Health food blogger: friend or foe?

Aoife Keogh; Barbara Lesley Chadwick

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-019-1052-6

doi.org/10.1038/s41415-019-1052-6

Health food blogger: friend or foe?

Aoife Keogh

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Barbara Lesley Chadwick

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British Dental Journal2.60

Volume: 227, Issue: 12, Pages: 1051 - 1057

Published: Dec 1, 2019

Abstract

The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have recently updated nutritional guidelines for a reduced sugar intake. With the increased popularity of online health-food bloggers and 'refined-sugar free' recipes, this review looked to analyse recipes from popular online bloggers to validate the veracity of their 'sugar-free' and 'healthy' claims and assess their adherence to recently implemented...