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3 Jan 2017 - The Guardian - Children consume half of daily sugar quota at breakfast - study

Public Health England launches barcode app after finding that under-10s consume three times the recommended limit

3 January 2017 - The Guardian - No evidence sugar-free soft drinks aid weight loss – study

2 Jan 2017 - The Guardian - The Case Against Sugar review - an unsweetened attack on diet myths

29 Dec 2016 - MedXpress - Omega-3 supplements can prevent childhood asthma

27 Dec 2016 - Am Pharm Assoc - Omega-3 fish oil dietary supplements contain saturated fats and oxidized lipids that may interfere with intended benefits

23 Dec 2016 - The Huffington Post - Don’t Tell The Truth About Organic Food?

23 Dec 2016 - Farming UK - New report concludes eating organic food brings a variety of health benefits

22 Dec 2016 - FoodNavigator - Obese parents triple obese offspring risk, experts warn

21 Dec 2016 - Science Daily - Vitamin D improves gut flora and metabolic syndrome

20 Dec 2016 - EPRS - Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture

20 Dec 2016 - Daily Mail - Folic acid in flour 'would potentially save HUNDREDS of babies from spina bifida', says top professor

20 December 2016 - Food Navigator - Consumers assume food must be expensive to be healthy: Study

20 December 2016 - The Conversation - Christmas stuffing: here's what happens to your body when you overeat

19 Dec 2016 - Nutraingredients - Multi-strain probiotic could aid gut health – even if you’re healthy

17 December 2016 - The Age - Saturated fats: Health debate skips dietary benefits of omega-3 fats, experts say

16 December 2016 - Nutraingredients - Could folic acid decrease dementia risk?

16 December 2016 - IBDNewsToday - A Single Gene Variant, Once an Evolutionary Edge, Now Seen to Promote Diseases Like IBD

An alteration in a single gene, the Fads1 gene, may determine the risk for certain diseases, including inflammatory syndromes like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The study tracing the gene in human evolution and its effects was published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.

14 December 2016 - The Guardian - Autism linked to vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, researchers find

14 December 2016 - NutraIngredients - Probiotics have a ‘positive effect’ on stress and anxiety: Meta-analysis

More studies need to be conducted to determine if the consumption of probiotics could also assist with symptoms of diagnosed clinical depression.

14 December 2016 - The Conversation - Do humans need dairy? Here's the science

A lot of people will have already made up their mind about whether humans need dairy in their diet and will be thinking that the answer is obviously “yes” or obviously “no”. But nutrition is based on science not opinion – so, here’s the latest research on the matter.