Tag: Diet
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European scientists, including Southampton’s Professor Janis Baird, say new policies on food could transform the way we eat.
We assume that our choices about what to eat are entirely our own responsibility. Yet this is not entirely true – our choices are influenced by adverts and marketing, limited by the options we have available to us, and constrained by the money we can afford to spend. This is why a group of advisors,…
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Fried food chemical linked to worse bone health
People who eat a lot of acrylamide, found in unhealthy food like crisps and chips, have been shown to be more likely to break a bone. A team of researchers, including Prof Cyrus Cooper from the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, studied the diet and fractures of thousands of people over eight years. Their results…