In partnership with the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (an All Party Parliamentary Group), the Nutrition Society were delighted to host a discussion meeting at the Houses of Parliament on 25 March 2019, titled “Nutritional challenges for a growing and ageing population.”
STEM for BRITAIN was founded by Dr Eric Wharton in 1997, with the aim of raising the profile of science among Parliamentarians. The event is designed to promote Britain's early-career research scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians (collectively known as STEM), who are an essential part of continuing progress in UK research and development. Following Dr Wharton’s death, a number of learned societies (including The Nutrition Society) have worked together with the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee to continue the competition.
The annual Voice of the Future event, organised by the Royal Society of Biology(RSB) on behalf of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee, was held in one of Parliaments grandest committee rooms on 12 March 2019.
On 6 March 2018, Public Health England (PHE) released the 'Calorie reduction: the scope and ambition for action' report as part of the government’s strategy to cut childhood and adult obesity.
Following MPs majority vote in favour of beginning the process of leaving the EU on Wednesday 1 February, The President of The Nutrition Society, Professor Philip Calder, has released the following statement on behalf of the Society:
Public Health England (PHE) have revised guidelines on vitamin D intake based on the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s (SACN) scientific literature review on vitamin D and health. To protect bone and muscle health, they recommend vitamin D intakes equivalent to an average of 10 micrograms per day with supplementation where necessary.
Read the PHE press release here.
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