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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 people to eat better. But we know that accurate dietary monitoring can sometimes feel like a mammoth task (and that’s where digital nutritional analysis tools like myfood24 can help to save time), for both patients…
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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 nutrient intake? Or perhaps you’ve been asked to keep your own food diary and want to know why you should use it? Previously, we wrote an article to help you decide which dietary assessment method…
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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 the availability of vegan products across supermarkets, fast food outlets and restaurants. McDonalds introduced the Mcplant, an all-new vegan burger Kettle chips released a Sheese and Red Onion flavour and even Burger King have jumped…
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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 may not have known about your festive favourites? We used the myfood24 food and nutrient database to look at the nutritional profile of some classic Christmas eats, here are some of the most nutrient-packed holiday…
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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 now responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide and many countries are now facing the double burden of malnutrition – cases of over- and undernutrition rising simultaneously. The importance of implementing effective healthcare policies and…
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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 nutrition as crucial as ever – but sometimes, providing routine provision of basic nutrition can be complicated. With the lack of time to give practical nutrition advice and appropriately assess patient diets, we break down…
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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 the heart of this is food composition data. In this article, we break down why it’s important to ensure that food and nutrient data is accurate and what to look for when choosing a robust…
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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 standards. With no rules or guidance to advise parents on what to include in packed lunches, this article discusses the study findings and how this affects diet quality and obesity in children. According to the National…
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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 to go when seeking dietary advice. This guide will simplify the difference and explain how to find a registered nutrition professional in the UK. Social media has provided a platform for easy access to nutritional…
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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 the financial costs of it all? We break down the process to show you how using myfood24 instead can save you time, effort, and money for accurate results in a large-scale epidemiological study. When it…
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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 health issues such as eating disorders and people’s mental health by disrupting body image and inviting social stigmas.’ But is scrapping it completely a good call to make? What the report says Parliament’s Women and…
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A Mini-Guide: which myfood24 solution should I use?
Whether you need to track a patient’s eating habits, expand a student’s mind about core nutrition principles or pioneer the next discovery in dietary health, myfood24 has been tailored for research, education, and healthcare settings to get you the best results. But with three different versions for three different industries, you may be thinking: What…
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