Macronutrient mixtures and interactions in health and disease (opens in new tab)

Nutrition shapes development, health and risk of disease over the life course and across generations. The predominant approaches to understanding these relationships have either been to consider the effects of single nutrients, one at a time, or to consider associations with food types and dietary patterns. Although, to date, the single-nutrient approach has defined much of the scientific enquiry and public debate on the macronutrients — carbohydrate, fat and protein — there is an emerging ap...