survey finds
- Healthy hydration choices for different life stages: BNF explains all in new series of guides
- The BNF provides its top tips for putting PHE’s calorie advice into practice
- New Academy of Nutrition Sciences launched
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- From thriving school students to notable professors – BNF recognises nutrition scientists at all career stages
- Nutrition scientists’ top ten festive foods for a delicious, nutritious Christmas
- BNF says ‘ditch the January diet and keep healthy eating simple’ to save time and money this New Year
- BNF busts the myths on nutrition and COVID-19
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- Many children feel healthier and are more active since the return to school, research finds
- Nutrients such as zinc and a healthy gut microbiota could be part of the puzzle in tackling COVID-19, say nutrition experts.
- Championing leaders in food and nutrition: Scientists and teachers awarded at the BNF Awards 2020
- The nation’s concerns about health, wellbeing and food in run up to Christmas revealed in BNF survey
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- British Nutrition Foundation survey reveals 62% of Britons have altered their diet to get healthier in the past year
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