Blogposts – Page 40 – Birmingham Food Council

Cadbury et al: Friends or foes?

Here in Birmingham we’ve had a very special relationship with Cadbury’s for donkey’s years. Bournville was living proof that factory work, even low-skilled and boringly repetitive, could be a vital part of a life well-led in a thriving neighbourly...

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Potato eyes

Do you remember when potatoes had eyes? When did you last have to dig one out?

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DEFRA’s Food Statistics Pocketbook 2014

DEFRA’s Food Statistics Pocketbook 2014 was published earlier this month — and an interesting read its 60-odd pages are too. In a two-page summary (pp8-9), it gives some numbers about the scale of what it takes to feed 64M people safely and...

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Eat food (not edible food-like substances), not too much, mostly plants

Seven words: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants . . . is the way to go, according to Michael Pollan on the BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme, along with a load of other intriguing perspectives.

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Tackling food poverty in Manchester

A YouTube video about the week of action in tackling food poverty in Greater Manchester: 13th-19th October

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Ron Finlay: A guerilla gardener from South Central in Los Angeles

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus...

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I don’t waste food… except…

Discussions about food waste tend to be accompanied by incomprehensibly large numbers…

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How artificial sweeteners cause weight gain

We know that sugar is best avoided, certainly when trying to lose weight. So artificial sweeteners must be a good thing, right? Wrong…

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Do Older People Eat Well?

1 in 10 people over the age of 65 is malnourished or at risk of malnourishment a recent literature review looking at ways to ensure older people eat well tells us…

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Childhood obesity in Birmingham

Birmingham has the 311th highest rate of childhood obesity of 324 Local Authorities – one in four of our children is obese by the time they leave primary school.

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