Reading
Where to check things yourself
I would rather you verified this than trusted me. These are the primary sources I use — public bodies and systematic reviewers, not supplement blogs.
European public health bodies
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EFSA — European Food Safety Authority
DRV Finder — dietary reference values
The EU's official database of dietary reference values for vitamins, minerals and macronutrients, by age and sex. This is the primary source behind everything I say about nutrition.
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EFSA — European Food Safety Authority
Dietary reference values — overview
How these values are actually derived, and what each term precisely means (average requirement, population reference intake, acceptable range).
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EUR-Lex — Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011
Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 — food labelling
The law requiring European labels to declare per 100 g, in both kJ and kcal. My calorie tracker follows this logic exactly — Annex XIV holds the official energy conversion factors.
en · hu · ro · all EU languages
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European Commission — Public Health
Nutrition and physical activity
The European Commission's policy overview, with member-state data and programmes. Useful for the wider context behind national recommendations.
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WHO Regional Office for Europe
Nutrition — WHO Europe
Nutrition guidance and reports from WHO's European regional office — the level national dietary guidelines are usually derived from.
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Physical activity guidance
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WHO Regional Office for Europe
Physical activity — WHO Europe
How much movement is enough, and for what. Broken down by life stage, from children to older adults.
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World Health Organization
WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
The full 2020 guideline — the source of the 150–300 minutes of moderate activity per week and twice-weekly strength training recommendations. If you read one document, read this one.
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Evidence reviews
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Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library — systematic reviews
The gold standard for evidence synthesis. If a claim is not supported by a Cochrane review, treat it carefully. The plain language summaries are readable without a medical background.
en · hu · ro · and more
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PubMed — US National Library of Medicine
PubMed — biomedical literature
Over 35 million study abstracts. When searching, filter to "systematic review" or "meta-analysis" — a single small study on its own proves very little.
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Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
ISSN position stands — sports nutrition
Open-access position stands on protein intake, creatine, meal timing and the rest. These are what I reference when setting macro targets — free to read, not paywalled.
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External links open on sites I do not control. Their content is theirs, not mine, and may change.