Food Standards Scotland says it loud and clear! Scottish diet: it needs to change
15 Feb 16 |
If you have ever read a nutrition report from Scotland and thought it long and tedious to plough through the text – then read the latest report from Food Standards Scotland – clear but stark!
We can no longer turn a blind eye to the links between poor diet, overweight and cancer. Revised dietary goals for Scotland have been recommended – all of which are related to decreasing risk for cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
- to reduce free sugars to 5% of total energy
- to increase dietary fibre intake to 30g per day
- to maintain total carbohydrate at 50% of total energy with no more than 5% total energy from free sugars
These are some of the ways our diet needs to change:
The SCPN Newsletter: Volume 7, Issue 1
In our first issue of 2016, an update from Obesity Action Scotland on sugar, the benefits of Dryathlon and the confessions of a pedestrian, as well as the usual breakdown of cancer prevention research and news from the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network.