Bulging Britain: is the diet industry causing confusion? What advice should we follow? And how simple should it be to lose weight? … One in four Britons is now obese. Tonight: Fighting Fat: Back to Basics, ITV 2018
Which one [diet] do you choose? ibid.
Our bodies process the food we eat differently depending on the time of day … I’m not processing food as efficiently at night. The Truth About Obesity, BBC 2018
How close are you to food poverty? Communities fighting back. Families on the brink. Are are foodbanks really part of the solution? … Britain is one of the world’s richest nations but it now has more foodbanks than ever before as well as an ongoing debate about how to ensure the nation’s children are properly fed … Now there are more than 2,000. Tonight: On the Breadline: Foodbank Britain? ITV 2021
How what you eat affects the way you age. So which diet is best? How to pick healthy choices. And by eating well, can we turn around some of our health problems? Tonight: How to Age Well: Your Food, ITV 2023
What exactly is ultra-processed food? How dangerous is it? Can it make you eat more? … Is so-called ultra-processed food expanding our waistlines and making us ill? Tonight: Ultra-Processed Food, ITV 2023
Food must be served by caring hands … Not by machines. Keeps our spirits up. Makes us feel loved. Felicia’s Journey 1999 starring Bob Hoskins & Arsinee Khanjian & Elaine Cassidy & Sheila Reid & Nizwar Karanj & Ali Yassine & Petre McDonald & Kriss Dosanjh & Gerard McSorley & Marie Stafford et al, director Atom Egoyan, Joe to salesman
If you had told someone two decades ago that by 2018 the company that commercialised chemical warfare and the company that commercialised Agent Orange were going to team up to control a quarter of the world’s food supply, the chances are you would have been labelled a loony. The Corbett Report, ‘Bayer + Monsanto = A Match Made in Hell’, James Corbett online 2018
With this month’s announcement that Bayer had completed its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto it is hard to deny that [Robert] Shapiro’s [former Monsanto CEO] vision has been realised … That vision is a nightmare … A match made in Hell. ibid.
This hatred of Monsanto is not unreasonable; it is after all difficult to think of a company that has ruined the lives of more people around the world. ibid.
Bayer: This legacy of death … wanton environmental destruction, injury and even mass murder. ibid.
‘Worldwide we’re looking at approximately 350 million people with diabetes. There is no question that we’re in the midst of a diabetes epidemic.’ What the Health, Dr Robert Ratner, 2017
‘Processed meat is clearly linked to an increase in cancer.’ ibid. television news
The World Health Organisation classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen. ibid.
Today with two-thirds of Americans being overweight clearly there is a food issue: in the next 25 years one out of every three Americans will have diabetes. ibid.
As destructive as diabetes is, it pales in comparison to heart disease … The leading cause of death around the world. ibid.
‘The number one dietary source of cholesterol in America is chicken.’ ibid. Dr Joel Kahn
Countries with the highest diary consumption have the highest rates of osteoporosis. ibid.
How concerned do we need to be about drugs in our food? ibid.
The very animals we were killing were killing us. ibid.
From this moment forward I decree no more schnitzel or strudel. Let’s get some American food on the menu. Fargo s2e10: Palindrome, Milligan, Netflix 2017
Ready meals: it’s a huge industry worth almost £1 billion. But are you getting what you pay for? The UK eats more ready meals than anywhere else in Europe, a staggering 79 million meals every year. Are They a Con? s1e3: Ready Meals, Channel 5 2020
Salmonella: not what you’d expect from a bag of salad. ibid.
Health products: from low fat foods to vitamin supplements, snack bars to medicines, there probably isn’t a house in Britain that doesn’t have at least a handful of these. But are we getting what we think we’re paying for? Are They a Con? s1e2: Health Products
The UK has the 6th largest beauty and health care market in the world worth billions of pounds each year. ibid.
Superfood … means nothing. ibid.
Online intolerance tests … There’s no actual scientific evidence to suggest intolerance tests work at all. ibid.
The most fragmented decade of them all: 1970s. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was a time of wisdom, it was a time of foolishness, the ’70s started on a rising tide of ’60s’ optimism and modernity. The Home that 2 Built s1e2: Seventies, BBC 2014
We needed a domestic goddess. We needed Delia … In Delia’s first cookery course on [BBC] 2 she taught the basics. ibid.
During lockdown we changed the way we think about food. Supermarkets struggle and eating out was ruled out … Five months into the crisis, we’ve got new habits … Have we changed the way we eat? Panorama: Has Lockdown Changed the Way We Eat? BBC 2020
We are still buying more groceries than before. ibid.
Staff across the whole of the food industry have been on the front line throughout the pandemic. ibid.
The UK is facing rising levels of ill health. There’s growing concern about some of the food we eat … The possible links between artificial sweeteners and serious illness … Exclusive new evidence linking food additives to cancer. Panorama: Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health? BBC 2022
‘We’re consuming too much ultra-processed food. People consuming more ultra-processed food have higher rates of disease and death.’ ibid. expert
One of the most controversial additives, often used in ultra-processed food is the sweetener Aspartame. 200 times sweeter than sugar, it’s used in thousands of products often marketed as low-calorie. There have been question about its safety over the past two decades. ibid.