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"Aligning front-of-pack labelling with dietary guidelines: including wh" by Caitlin Byron, Katrina R. Kissock et al.

Purpose: Front-of-pack labelling systems, such as the Health Star Rating (HSR), aim to aid healthy consumer dietary choices and complement national dietary guidelines. Dietary guidelines aim to be holistic by extending beyond the individual nutrients of food, including other food components that indicate diet quality, including whole grains. We aimed to test the feasibility of including whole grains in the HSR algorithm, to better inform dietary guidance in Australia coherent with existing dietary guidelines. Methods: We assigned whole-grain points as a favourable component of the HSR based on the whole-grain content of foods. We compared the original, and three modified HSR algorithms (including altered thresholds for star ratings) using independent-samples median tests. Finally, we used Spearman’s correlation to measure the strength of association between an item’s nutritional composition (all components of the HSR algorithm including all favourable and unfavourable components) a ....

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FG to formulate policies for adequate salt consumption

The Federal Government says it will formulate policies and national strategies to educate Nigerians on the adequate consumption quantity of safe and nutritious foods with appropriate salt content. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Kachollom Daju, said this in Abuja on Tuesday during the inauguration of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Salt Reduction. ....

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