Working Groups
Terms of Reference:
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition is requested by the Food Standards Agency and Department of Health to provide clarification of the relationship between dietary carbohydrate and health and make public health recommendations. To achieve this they need to review:
- The evidence for a role of dietary carbohydrate in colorectal health in adults (including colorectal cancer, IBS, constipation) and in infancy and childhood.
- The evidence on dietary carbohydrate and cardio-metabolic health (including cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, glycaemic response and obesity).
- The evidence in respect to dental health that has arisen since the COMA report, Dietary Sugars and Human Disease (Department of Health 1989).
- The terminology, classification and definitions of types of carbohydrates in the diet.
Carbohydrate Working Group Chair
Professor Ian Macdonald
Professor of Metabolic Physiology at the University of Nottingham and Director of Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Carbohydrate Working Group Members
Professor Alan Jackson
Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton
Dr David Mela
Senior Scientist and Expertise Group Leader, Unilever Food and Health Research Institute, The Netherlands
Professor Timothy Key
Professor in Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Richard Doll Building, Oxford
Professor Annie Anderson
Professor of Food Choice, Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, University of Dundee
Mrs Christine Gratus (lay member)
Retired Director and International Vice-President of J Walter Thompson