ReviewJournal of epidemiology and community health2005
The burden of food related ill health in the UK.
Review in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Dietary outcomes of a community based intervention for mothers of young children: a randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2014Trial
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- Evaluation of community level interventions to address social and structural determinants of health: a cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2009Trial
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- A Scoping Review of Choice Architecture to Promote Healthy Nutrition in Health and Care Settings.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- Determination of the Protein and Amino Acid Content of Fruit, Vegetables and Starchy Roots for Use in Inherited Metabolic Disorders.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Quantifying the relationship between gardening and health and well-being in the UK: a survey during the covid-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- "The reality is that on Universal Credit I cannot provide the recommended amount of fresh fruit and vegetables per day for my children": Moving from a behavioural to a systemic understanding of food practices [version 1; peer review: 2 approved].Emerald open research · 2021Article
- Discrimination of bovine milk from non-dairy milk by lipids fingerprinting using routine matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Discrepancy in socioeconomic status does not fully explain the variation in diet quality between consumers of different coffee types.European journal of nutrition · 2018Article
- Examining the interaction of fast-food outlet exposure and income on diet and obesity: evidence from 51,361 UK Biobank participants.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Article
- Empirically Derived Dietary Patterns in UK Adults Are Associated with Sociodemographic Characteristics, Lifestyle, and Diet Quality.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Quality assessment of nutrition coverage in the media: a 6-week survey of five popular UK newspapers.BMJ open · 2017Article
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveTo quantify the burden of ill health in the UK that can be attributed to food (the burden of food related ill health).
designReview and further analysis of the results of work concerned with estimates of the burden of disease measured as morbidity, mortality, and in financial terms and with the proportion of that burden that can be attributed to food. MAIN
resultsFood related ill health is responsible for about 10% of morbidity and mortality in the UK and costs the NHS about 6 billion pounds annually.
conclusionsThe burden of food related ill health measured in terms of mortality and morbidity is similar to that attributable to smoking. The cost to the NHS is twice the amount attributable to car, train, and other accidents, and more than twice that attributable to smoking. The vast majority of the burden is attributable to unhealthy diets rather than to food borne diseases.
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