Nutrition & Food Science: Volume 32 Issue 6

A Web‐based survey on adolescents’ perceptions of food

This article focuses on the assessment of adolescents’ perceptions of the importance of food using the World Wide Web. Adolescents were found to be much aware of health‐related…

The beneficial role of peanuts in the diet – an update and rethink! Peanuts and their role in CHD

This paper summarises recent evidence and consider a more constructive positioning for peanuts and peanut butter within the UK diet. It also briefly discusses the protective role…

Multi‐dimensional analysis of consumer‐perceived risk in chicken meat

Consumer risk perception plays an important role during periods of food safety concern because it shapes the behaviour of consumers. Multi‐dimensional analysis helps to provide a…

Does caffeine protect against Parkinson’s disease? A preliminary study

This preliminary paper reviews recent evidence that suggests that there is a strong link between increasing consumption of caffeine and reduced incidence of Parkinson’s disease…

Children’s diets: should they be taken with a pinch of salt?

Evidence for the harmful effect of salt on the health of adults is growing and is now so overwhelming that government authorities and health experts are recommending that adults…

Editorial

Gluten Free Digest is produced by Gluten Free Foods Ltd

Food allergy past present and future seminars held by Nestle UK Ltd

Nutrition Advisory Group for Elderly People

Food Standards Agency – leaflets on healthy eating

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) codes of recommendations for the welfare of livestock

Complementary feeding – current evidence and future direction – Institute of Child Health, London, 21-22 November 2002

Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA) Annual Conference

Metal Matters – a conference organised by the British Nutrition Foundation on 1 November 2002

The meeting of the Autism Special Interest Group held on 29 May 2002 at Princess Marina Hospital, Northampton