Category: Nutrition and public health

VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies in the Journal of Public Health

We’re pleased that our article VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies appears in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Public Health. It begins with this important statement: “It’s time to curb the activities of...

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What does Tim Spector eat in a day?

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Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health

Few consider the so-called ‘drug-foods’ in the context of food safety. I have done so here, because our over-consumption of them presents dangers to both human and planetary health.

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Criterion 3: What are their recommendations to curb the power of corporates who make and promote products that damage human and planetary health?

None of the recommendations made will curb the power of these corporates, the third of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy.

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Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?

Regarding the first of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy: The answer to this question is no.

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A nutrient famine has already arrived

Almost a third of children aged 5-10 year eat less than one portion of veg a day.

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The perils of synthetic ‘food’ products and cheap carbs . . .

It’s concerning that a swathe of edible products are, in essence, synthetic; i.e. industrialised separation of plant and animal substances, plus undergoing chemical modification and often combined with inorganic chemicals, mostly from the petroleum industry.

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Category: Nutrition and public health

VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies in the Journal of Public Health

What does Tim Spector eat in a day?

Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health

Criterion 3: What are their recommendations to curb the power of corporates who make and promote products that damage human and planetary health?

Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?

A nutrient famine has already arrived

The perils of synthetic ‘food’ products and cheap carbs . . .

Emergency food planning — is it possible at a local authority level?

It’s time to act against drug-food corporations for the health of the population and the planet

Covid-19 commentary: Re-think food and farming on this week’s Farming Today