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The Trust has been fortunate to have hosted a number of lectures since it began in 1988, all of which have been given by distinguished scientists and policy makers. Each lecture highlights a specific important aspect of the relationship between good food and public health. All of these lectures are now available as PDF downloads. Although the PDFs are free, donations can be made via PayPal and are much appreciated.
The text and tables contained in these lectures can be reproduced by anyone involved in providing food as long as an acknowledgement is made to the Caroline Walker Trust.
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2004: School Meals and Sustainable Food Chains
Professor Kevin Morgan
The school meal is at the forefront of the debate about the health of our young people and Kevin Morgan proposes that the school meals service is a prism through which we can examine some of the larger questions that face us today.
How can the public realm re-assert itself and begin to set demanding and innovative standards for health and well being?
How can public procurement become a creative force for sustainable development rather than being stymied by (real and imagined) regulations from Brussels and London?
He argues that the search for the 'big idea' to tackle obesity is a forlorn quest, for the simple reason that there isn't one. We have to recognize that there are lots of 'little ideas' and these need to be synchronized if we are ever to realize the multiple dividends of healthy school meals.
Kevin Morgan is Professor of European Regional Development in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. His research interests revolve around four main themes: sustainable agri-food chains; innovation in the private and public sector; regional development and political devolution. He has acted as an advisor to the OECD, European Commission, and regional governments and development agencies throughout the European Union. |
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2003: The Fate of Nations
Geoffrey Cannon
Geoffrey Cannon affirms that 'the fate of nations is determined by what they eat'. Food and nutrition policy is a political issue. Food systems based on or backed by nutrition science have literally changed the size and shape of much of the human race.
He identifies general principles of mainstream nutrition science and its application to global food policies, originally devised in previous times of industrial and imperial expansion.
He proposes that these are now mostly useless or destructive, and should be set aside and replaced. He advocates a revolutionary 'new map': a new general theory designed to empower nutrition science to improve human health, and also that of the whole living and natural world.
Geoffrey Cannon has worked on nutrition and food policy since the early 1980s. He was married to Caroline Walker and is a founder of the Caroline Walker Trust. He now lives and works in Brazil, and has been a member of both UK and Brazilian government delegations to the World Health Organization. In Britain he was chairman of the National Food Alliance (now Sustain), and director of Science of the World Cancer Research Fund. He is a best-selling author and prizewinning journalist and campaigner. |
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2002: The Role of Nutrition in Human Evolution
Professor Michael A Crawford
A great deal of recent scientific interest has refocused attention on Darwinian theories of human evolution. A lively debate has arisen over the relevance and significance of human evolutionary theory on contemporary society.
In the fifteenth annual Caroline Walker lecture, Professor Michael A Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition at the London Metropolitan University, outlines the possible role of nutrition in human evolution.
Michael Crawford as a distinguished and experienced researcher into brain chemistry and evolution provides an expert vision of this topic.
The Caroline Walker Trust is grateful to the Co-operative Group for its support in the publication of this lecture. |
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2001: Inadequacies in Health - The Role of Nutrition
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Health is unequally distributed within and between societies - what role does nutrition play in these inequalities?
Following the publication of the Acheson Inquiry the government has implemented several social and health policy initiatives aimed at reducing inequalities in health.In spite of these developments, gaps remain in our understanding of the basis of health inequalities.
Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Society at University College London, a leading authority in research into health inequalities, provides an expert insight into the potential role of nutrition as a causative factor. |
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2000: The Food Standards Agency - A Vision for the Future
Sir John Krebbs
After many months of delay and speculation over its role and composition, the Food Standards Agency was established on 1st April 2000.
In its first few months of existence the Agency has rarely been out of the media's attention. The BSE crisis, concerns over pesticide safety and the evidence of the beneficial effects of organic food have all been issues that the Agency has reviewed.
In the Thirteenth Annual Caroline Walker Lecture Sir John Krebs, Chairman of the Food Agency outlined his personal assessment of the performance of the Agency in its first few months. In the lecture he presents a defence of the Agency's work and its independence. With reference to BSE he illustrates the pragmatic approach adopted by the Agency.
The lecture provides a unique insight into the working of the Food Standards Agency and what to expect in the future. |
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Lectures from 1990 - 1999...
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