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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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1999: Future Food: Two radical views of 21st Century Eating
Michael Heasman and Colin Tudge
Two lectures: The functional food revolution - a new nutrition agenda for a new century (Michael Heasman)
and Functional foods and pharmacological impoverishment - and why 'nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of evolution'. |
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1998: The Nanny State: what will Nanny do when we grow up?
Sheila McKechnie
What role should the government take in protecting consumers and promoting public health? Discussions on this issue - and the appropriate role of the state in our daily lives - often turn to the concept of 'the nanny state'. Where does sensible public health policy end and nannying begin?
Sheila McKechnie's thought-provoking analysis explores the issues behind this explosive phrase. She argues that the debate around nannying has obscured some difficult issues and that we need to face up to the complexity of modern life and not run away from it. |
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1997: Nutrition in the future: thinking the unthinkable
Professor Philip James
Phillip James was the leading nutritionist in Britain prepared to speak out and say that as a nation we have a wonderful chance to improve our health by means of good food. In 1997 he produced the blueprint for a UK Food Standards Agency with powers to ensure that healthy food choices become increasingly easy choices. This was followed in 1998 by a White Paper, and it is this that provides a part of the theme for this lecture. |
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1996: The Making of Modern Malnutrition
Suzi Leather
What is 'food poverty'? Are people really malnourished in 1990s Britain? Suzi Leather's clear-sighted analysis documents a new type of malnutrition, quite unlike the food shortages of previous centuries.
We do not have too little food; but we have too many people not getting decent food. She knows how, beginning in 1906 and increasingly from the 1930s, ground-breaking social and nutritional policies were designed to banish food poverty - and how that good work has all but been undone.
She examines the effect of a poor diet on parents and familities, quoting from her interviews with people who are, in their own words, 'eating shite'. And she provides ten recommendations: a constructive, co-operative approach to future policy-making that could banish food poverty from our country once again.
Intended for policy-makers in food, public health, local and national government, this report is also compulsive reading for anyone who cares about social justice in the UK. |
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1995: Food and the public interest
Christopher Haskins
The contents of this lecture were -
The public's excitement over food; When food means survival; Famine, food and political consequences - The Corn Laws; A return to protectionism; Rebuffing the Reverend Malthus; The costs of progress; Dangerous delusions about protectionism, organics and science; New priorities for a modern Government; Making good food affordable; The role of the manufacturer; The safety of food; Responsible production - a question of balance; Three areas where Government should intervene; Ensuring proper competition, Protecting workers against exploitation, Protecting the environment, The public interest in Britain today. |
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1994: Content with a Vegetable Love
Professor John Potter
We know that plant foods - vegetables and fruit in particular - have health benefits. There is more and more evidence that they protect against cancer.
But which foods offer most protection? Which types of cancer are prevented? And how do these protective mechanisms work?
John Potter is a US-based professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Head of the Cancer Research Prevention Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the same city. He is a research scientist at the leading edge of diet and cancer.
But what marks him out is a special gift for communicating complex science to non-specialists. In this book he explains how cells become cancerous, and how chemicals in plants can slow the process down or stop it altogether.
He brings together dozen of studies which suggest that the effect of plant foods is to cut your cancer risk by half, at least. Better still, he tells you why! |
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1993: No Nation can rise above the level of its Women
Margaret & Arthur Wynn
We know that plant foods – vegetables and fruit in particular – have health benefits. There is more and more evidence that they protect against cancer. |
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1992: New Concepts in Human Nutrition in the Twentieth Century; The Special Role of Micronutrients
Sir Francis Avery Jones CBE MD FRCP
Sir Francis reviews important concepts in human nutrition and their protaganists in the twentieth century. He concludes that advice to the nation regarding nutrition should emphasise the positive rather than restrictive. |
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1991: Intensive farming, The Cap and GATT
James Goldsmith
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1990: Labour's Healthy Food Policy
Dr David Clark MP, Shadow Minister for Food and Agriculture
Dr David Clark MP, Shadow Minister for Food and Agriculture, announced that Labour is placing healthy and safe food on the political agenda for the first time in Britain. He argued that there is now a world-wide consensus on the link between food and health, that Britain has the worst death rates from heart disease and certain cancers and that the Government is still refusing to act.
Giving his keynote address to the Caroline Walker Trust’s Second Annual Meeting at the Royal Society of Arts. Dr Clark claimed "Not eating fresh fruit and vegetables poses as great a risk of getting cancer as smoking." |
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