Brits eating too much salt, sugar and fat

“Too much sugar, salt and fat: healthy eating still eluding many Britons,” The Guardian reports, while the Daily Mail rather bizarrely warns of a “fruit juice timebomb”. Both papers are covering a major survey that looked at the nation’s eating habits over recent years.The survey found that, overall, adults and children are eating too much saturated fat, added sugar and salt. We are also not getting the recommended levels of fruit, vegetables, oily fish and fibre that our bodies need. Who produced the survey?Public Health England, an agency of the Department of Health, has released data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) from 2008 to 2012. The NDNS is undertaken by Natcen Social Research, MRC Human Nutrition Research and the University College London Medical School. It is funded by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Public Health England. How was the national diet and nutrition survey carried out?In 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, a randomly selected group of people aged 18 months or more, from 799 different postcodes, were invited to take part in the survey, via post. Response rates to the survey were 56% in Year 1, 57% in Year 2, 53% in Year 3 and 55% in Year 4. Up to one adult and one child were selected from each address, and this gave a sample size of 6,828 people over the four years (3,450 adults and 3,378 children).An interviewer recorded background information during a face-to-face interview with the adult, child or child’s parent or guardian...
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