Food Magazine issue 85
New all colour issue!
April/June 2009
Additive laden products expose weakeness of 'voluntary ban'
110 products found in one hour that contain additives associated with increased hyperactivity in children.
Signpost labelling wrangle continues
Mixed reactions to the Food Standards Agency long awaited expert report on front of pack labelling.
Calorie information on UK menus
More on the voluntary scheme to get catreing establishments to sign up to calorie labelling at the point of sale.
2-a-day the smoothie way
Following an Innocent ad campaign, The Food Magazine asked the Department of Health to clear up the confusion.
Advertising junk
Junk food ads account for around half of television adverts for food that are shown when children are likely to be watching.
Read yourself thin
Jessica Mitchell takes a humourous look at some of the numerous self help diet books on sale.
Change4Life......
Dr. Helen Crawley, public health nutritionist and director of the Caroline Walker Trust, asks if the £75million of government moneyspent on Change4Life will change family food habits for the better.
Fat prejudice is not ok
Dr Rebecca Puhl of Yale University on why Western prejudice towards overweight and obese people shames us all, and does nothing for public health.
Why GM food is hard to swallow
Peter Rosset from the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico on why negative attitudes towards GM food and crops just won't go away.
A magic roundabout for recycling food
Jessica Mitchell investigates better uses for your 5-a-day scraps than throwing them in your bin.
A nation fit for pregnancy?
The Food Magazine investigates pregnancy and health.
Book Review Special
Tim Lobstein, Bee Wilson and Tom Jaine, of Prospect Books, recommend some essential food reading.
Legal, decent, honest and true?
Misleading food and drink advertisements should be regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority. The Food Magazine reports on recent adjudications involving death-defying pomegranates, Gary Rhodes and Flora Buttery, and Muller Little Stars.
Backbites
Bad science, chucking booze of the checkout, why Pringles are crisps after all, how you can play the computer game version of a television cookery programme, and more...
