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During the Second World War, a great deal of official attention was paid to ensuring that the UK population had adequate nutrition despite the blockade. [9] Food rationing (1940–1953) restricted consumption of animal products, fats, sugar, and tea, and replaced white bread with the wholegrain National Loaf, increasing vegetable and fiber consumption.
Dorothy Frances Hollingsworth OBE (10 May 1916 – 16 February 1994) was a British nutritionist and scientist, who demonstrated that the quality of the British diet was greatly improved by rationing. [1] Hollingsworth both documented and contributed to the improvements in British nutrition during the Second World War.
Prentice is the recipient of numerous honours, awards and prizes; she received the British Nutrition Foundation Prize in 2011, the Institut Candia's Laureate de Le Prix Scientifique in 1998, and the Robert and Edna Langholz Award for International Nutrition in 2004. [3]
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Patrick Holford is a British author and entrepreneur who endorses a range of vitamin tablets.As an advocate of alternative nutrition and diet methods, he appears regularly on television and radio in the UK and abroad.
The British Journal of Nutrition is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on animal and human nutrition. It was established in 1947 and is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society. The editor-in-chief is Professor John Mathers of Newcastle University.
From 2001 she was an academic at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. [3]She joined the Food Standards Agency in 2001, becoming Head of Nutrition Science. [4] In 2010 her role (along with colleagues working on nutrition policy in England) transferred to the Department of Health, [5] and in turn to Public Health England when it was established in 2013.
[2] [3] He is also the honorary vice president of the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) and is the lead non-executive board member for the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). [4]