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UK Food Standards Agency Optimal Nutrition Status Workshop: environmental factors that affect bone health throughout life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Lynn Burns*
Affiliation:
Food Standards Agency, Aviation House 125 Kingsway, London WC2 6NH, UK
Margaret Ashwell
Affiliation:
Ashwell Associates, Ashwell Street, Ashwell, Hertfordshire SG7 5PZ, UK
Jacqueline Berry
Affiliation:
Vitamin D Research Group, The Medical School, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK
Caroline Bolton-Smith
Affiliation:
MRC Human Nutrition Research (HNR), Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL, UK
Aedin Cassidy
Affiliation:
Unilever, Colworth House, Sharnbrook, Bedford MK44 1LQ, UK
Matthew Dunnigan
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER, UK
Kay Tee Khaw
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, Clinical Gerontology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
Helen Macdonald
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen, Medicine and Therapeutics, Osteoporosis Research Unit, Woolmanhill Hospital, Aberdeen AB25 1LD, Scotland, UK
Susan New
Affiliation:
School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK
Ann Prentice
Affiliation:
MRC Human Nutrition Research (HNR), Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL, UK
Jonathan Powell
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Kings College London, Franklin Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN, UK
Jonathan Reeve
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, Clinical Gerontology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
Simon Robins
Affiliation:
The Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK
Birgit Teucher
Affiliation:
Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UA, UK
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*Corresponding author: Lynn Burns, fax +44 20 7276 8906, email lynn.burns@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk
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Abstract

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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) convened a group of expert scientists to discuss and review UK FSA- and Department of Health-funded research on diet and bone health. This research focused on the lifestyle factors that are amenable to change and may significantly affect bone health and the risk of osteoporotic fracture. The potential benefits of fruits and vegetables, meat, Ca, vitamins D and K and phyto-oestrogens were presented and discussed. Other lifestyle factors were also discussed, particularly the effect of physical activity and possible gene–nutrient interactions affecting bone health.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2003

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