Part 7: Nutrient-dense foods
In the 21st century, we’re experiencing a nutrient famine, with many in the UK already suffering.
Read Covid-19 commentary: 13 features of our pre-Covid food system . . .
Noticing and responding to the frailties and weaknesses of the pre-Covid UK food system as they’re being exposed through this crisis,
Read National Food Strategy #3: The global competition for safe, nutritious food
Our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, published in January 2018, contained this stark warning: We currently import 40% of our food. But that this food won’t be available in the future. The “long-term” future we looked at...
Read The Chief Medical Officer’s recommendations affect the food system
England’s CMO, Professor Dame Sally Davies, made fifteen recommendations in her 2018 Report: Health 2040 — Better Health Within Reach. Of these, five are directly concerned with the food we eat, and two others (about multi-morbidity) have implications for...
Read Our economic priority: The huge & growing food & drink sector
Our Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) asked us to respond to their draft Strategic Economic Plan 2016-2030. So we did, and you can read what we said here.
Read Birmingham as a ‘laboratory’: Changing diets, changing landscapes
How are we going to feed the world’s growing population? This is a really hard problem, taxing the brains of leading scientists as well as governments and the likes of the United Nations.
Read Of course I’m not suggesting that YOU’RE over weight…
My son had his height and weight checked as part of the National Child Measurement Programme today. He was annoyed and I was surprised that he was told his height, but not his weight. This wasn’t a local decision but...
Read Chief Medical Officer: Recommendation #1 Government includes obesity on the nation risk register
Earlier this week, the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies published her latest Annual Report, The health of the 51%: Women. Her first recommendation is that the Government includes obesity on the national risk register.
Read The Rudd Center’s Roberta Friedman & forensic accountancy expert Lisa Jack join our Panel of Experts
We're delighted that Roberta Friedman, Director of Public Policy at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and Lisa Jack of Portsmouth Business School's Food Fraud Group have joined our Panel of Experts.
Read 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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