Health Update: Good Northern diet
DESPITE their alleged fondness for chip butties, northerners eat far less fat than people in the South, according to the Public Health Common Data Set produced by the Institute of Public Health, University of Surrey. It found that the percentage of food energy derived from saturated fatty acids was lowest in the North. The highest rates were in the South-west, South-east and East Anglia.
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