Association between intake of less-healthy foods defined by the United Kingdom’s nutrient profile model and cardiovascular disease: A population-based cohort study
Publication: PLOS Medicine
Oliver T. Mytton, Nita G. Forouhi, Peter Scarborough, Marleen Lentjes, Robert Luben, Mike Rayner, Kay Tee Khaw,
Nicholas J. Wareham, Pablo Monsivais
4 January 2018
Summary
In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency-Ofcom nutrient profiling model (FSA-Ofcom model) is used to define less-healthy foods that cannot be advertised to children. However, there has been limited investigation of whether less-healthy foods defined by this model are associated with prospective health outcomes. The objective of this study was to test whether consumption of less-healthy food as defined by the FSA-Ofcom model is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD)
