Articles in the Public Health Category
The rumours circulating around the future of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) were made official on July 20, 2010 with a Prime Minister’s ministerial statement. The FSA is to remain as a non-ministerial department …
The independent research company, Datamonitor, yesterday released its report on the rate of Britain’s child obesity. Alarmingly, the report declared that British children are spending nearly twice as much annually on sweets and chocolates, with British …
This is a video presentation by Professor Tim Lang on the the New Fundamentals, those being the key areas of concern for global food security and sustainability. Professor Lang, in his lecture at the Garden …
City University’s Centre for Food Policy has grown to become one of the nation’s leading voices in food policy. Led by Prof. Tim Lang the centre not only is the leading food policy academic program …
President Obama’s Health Care Bill caused a great stir in the public media yet beyond the issue of insurance coverage the bill has also facilitated other, less publicized benefits for public health. One such benefit …
In 2008, the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) Food Study Group hosted a conference entitled “Food, Society and Public Health”. As a result of the success of that conference a 2nd BSA Food Study Group Conference …
Dr. Barry Popkin has done pioneering work on the ‘Nutrition Transition’, how commercial urbanization is altering diets, with consideration to environment, income, lifestyle and food availability. The nutrition transition examines how dietary habits are transitioning …
There has been significant discussion over food and beverage advertising targeted at children, particularly through the medium of television. This journal article entitled, Prevalence of Food and Beverage Brands in Movies: 1996-2005 by Pediatrics, Official …
Michael Pollan’s book, the Omnivore’s Dilemma, was noteworthy for popularising and illuminating the issue of food traceability. For millenniums food traceability would have not have needed to be explained, yet now we live in a time where …
The Taylor Francis journal, Hunger & Environmental Nutrition presented this publication as their 2009 Christmas present. This special edition of the journal is entitled Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and …
