Over the past month Prof Janet Cade's been busy discussing the importance of accurate, valid and reliable dietary assessment tools at a number of events and conferences including: FENS, BDA Health and Nutrition and Wheat-Health. Read on to find out more.
Our newly updated website now has more myfood24 related content than ever, we hope you like it! Read on to see what's changed.
As of September the team behind myfood24, Dietary Assessment Ltd, have a new home on the University of Leeds campus, Nexus. Nexus is an innovative hub that aims to bring together and connect businesses with world-leading research.
We recently held our second advisory group meeting to discuss our continued development of myfood24 in a variety of areas. Our panel includes experts in the fields of nutrition and dietetics, public health, psychology and a patient representative. We work collaboratively to help better understand the ways in which myfood24 can support a whole range of disciplines and individuals.
A recent ranking for Business Clouds Yorkshire and Humberside Tech 50 has placed the team behind myfood24 as number 10! The ranking was decided based on a public vote and a judging panel, with so many votes vasts we are humbled to have secured the number 10 spot alongside so many other exciting businesses.
Dietary Assessment have expanded their team with the appointment of a new Nutritionist & Database Assistant, Grace Williams.
We're pleased to announce that our founder, Prof Janet Cade, has recently worked with Mediaplanet on the 2019 Health Awareness: Weight Management campaign alongside other thought-leaders and industry experts.
The article features exclusive content from Prof Janet Cade and Dr Bernadette Moore (School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds) discussing how their research could help to reduce childhood obesity, including the high sugar content of yoghurts and how technologies such as myfood24 could be used to improve patient outcomes.
In 2015 the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition advised that the term ‘free sugars’ should replace the terms 'Non Milk Extrinsic Sugars' and 'added sugars'. Free sugars encompasses all sugars added to foods by manufactures, cooks or consumers, alongside those sugars naturally present in honey, syrup and unsweetened fruit juice.
Article written by Prof Janet Cade:
Best practice guidelines for reporting new technologies to measure diet
I was lucky enough to get some winter sunshine at the ILSI (International Life Sciences Institute) Annual Meeting and Science Symposium. This was held in Clearwater, Florida in January 2019. New technologies was the theme of the meeting, and I presented on Dietary intake assessment using technology including wearables: gaps and requirements.
There is strong evidence to suggest that fruit and vegetable consumption reduces the risk of a variety of diseases including cardiovascular disease (CVD). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that individuals should consume at least 400g of fruit and vegetables daily, this led to the ‘5 a day’ campaign in the UK.
For some, consuming fruit juice as part of the recommended fruit and vegetable intake may make it more achievable. However, whether fruit juice is an acceptable alternative to whole fruit and carries the same health benefits as whole fruit, remains unclear.
