Nutrition and dietary habits

Knowledge about nutrition and dietary habits is important to promote healthy dietary habits and to prevent diet-related diseases. For that purpose DTU National Food Institute works broadly with studies of nutrients and other health promoting substances in the diet, maintains data on the dietary intake of nutrients, carries out major national dietary surveys and measures the effect of strategies on promoting healthy dietary habits.

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Data on dietary habits and physical activity

Read about the Danish National Survey of Diet and Physical Activity

Webinar about healthy and climate-friendly diets

Watch a webinar on healthy and climate-friendly diets, and learn about sustainable food systems, dietary guidelines and much more.

Dietary habits during a pandemic

DTU National Food Institute has set out to study what effect the corona pandemic is having on what Danes eat.

Risk-benefit analysis

Read about DTU National Food Institute's work with assessing positive and negative effects of foods

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30 april 2024

Data scarcity challenges identification of endocrine disruptors

Lack of data from the chemical industry in the EU often prevents the assessment of whether substances, for example, used in consumer products, are endocrine disrupting. This is shown in a new study from DTU National Food Institute and the University of Southern Denmark. As a result, the researchers recommend updating the information requirements in the EU legislation, REACH. They also propose various approaches for evaluating chemical substances to ensure that all available information is fully utilized.

17 april 2024

Postdoc represents Denmark and DTU in international science competition

Postdoc Sakhi Ghelichi from DTU National Food Institute represents Denmark as the sole participant in the Falling Walls Lab competition in Mons, Belgium, on 18 and 19 April 2024. He aims to create functional foods from marine sources to ensure both nutritional value and great taste.

19 december 2023

New project will enhance obesity prevention in Europa

DTU National Food Institute is part of the HealthyW8 project, that has set out to enhance the effectiveness of existing and future initiatives and investments in obesity prevention throughout Europe.

27 april 2023

EU project will improve awareness of iodine and health risks related to deficiency

Iodine deficiency can have serious health consequences. DTU National Food Institute is part of a new EU Consortium, Euthyroid2 that aims to raise awareness of iodine deficiency consequences.

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