Articles published in The Food Magazine
Articles are grouped by year.
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2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 Companies spend around £20 a year, per baby, promoting their products. Meanwhile, the UK Government spends a measly 14 pence promoting breastfeeding for those same babies. (23/11/2006)
The Department of Health's ‘five a day’ logo may have been ignored by most food manufacturers, but they've not been slow in piggy-backing the advice that we should eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. (23/11/2006)
Destructive fishing methods result in a quarter of all fish caught being thrown away. The Food Magazine reports. (23/11/2006)
The Government has received its most convincing warning yet that we must all take action to tackle climate change, but failed to emphasise food as one of the main ways to deliver change. (23/11/2006)
Food Magazine asks: what income do people need to have a decent life? (23/11/2006)
Emma Hockridge reports on food and farming in the world’s fastest growing economy. (24/08/2006)
The market for 'one-a-day' probiotic and prebiotic products is huge, but are they necessary? Ian Tokelove reports. (24/08/2006)
As Ofcom dithers over the control of TV junk food advertising, the advertisers are finding new ways to connect to children. Ian Tokelove reports. (24/08/2006)
Colonel Sanders may lose his finger-lickin' appeal if a private lawsuit in the US wins when it gets to court. (24/08/2006)
Barrie Margetts, Editor in Chief of Public Health Nutrition, examines the issue of fraudulant and commercially motivated nutrition research. (21/05/2006)
Barrie Margetts, Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Public Health Nutrition, examines the issue of commercially motivated and sometime fraudulent nutrition research. (21/05/2006)
Erik Millstone, Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, warns that recent research into the artificial sweetener aspartame is being ignored by food regulators. (21/05/2006)
More than 5,000 farms and organisations joined forces with the United Nations Environment Programme in April to reinvigorate the phase-out of an agricultural fumigant that damages the ozone layer. (21/05/2006)
In May, the press hinted that Disney might cease to associate its popular children’s characters with junk food, after the entertainment company ended a 10-year partnership with McDonald’s. A change of heart? We fear not. (21/05/2006)
It has taken over two years for Ofcom to suggest how it might regulate junk food ads aimed at children. It wasn’t worth the wait, says Richard Watts of the Children’s Food Bill campaign. (21/05/2006)
A new children's food website designed to inform young teenagers about processed foods and the marketing techniques used to promote such foods. (29/01/2006)
A healthy diet can do more than lead to a healthy body. Courtney Van De Weyer reports on the latest research linking nutrition to behaviour and mental health. (29/01/2006)
Anyone noticing the odd reference to food products during TV shows have not seen anything yet. Under new proposals from the EU such covert advertising, known as 'product placement', is set to boom. (29/01/2006)
Discredited ‘Terminator’ technology is being relaunched by biotech companies. Terminator technology, patented in the US in 1998, sterilises seeds in order to force farmers and gardeners to buy new seed each season. (29/01/2006)
Supermarket ASDA has promised to improve the sustainability of its fish supplies after coming lowest in a list of supermarkets rated for their fisheries policies. (29/01/2006)
The mineral content of popular meats and milk products has fallen significantly. The Food Magazine reports. (29/01/2006)
