Effectiveness of interventions to promote healthy diet in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
BMC Public HealthPublished 1 December 2013Open access
Nawaraj Bhattarai, A Toby Prevost, Alison J. Wright, Judith Charlton, Caroline Rudisill, Martin Gulliford
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Presently-reported interventions to promote healthy diet for primary prevention in primary care, which illustrate a diverse range of intervention methods, may yield small beneficial changes in consumption of fruit, vegetables, fibre and fat over 12 months.
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Presently-reported interventions to promote healthy diet for primary prevention in primary care, which illustrate a diverse range of intervention methods, may yield small beneficial changes in consumption of fruit, vegetables, fibre and fat over 12 months. The present results do not exclude the possibility that more effective intervention strategies might be developed.
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