Stories on food
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Features
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Time for a hard look at a ‘soft disaster’
As the health select committee enquiry into obesity draws to a close, each of us must decide how we will contribute a healthier future, says Kath Dalmeny
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Eating badly for two
The UK has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe – but many pregnant teenagers have a diet that is unhealthy for them and their babies.
Helen Burchett and Annie Seeley explain why nutrition for pregnant teenagers should be a public health priority -
Salt: why the pressure is on
The government and the food industry have been slow to act on evidence of the harmful health effects of salt – and it’s time consumers stepped up the pressure, says Gaynor Bussell
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Food quality lacks taste
Farming and food policy are under scrutiny as never before – yet there’s still little understanding of the close relationships between food, health and sustainability, say Jeanette Longfield and Vicki Hird
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An apple a day...
A good diet may be essential to health – but how much can really be achieved by schemes such as free fruit in schools and food co-ops? Martin Caraher and Annie Anderson examine the evidence
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Today’s lesson: get munching!
One packet of crisps isn’t going to do any harm – but should schools be encouraging the systematic manipulation of children’s diets in order to afford basic materials? Geof Rayner investigates
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Buy organic – local or global?
Responding to our globalisation issue, Erika Zain El Din and colleagues argue that a global organic food trade could be good for us all
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Organic food for thought
Growing organic food benefits the environment – but not if it has to travel thousands of miles, warns Sarah Sexton
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Wrong end of the stick
The Food Standards Agency will be flawed by a focus on food retailers rather than producers, argues David Kilcoyne
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The world is hungry for justice, not genetics
Claims that genetically modified foods will help eradicate famine are bogus says Sarah Sexton, who examines the links between corporate greed and human hunger
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Time to get things rolling
That food poverty still exists in Britain is a scandal which should be tolerated no longer — and there’s plenty that could be done, argues Jacqui Webster
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On our own doorstep
Before British politicians attend the World Food Summit in Rome later this year they must respond to the food insecurity of many of their own citizens, says Jacqui Webster
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Feeding off failure
The diet industry grows rich selling products which promise dreams but deliver failure, argues Mary Evans Young
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Bread and real life
Peta Cottee explains why healthy eating on a low income doesn’t always make sense
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Enough of the sweet talking
Vested interests are working against the interests of better dental health, warns Stephen Hancocks
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Keep taking the garlic
Two cloves a day keeps the doctor away, claims David Roser. But what exactly does garlic do — apart from the obvious?
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A quarterpounder with cheese, french fries and... a pill?
Worried about cholesterol? Forget diet — the drug companies have plans. James Erlichman reports
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Interview
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Fighting for the tooth
The sugar industry is up in arms over new WHO dietary guidelines. Steve Iliffe asked Aubrey Sheiham to assess the industry’s arguments
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News
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Food industry is lobbying hard to head off regulation
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Obesity rise in southern Europe
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News in brief 1
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Moves to cut salt could save lives
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Supermarkets to become GM-free zones
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Food standards watchdog ‘must be given more teeth’
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BSE: the Ministry of Agriculture ‘cannot be trusted’
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Spectre of child malnutrition looms here, warns charity
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Concerns over independence of new food safety body
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1980s: a decade of diarrhoea
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Good food — glowing with irradiation
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Cholesterol checks are unjustified
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When it comes to the crunch
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Reviews
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Sensible and dispassionate
The Oxford Book of Health Foods
JG Vaughan and PA Judd
Oxford University Press, 2003. £19.99 -
Food for thought
Food With Latitude: a report exploring food project links across the North-South divide
Anna Watson and Sally Hiscock
Sustain, 2002. £20.00 -
Food policy digested
Perfectly Safe to Eat? The facts on food
Vicki Hird
Women’s Press, 2000, £8.99 -
Beyond the baskets
GM FREE: a shopper’s guide to genetically modified food
Sue Dibb and Tim Lobstein
Virgin, 1999, £4.99 -
Consuming with care
What the label doesn’t tell you
Sue Dibb
Thorsons, 1997, £6.99 -
A weight off your mind
Diet Breaking: Having It All Without Having To Diet
Mary Evans Young
You Count, Calories Don’t
Linda Omichinski with Mary Evans Young
Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, 1996 -
Unhappy eater
PESTICIDES AND YOUR FOOD: HOW TO REDUCE THE RISKS TO YOUR HEALTH
Andrew Watterson
Greenprint, 1991, £7.99 -
Crises of overconsumption
FOOD FOR WEALTH OR HEALTH?
Robin Jenkins
Socialist Health Association, 1991, £3.50 -
Eaten in a slurry
FAST FOOD FACTS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REALLY UGLY OF FAST FOODS
Tim Lobstein
Camden Press, £4.95
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