Choline

Just as you thought you had your diet sorted, along comes another nutrient for you to consider. Choline is an essential nutrient that has until recently flown under the radar - Australian Eggs

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Choline: The forgotten vital nutrient we’re not getting enough of

Standard nutritional advice to cut down on meat and dairy may be stopping us getting enough of an essential nutrient named choline. Should we be worried?

WHETHER we follow it or not, most of us know the standard advice for eating healthily. Not too much red meat, fill up on whole grains for fibre, eat oily fish for the omega-3 oils, and have plenty of fruit and veg for the vitamins and minerals.

But there is another essential nutrient that most of us have never heard of – and that standard advice may be stopping us getting enough of it. The substance is called choline and Emma Derbyshire at Nutrition Insight, a consultancy in Surrey, UK, recently argued in the journal BMJ Nutrition,…

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 Choline: The forgotten vital nutrient we’re not getting enough of

Standard nutritional advice to cut down on meat and dairy may be stopping us getting enough of an essential nutrient named choline. Should we be worried?

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