Jayne Hutchinson

Research on multiple health behaviours is increasing but little is known about parental behaviours and how they covary. Our study investigates cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption and physical activity among mothers and co-resident partners in England. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we examined (i) cl...

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Ministry of Food (MoF) cooking programme on self-reported food consumption and confidence with cooking. Design: A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the MoF 8-week cooking course, using a pre-test/post-test study. Pre, post and 6-month follow-up quantitative outcomes were measured using sel...

Involvement of children in gardening has the potential to increase liking of fruit and vegetables (FV) and consequently intake, but research results are mixed. School gardening led by external specialists such as the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) could have more impact than teacher-led gardening on children's knowledge of, and attitudes towards...

Background/objectives: To determine whether general dietary supplement use is associated with cancer risk in UK women and to estimate risks related to use at one and two recording points. Subjects/methods: Cox's proportional hazard regression models were used to estimate cancer risks for 32 665 middle-aged women in the UK Women's Cohort Study re...

A major determinant of healthy growth and development is good nutrition during infancy and early childhood. The high level of marketing and wide-spread availability of commercially available complementary foods (baby foods) have led to various concerns about the nutritional content and potentially problematic marketing strategies used to promote th...

The aim was to determine whether commercial baby foods marketed within Europe (up to 36 months of age) have inappropriate formulation and high sugar content and to provide suggestions to update European regulations and recommendations as part of a nutrient profile model developed for this age group. The latter was produced following recommended Wor...

Obesity is a major health problem facing the European population; over two thirds (67%) of UK adult men and 58% women are overweight or obese ⁽¹⁾ . The positive association between on-pack serving-size and food intake is known as the ‘portion size effect’. However, although direct links with obesity remain unproven, evidence suggests that limiting...

WHO guidelines on sugars strongly recommend reducing free sugar intake to below 10% of total energy, also their guidance on ‘Ending the inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children (IYC)’ recommends avoiding free sugars. Information on the sugar content of commercially available complementary foods (CACFs) for infants is limited,...

Background Malnutrition linked to noncommunicable diseases presents major health problems across Europe. The World Health Organisation encourages countries to conduct national dietary surveys to obtain data to inform public health policies designed to prevent noncommunicable diseases. Methods Data on 27334 participants aged 19-64y were harmonised...

The WHO encourages countries to conduct national dietary surveys (NDS) to inform preventative policies targeting malnutrition and noncommunicable diseases. Previous reviews have found inadequate nutrient intakes and survey provision across Europe. This research is the first to provide an updated review of NDS provision within the whole WHO European...

This study examines nutritional intakes in Gestational diabetes mellitus piloting the myfood24 tool, to explore frequency of meals/snacks, and daily distribution of calories and carbohydrates in relation to glycaemic control. A total of 200 women aged 20–43 years were recruited into this prospective observational study between February 2015 and Feb...

Background: measuring dietary intake in children and adolescents can be challenging due to misreporting, difficulties in establishing portion size and reliance on recording dietary data via proxy reporters. The aim of this review was to present results from a recent systematic review of reviews reporting and comparing validated dietary assessment t...

There is growing interest in preconception health as a crucial period for influencing not only pregnancy outcomes, but also future maternal and child health, and prevention of long-term medical conditions. Successive national and international policy documents emphasise the need to improve preconception health, but resources and action have not fol...

Background: Health researchers may struggle to choose suitable validated dietary assessment tools (DATs) for their target population. The aim of this review was to identify and collate information on validated UK DATs and validation studies for inclusion on a website to support researchers to choose appropriate DATs. Design: A systematic review of...

Evidence links consumed food portion size (FPS) and excess weight via increased energy intake. Policies to regulate on-pack serving sizes may be needed; determining consumed FPS of popular energy-dense foods for normal weight and overweight or obese (OWOB) adults, as reported here, may provide evidence to assist this. Data were analysed from nation...

Background/objectives: The use of simple screening tools to measure nutritional adequacy in a public health context in developed countries are currently lacking. We explore the relationship between food variety and nutrient intake of London school children using a simple tool with potential use for screening for inadequate diets. Subjects/methods...

The WHO encourages national diet survey (NDS) implementation to obtain relevant data to inform policies addressing all forms of malnutrition, which remains a pressing issue throughout Europe. This paper provides an up-to-date review on energy, macro- and selected micronutrient intakes in children across WHO Europe using the latest available NDS int...

Systematic review and website presentation of validated dietary assessment tools - Volume 77 Issue OCE4 - M. Warthon-Medina, J. Hooson, N. Hancock, L.E. Gibson, L.A. Bush, J. Hutchinson, D.C. Greenwood, S. Robinson, V.J. Burley, M. Roe, T. Steer, P.A. Wark, J.E. Cade

Energy and macronutrient intakes across the lifecourse from current national dietary surveys of European populations - Volume 77 Issue OCE4 - H.L. Rippin, J. Hutchinson, J. Jewell, J.J. Breda, J.E. Cade

Portion size of energy-dense foods in French and UK adults by BMI status: is there an association between portion size and BMI? - Volume 77 Issue OCE4 - H.L. Rippin, J. Hutchinson, J. Jewell, J.J Breda, J.E. Cade

Nutritools.org an innovative website including a Food Questionnaire Creator for dietary assessment in health research - Volume 77 Issue OCE4 - M. Warthon-Medina, J. Hooson, N. Hancock, J. Hutchinson, E. Vargas-Garcia, L.E. Gibson, L.A. Bush, K. Greathead, B. Knowles, B. Margetts, S. Robinson, A. Ness, N.A. Alwan, P.A. Wark, M. Roe, P. Finglas, T. S...

Accurate diet measurement is challenging and strategies to support researchers in selecting the most appropriate dietary assessment tools (DATs) are required. DIET@NET (DIETary Assessment tools NETwork) partnership aimed to create an online resource that provides guidelines for selecting tools with access to validated DATs. The Nutritools website(1...

Background The World Health Organisation (WHO) encourages national diet survey (NDS) implementation to obtain relevant data to inform policies aimed at addressing the burden of malnutrition and childhood obesity, which remain pressing health issues. However, we have previously shown that European NDS provision is inconsistent, and the majority of g...

Objectives The objectives of this study were (1) to determine the coverage of national nutrition surveys in the 53 countries monitored by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and identify gaps in provision, (2) to describe relevant survey attributes and (3) to check whether energy and nutrients are reported with a view to...

A woman who is healthy at the time of conception is more likely to have a successful pregnancy and a healthy child. We reviewed published evidence and present new data from high, low and middle income countries on the timing and importance of preconception health for subsequent maternal and child health. We describe the extent to which pregnancy is...

Are the distributions of carbohydrates, meals and snacks associated with blood glucose control in women with gestational diabetes? A pilot study using myfood24 dietary assessment tool - Volume 76 Issue OCE4 - J. Hutchinson, M. Morris, C. Gianfrancesco, N.A. Alwan, J.E. Cade

Trans fatty acids (TFA) increase the risk of mortality and chronic diseases. TFA intakes have fallen since reformulation, but may still be high in certain, vulnerable, groups. This paper investigates socio-economic and food consumption characteristics of high TFA consumers after voluntary reformulation in the Netherlands and UK. Post-reformulation...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) encourages countries to undertake national dietary survey (NDS), but implementation and reporting is inconsistent. This paper provides an up-to-date review of adult macro and micronutrient intakes in European populations as reported by national diet surveys (NDS). It uses WHO Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNIs) t...

Objective The WHO encourages the virtual elimination of artificial trans -fatty acids (TFA), which increase CHD risk. Our UK analysis explores whether voluntary reformulation results in differential TFA intakes among socio-economic groups by determining characteristics of high TFA consumers before and after product reformulation. Design Food intak...

div class="title">Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Ministry of Food programme on self-reported food consumption and confidence with cooking - Volume 75 Issue OCE3 - Jayne Hutchinson, Jennifer F. Watt, Emma K. Strachan, Janet. E. Cade

Background Consumption of trans fatty acids (TFA) increases the risk of coronary heart disease. Large-scale voluntary product reformulation to remove artificial TFAs has occurred in the UK and is part of the WHO Global Monitoring Framework. Our analysis determines the impact of reformulation on different socio-economic groups, by determining charac...

Individual lifestyles are key drivers of both environmental change and chronic disease. We undertook a scoping review of peer-reviewed studies which examined associations between environmental and health behaviors of individuals in high-income countries. We searched EconLit, Medline, BIOSIS and the Social Science Citation Index. A total of 136 stud...

This chapter discusses population-based, observational studies to explore associations between diet and health outcomes. The methods used are based on epidemiological approaches. The key consideration in population-based studies is that the researcher has no control over the exposure of interest (e.g. diet). The overall aim is to provide an overvie...

Objectives To determine the social patterning of active travel of short journeys for urban and rural residents in a large UK representative sample. Methods Associations between frequently walking or cycling short journeys and socio-demographic factors in the UK Household Longitudinal Study were determined using logistic regression. Results Urban...

Vitamin C intake has been inversely associated with breast cancer risk in case-control studies, but not in meta-analyses of cohort studies using Food Frequency Questionnaires, which can over-report fruit and vegetable intake, the main source of vitamin C. This is the first study to investigate associations between vitamin C intake and breast cancer...

Introduction Vitamin C supplementation is common in UK women and high doses are often consumed, however evidence is lacking regarding their effects on breast cancer risk in UK users. Method 11 184 middle-aged women from the UK Women's Cohort Study were followed up for a median of 7.4 years. Associations between 239 registered incident breast cancer...

Introduction Vitamin C intake has been inversely associated with breast cancer risk in case-control studies, but not in meta-analyses of cohort studies using Food Frequency Questionnaires. No study has assessed this relationship prospectively using food diaries which may more accurately measure intake. Methods Estimated dietary vitamin C intake wa...

To determine whether frequent vitamin C supplement use is associated with healthier behaviours, and a history of cancer and other illnesses in UK women. The present cross-sectional analysis examines the odds of taking supplements containing vitamin C as recorded in 4 d food diaries, based on lifestyle characteristics and morbidity history self-repo...

Maternal smoking during pregnancy has been consistently associated with disruptive behaviour in male offspring; however, results for girls are inconsistent and little is known about emergent patterns in young children. Additionally, it is unclear whether maternal smoking is independently associated in offspring with hyperactivity-inattention or onl...