Publications by authors named "T Steer"
Article Synopsis
- There is uncertainty about the adequacy of contemporary plant-based diets in meeting essential nutrient intakes, leading to the establishment of the Feeding the Future (FEED) study in the UK.
- The study involved 6,342 participants across various diet groups (omnivores, flexitarians, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans), assessing their diets through food frequency questionnaires.
- Findings revealed that while most participants met UK recommendations for certain nutrients, vegetarians and vegans often had lower protein and certain vitamins, indicating a need for better dietary choices or food fortification to prevent nutrient deficiencies.
The UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme (NDNS RP) commenced in 2008 and moved in 2019 from a traditional paper food diary to a web-based 24 h recall, Intake24. This paper describes the approach to update and downsize the underlying UK Nutrient Databank (NDB) for efficient data management and integration into Intake24. Consumption data from the first 10 years (2008/2009 to 2017/2018) of NDNS RP informed decisions on whether foods from the extensive UK NDB were to be retained, excluded, revised or added to for creation of a rationalised NDB.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Measuring dietary intake in children and adolescents can be challenging due to misreporting, difficulties in establishing portion size and reliance on recording dietary data via proxy reporters. The aim of this review was to present results from a recent systematic review of reviews reporting and comparing validated dietary assessment tools used in younger populations in the UK.
Methods: Validation data for dietary assessment tools used in younger populations (≤18 years) were extracted and summarised using results from a systematic review of reviews of validated dietary assessment tools.
Monitoring dietary intake of sugars in the population's diet has great importance in evaluating the efficiency of national sugar reduction programmes. The study objective was to provide a comprehensive assessment of dietary sources of added and free sugars to assess adherence to public health recommendations in the UK population and to consider the impact of different sugar definitions on monitoring. The terms "added sugar" and "free sugar" are different sugar definitions which include different sugar components and may result in different sugar intakes depending on the definition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Overestimation or underestimation of portion size leads to measurement error during dietary assessment.
Objective: To identify portion size estimation elements (PSEEs) and evaluate their relative efficacy in relation to dietary assessment, and assess the quality of studies validating PSEEs.
Data Selection And Extraction: Electronic databases, internet sites, and cross-references of published records were searched, generating 16 801 initial records, from which 334 records were reviewed and 542 PSEEs were identified, comprising 5% 1-dimensional tools (eg, food guides), 46% 2-dimensional tools (eg, photographic atlases), and 49% 3-dimensional tools (eg, household utensils).