Improving Communication of the UK Sustainable Healthy Dietary Guidelines the Eatwell Guide: A Rapid Review

Culliford, Amy E.; Bradbury, Jane; Medici, Elphee B.

doi:10.3390/su15076149

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“…Given adopting dietary change is complex and multifactorial (61), public health messaging (alongside policy changes to ensure affordability) focusing on increasing fruit and vegetable intake as the one food group consistently associated with better health outcomes may be a sensible approach. A rapid review of the EWG has suggested a number of recommendations for better communication of the tool which, if adopted, may result in better adherence to the dietary guidelines (62).…”

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Adherence to the Eatwell Guide and cardiometabolic, cognitive and neuroimaging parameters: An analysis from the PREVENT Dementia study

Gregory,

Griffiths,

Jennings

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Healthy diet behaviours are important in a globally ageing population, particularly in relation to cardiometabolic and brain health. The Eatwell guide (EWG) reflects the UK government's recommendations for a healthy and balanced diet. Data from the PREVENT dementia cohort study baseline visit was used in this analysis. Binary and graded EWG scores (BEWG, GEWG) were created from a self-reported Food Frequency Questionnaire. The CAIDE score was included as the primary outcome measure to represent risk for future AD. Secondary outcome measures included cardiometabolic health measures, and brain health measures. Generalised additive models were run in R. A total of 517 participants were included in the analysis, with a mean BEWG score of 4.39 (+/-1.66) (out of a possible 12 points) and GEWG score of 39.88 (+/-6.19) (out of a possible 60 points). There was no significant association between either EWG score and the CAIDE (BEWG beta: 0.07; p: 0.32; GEWG beta: 0.02, p: 0.36) or any measures of brain health. There was a significant association between higher GEWG score and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) (systolic beta: -0.24, p: 0.03; diastolic beta: -0.16, p: 0.01; BMI beta: -0.09, p: 0.02). Although not directly associated with the CAIDE score, the EWG dietary pattern may be beneficial for dementia prevention efforts through modification of hypertension and obesity, which are both known risk factors for dementia. Future work could replicate these findings in other UK-based cohorts as well as further development of EWG scoring methodologies.

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confidence: 99%

Adherence to the Eatwell Guide and cardiometabolic, cognitive and neuroimaging parameters: An analysis from the PREVENT Dementia study

Gregory,

Griffiths,

Jennings

et al. 2023

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“…Umjesto toga, održiva prehrana (bilo gdje, a ne samo na Sredozemlju) može biti uspješna samo ako uzme u obzir trenutne prakse stanovništva i prilagodi ih budućnosti, prema održivijem modelu koji proizlazi iz mogućnosti lokalnog okruženja i tradicija, a pritom ne zanemaruje trenutne okolnosti, ukuse i težnje svojih populacija. Komunikacija, uključujući onu vlada i međunarodnih organizacija, nedvojbeno će imati utjecaja na uspješnost tih pomaka prema održivijim prehranama ( Johnston et al 2014;Culliford, Bradbury i Medici 2023). Međutim, teme kao što su održiva prehrana i problemi suvremenih prehrambenih sustava su kompleksne, a publika je raznolika.…”

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“…Communications, including those from governments and international bodies, will undoubtedly have an influence on how successful these shifts towards more sustainable diets will be ( Johnston et al 2014;Culliford, Bradbury, and Medici 2023). Messaging about topics, such as sustainable diets, and the issues around contemporary food systems, however, are complex, and the audiences diverse.…”

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Mediterranean Diet 3.0

Ivanišević,

Tominac,

Moro

et al. 2023

Etnol. trib. (Online)

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Ovaj će rad nastojati u kratkim crtama opisati konceptualne transformacije mediteranske prehrane od druge polovine 20. stoljeća do danas. Ovaj nesumnjivo popularni prehrambeni model, koji objedinjuje različite prehrambene kulture Sredozemlja, isprva je prepoznat kao zdravstveno blagotvoran, nudeći pomoć u prevenciji kardiovaskularnih bolesti. Početni impuls globalne popularnosti prehrambene kulture Sredozemlja, koji dolazi iz medicinskih i nutricionističkih znanosti, dugoročno je pripomogao pojednostavljenju složenih prehrambenih sustava Sredozemlja koji se od 2000-ih počinju prepoznavati kao homogeni kulinarski i kulturni obrazac. Nakon što je mediteranska prehrana 2010. godine upisana na UNESCO-ovu Reprezentativnu listu nematerijalne kulturne baštine čovječanstva, razumijevanje ove prehrambene kulture nesumnjivo se promijenilo. Danas mediteranska prehrana dobiva svoje nove artikulacije unutar politika održivog razvoja, očuvanja bioraznolikosti i ekosustava koje dugoročno nastoje razviti nove političke i ekonomske modele u okviru nužne transformacije trenutnih prehrambenih sustava prema zelenijim i održivijim rješenjima.

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“…Consumer-facing dietary guidance must not overburden citizens with overwhelming detail; being concise is critical to the real-life use of guidelines (Webb & Byrd-Bredbenner, 2015). A recent review of communication strategies of the UK Eatwell Guide reinforced this, concluding that language within dietary guidelines should be short, simple, specific and easy to understand (Culliford et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainability in food-based dietary guidelines: a review of recommendations around meat and dairy consumption and their visual representation

Sinclair,

Combet,

Davis

et al. 2023

Preprint

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The transition away from meat and dairy consumption and towards more plant-based diets is vital for meeting environmental sustainability targets, including reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use from food. Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) exist to communicate nutrition information to the public of a country’s population. However, it is not known how different countries’ FBDG communicate reducing meat and dairy intake in the context of sustainability. To address this gap, we reviewed global consumer-facing FBDG (n=58) to explore whether and how recommendations and information around meat and dairy consumption were included, and the pictorial representation of these two groups compared to other foods. Few countries used a sustainability argument to recommend reducing meat (6/58) or dairy consumption (2/58). The proportion of dairy images within food guides was consistently higher than meat images. Some countries’ guidelines are starting to consider meat in the context of sustainability and implementing meat reduction as recommendations. However, this is not the case for dairy, potentially due to complex nutritional implications. Overall, our review shows that not enough countries recommend reducing either meat or dairy consumption. Clearer guidelines backed by current evidence are needed, which provide justification behind recommendations, actionable advice for how to meet the recommendations, and appropriate quantified targets or limits of certain foods. This well-rounded advice is imperative to empower citizens to take action on their dietary habits, to reduce global meat and dairy consumption and replace these with more sustainable alternatives for human and planetary health.

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Improving Communication of the UK Sustainable Healthy Dietary Guidelines the Eatwell Guide: A Rapid Review

Cited by 12 publications

References 99 publications

Adherence to the Eatwell Guide and cardiometabolic, cognitive and neuroimaging parameters: An analysis from the PREVENT Dementia study

Adherence to the Eatwell Guide and cardiometabolic, cognitive and neuroimaging parameters: An analysis from the PREVENT Dementia study

Mediterranean Diet 3.0

Sustainability in food-based dietary guidelines: a review of recommendations around meat and dairy consumption and their visual representation

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