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  • Dietary Assessment Methods: What are Food Frequency Questionnaires?

    There are many methods that can be used to assess dietary intake – for example, using a 24hr recall or

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  • Can dietary monitoring lead to behaviour change?

    While dietary assessment has its origins as a research tool, evidence shows that the process of monitoring itself can help

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  • Dietary assessment methods: What is a food diary?

    Are you looking to use a food diary to monitor a patient’s food intake, or conduct a research study analysing

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  • Tried Veganuary? nutrients to look out for on a vegan diet.

    In 2021, more people than ever before signed up for Veganuary. With this there has been a huge rise in

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  • Is your Christmas meal good for you? Hidden nutrients in your festive favourites

    The Christmas season is finally upon us! And what better way to welcome it than with some nutrient facts you

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  • How can myfood24 help to support and enhance international nutrition research?

    The prevalence of diet-related disease across the globe is significant and is continuing to increase. In fact, poor diet is

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  • 5 Ways myfood24 Healthcare can Improve Nutrition Provision for Patients

    Poor diet increases the risk of a range of diseases, making the prevention and management of conditions related to poor

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  • Why is it important to have an accurate food composition database?

    One of the greatest challenges in public health nutrition involves limitations in data accuracy when collecting dietary information and at

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  • Children’s Packed lunches: Do they meet the nutritional standards?

    A study using myfood24 found that only 2 in 100 primary school children eat a packed lunch that meets children’s nutritional

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  • Nutritionist vs Dietitian: What’s the Difference?

    The terms ‘nutritionist’ and ‘dietitian’ are often used interchangeably, which can make it confusing to know the difference and where

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  • Interviewer-led recalls vs myfood24: time and cost in large-scale research studies

    Have you ever realised how long it takes to conduct interview-led recalls, manually coding food diaries for each participant and

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  • BMI: To Measure or Not to Measure

    Following a recent report, calls have been made to immediately scrap the use of BMI as it’s said to ‘contribute to

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