How could the BSE crisis affect nutrient intake? Comparison of beef and non-beef eating meat eaters from the UK Women's Cohort Study.
OBJECTIVE
To compare nutrient and food intakes in a group of meat eating women who ate beef with those who did not eat beef.


METHODS
Analysis of preliminary data from the UK Women's Cohort Study, a national study of women aged 35-69 y.


METHODS
Three thousand and eighty-six beef meat eaters from the cohort were compared with 593 non-beef meat eaters.


RESULTS
The non-beef eaters had lower energy, protein, zinc, fat, percentage of energy from fat and body mass index and higher fibre and vitamin C intakes than the beef eaters. There was no difference between the groups in consumption of carbohydrate, sugar or iron.


CONCLUSIONS
There were differences in nutrient intake between the groups, which if reflected long term in the general population have implications for health and food policy following media revelations.
Cade
J
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Public Health Division, Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds.
Calvert
C
C
Barrett
J
J
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002417:Cattle; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004032:Diet; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform; D002149:Energy Intake; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat; D008875:Middle Aged; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D006113:United Kingdom; D015032:Zinc / Q000008:administration & dosage
D004041:Dietary Fats; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D015032:Zinc