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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 dietary carbohydrates and oral health.
• The terminology, classification and definitions of types of carbohydrates in the diet.

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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

Dr David Mela
Science Leader, Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, 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
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, School of Primary Care Clinical Sciences.  Former advertising and marketing research director

Professor Ian Johnson
Expert in diet and colorectal health & disease, Institute of Food Research

Professor Ian Young
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast

Professor Angus Walls
Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Director of Research School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University

Professor Julie Lovegrove
Reader in Nutritional Metabolism and Deputy Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Research at the University of Reading

Dr Mark Beattie
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Southampton General Hospital

Ms Alison Eastwood (External advisor)
Reviews Manager, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York

Dr Peter Sanderson (External consultant)