Scientific Updates
Concise and fully referenced summaries of key publications and reports on all matters relating to food systems and dietary behaviour for optimum human and planetary health. Topics include environment, sustainability, health, food-based dietary guidelines, nutritional adequacy, soya and changing behaviour.
Scientific Updates
Concise and fully referenced summaries of key publications and reports on all matters relating to food systems and dietary behaviour for optimum human and planetary health. Topics include environment, sustainability, health, food-based dietary guidelines, nutritional adequacy, soya and changing behaviour.
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How social media influences adolescent eating habits
How health professionals can help mitigate the current impact of social media on adolescents’ eating habits.
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Systematic review shows soya intake is associated with lowering blood pressure in adults
Soya is associated with a mild but significant blood pressure lowering effect in adults.
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Why consider soya alternatives to dairy and meat: building a healthy sustainable diet
Part one of three free webinars on soya and health, with the latest science and practical implications.
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Labelling soya foods as ultra-processed is unhelpful
Soya-based meat and dairy alternatives can be part of a healthy, balanced and more sustainable diet.
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Interaction of plant-based diets and gut microbiota
A fully referenced in-depth exploration of how plant-based diets impact on the gut microbiota.
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Intake of micronutrients and fatty acids of vegetarian, vegan, and omnivorous children
Vegan and vegetarian children's diets have good intakes of many micronutrients and essential fatty acids
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Soya and heart health
Soya supports heart health via improving cardiometabolic markers such as cholesterol and endothelial function.
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Plant-based eating and healthy ageing
Plant-based diets can support healthy ageing by reducing the risk of chronic disease and premature mortality.
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Plant-based diets and cancer
Adopting a healthful plant-based diet and limiting alcohol intake is the best way to reduce cancer risk in...
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Plant-based eating and weight management
Adopting a diet based on healthful plant foods supports sustainable weight management over time.
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Soya food and health – an overview
Soya consumption is associated with overall improved cardiometabolic and other chronic disease outcomes.
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Soya foods get the all the clear for breast cancer
Systematic reviews provide reassurance for women with breast cancer wishing to consume soya foods.
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Plant-based eating and carbon footprint
According to current research, a plant-based diet is associated with a lower carbon footprint.
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The saturated fat debate
The scientific evidence is stronger than ever that replacing saturated fat with poly-unsaturated fat improves lipid profile and...
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Changing behaviour: from policy to table - moving the dial towards healthy sustainable diets
Proceedings of the half day e-symposium with international experts exploring how to nudge individuals towards sustainable eating habits.
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Soya protein is effective for building muscle mass and strength
Study demonstrates that soya protein is equally effective as whey protein for building muscle mass and strength.
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Plant-based eating and diabetes
Plant-based dietary patterns are helpful in preventing and treating type II diabetes.
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Adoption of national dietary guidelines can not only improve health but can be ecologically favourable
Adherence to some nations’ food-based dietary guidelines can benefit both public health and the environment
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Plant-based eating and cholesterol
Scientific review demonstrates a strong cholesterol-lowering effect of plant-based diets and foods.
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Reversing fatty liver disease with healthy lifestyle
Clinicians explain the role of lifestyle and plant-based diets in the development and treatment of fatty liver disease.
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Reversing the nitrogen crisis with sustainable diets report
How does the Nitrogen crisis impact planetary and human health and how can we reverse it?
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Plant-based eating and cardiometabolic health
The positive impact of plant-based diet and specific plant-based foods impact cardiometabolic health.
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Sustainable diets for better human and planetary health
A 2019 comprehensive review of the evidence for sustainable diets and food systems: the what and the how.
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The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines
National dietary guidelines would be more sustainable for both planet and health, if they were closer to the...
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Health benefits of plant-based eating – the way forward and how to implement it in daily life
Proceedings of Alpro Foundation’s scientific session at the 2019 European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians in Berlin.
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Healthful plant-based eating is associated with lower adiposity and inflammation
A healthful plant-based diet is associated with improved biomarkers for adiposity and inflammation.
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Meta-analysis confirms soya protein's cholesterol - lowering effect
46 randomised trials demonstrate that soya food can significantly lower total and LDL cholesterol.
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One Blue Dot®
One Blue Dot® - the British Dietetic Association’s environmentally sustainable diet project. A ‘live toolkit’ with scientific and...
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The muscle power of soya protein
Meta-analysis concludes soya protein alongside resistance training is effective for building muscle strength.
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Which dietary changes are critical to reduce our environmental burden?
Two internationally influential publications which underpin global sustainable dietary guidelines.
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