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Baric, A., Malik, V. S., & Christoforou, A. (2025). Ultra-processed food consumption and cardiometabolic risk in Canada: a cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian health measures survey. Nutrition & Metabolism, 22(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-025-00935-y

Christoforou, A., Bernstein, J., Dickinson, K., Yang, Y., Arcand, J., & L’Abbe, M. (2025). Examining changes in the sodium content of Canadian prepackaged foods: 2013 to 2017. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 50, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2023-0174

Flexner, N., Ahmed, M., Mulligan, C., Bernstein, J. T., Christoforou, A. K., Lee, J. J., Khandpur, N., & L’Abbe, M. R. (2023). The estimated dietary and health impact of implementing the recently approved ‘high in’ front-of-package nutrition symbol in Canada: a food substitution scenario modeling study. Frontiers in Nutrition (Lausanne), 10, Article 1158498. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1158498

Flexner, N., Christoforou, A. K., Bernstein, J. T., Ng, A. P., Yang, Y., Fernandes Nilson, E. A., Labonté, M.-È., & L’Abbe, M. R. (2023). Estimating Canadian sodium intakes and the health impact of meeting national and WHO recommended sodium intake levels: A macrosimulation modelling study. PloS One, 18(5), e0284733. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284733

Ahmed, M., Ng, A. (Praneet), Christoforou, A., Mulligan, C., & L’Abbé, M. R. (2023). Top Sodium Food Sources in the American Diet—Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Nutrients, 15(4), 831. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15040831

Bernstein, J. T., Christoforou, A. K., Ng, A. (Praneet), Weippert, M., Mulligan, C., Flexner, N., & L’Abbe, M. R. (2023). Canadian Free Sugar Intake and Modelling of a Reformulation Scenario. Foods, 12(9), 1771. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12091771

Flexner, N., Bernstein, J. T., Weippert, M. V., Labonté, M.-È., Christoforou, A. K., Ng, A. (Praneet), & L’Abbe, M. R. (2023). How Many Diet-Related Non-Communicable Disease Deaths Could Be Averted or Delayed If Canadians Reduced Their Consumption of Calories Derived from Free Sugars Intake? A Macrosimulation Modeling Study. Nutrients, 15(8), 1835. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15081835

Mulligan, C., Potvin Kent, M., Christoforou, A. K., & L’Abbé, M. R. (2020). Inventory of marketing techniques used in child-appealing food and beverage research: a rapid review. International Journal of Public Health, 65(7), 1045–1055. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01444-w

Mulligan, C., Potvin Kent, M., Vergeer, L., Christoforou, A. K., & L’Abbé, M. R. (2021). Quantifying Child-Appeal: The Development and Mixed-Methods Validation of a Methodology for Evaluating Child-Appealing Marketing on Product Packaging. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9), 4769. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094769

Bernstein, J. T., Christoforou, A. K., Flexner, N., & L’Abbe, M. R. (2023). Comparing the nutritional composition of foods and beverages in the Canadian Nutrient File to a large representative database of Canadian prepackaged foods and beverages. PloS One, 18(3), e0280028. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280028

Christoforou, A., Norsen, S., Bernstein, J., & L’Abbe, M. (2021). Examining the Prevalence, Nutritional Quality and Marketing of Foods with Voluntary Nutrient Additions in the Canadian Food Supply. Nutrients, 13(9), 3115. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13093115

Bernstein, J. T., Christoforou, A. K., Weippert, M., & L’Abbé, M. R. (2020). Reformulation of sugar contents in Canadian prepackaged foods and beverages between 2013 and 2017 and resultant changes in nutritional composition of products with sugar reductions. Public Health Nutrition, 23(16), 2870–2878. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020001159

Bernstein, J. T., Christoforou, A. K., Mulligan, C., & L’Abbé, M. R. (2020). Examining the relationship between sugars contents of Canadian foods and beverages and child-appealing marketing. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 111(2), 239–246. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00276-3

Mulligan, C., Christoforou, A. K., Vergeer, L., Bernstein, J. T., & L’Abbé, M. R. (2020). Evaluating the Canadian Packaged Food Supply Using Health Canada’s Proposed Nutrient Criteria for Restricting Food and Beverage Marketing to Children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(4), 1250. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041250

L’Abbe, M., Christoforou, A., Mulligan, C., Vergeer, L., & Bernstein, J. (2020). The impact of proposed nutrient criteria for the display of mandatory front-of-package ‘high-in’ symbols in the Canadian prepackaged foods supply. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 79(OCE2), Article E717. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665120006667

Christoforou, A., Ng, A. (Praneet), Bernstein, J., & L’Abbe, M. (2021). Estimating Usual Sodium Intake and Sodium-to-Potassium Molar Ratios From Urine Excretion Among Canadian Adults: An Analysis of the Canadian Health Measures Survey. Current Developments in Nutrition, 5(Supplement_2), 1020–1020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab053_013

Santos, J. A. R., Christoforou, A., Trieu, K., McKenzie, B. L., Downs, S., Billot, L., Webster, J., & Li, M. (2019). Iodine fortification of foods and condiments, other than salt, for preventing iodine deficiency disorders. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019(2), CD010734. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010734.pub2

Christoforou, A., Dachner, N., Mendelson, R., & Tarasuk, V. (2018). Front-of-package nutrition references are positively associated with food processing. Public Health Nutrition, 21(1), 58–67. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017001057

Christoforou, A., Dachner, N., Mendelson, R., & Tarasuk, V. (2018). Substitute foods are more likely than their traditional food counterparts to display front-of-package references. Facets (Ottawa), 3(1), 455–468. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2017-0094

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