To answer the first question, dietary intake data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) for adults aged 19-64 years (2000/01) was compared with nutrient recommendations for health and the Eatwell plate. This confirmed the fact that the UK diet is too high in saturated fat, sugar and salt, and low in fibre compared with dietary recommendations. Furthermore, a shift to more fruit, vegetables and starch-based food and to fewer high fat and/or sugar types of food and high protein-based food (particularly meat) is needed. From the NDNS data it was estimated that the GHGE from the UK adult.
