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Open Meeting: THE FATS OF BRAINS AND WAISTLINES Monday 19th November 2007 6pm - 9.30pm The Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB Prof David Morley - Cleave Lecture: 'Growth Monitoring over 40 Years' Prof...

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ABOUT US
Today, the ethics and fundamentals of the McCarrison Society are needed more than ever before and not just for the leading affluent countries. Peoples worldwide are facing a serious challenge from the rise in non-communicable diseases. These diseases...

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The Aims Of The McCarrison Society The purpose of the Society is to assemble scientific knowledge on nutrition and health that is free from economic and political pressures with the object of securing the physical and mental health of future generations...

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Publications
"Nutrition and Health" Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that exists to explore new ideas and to disseminate the findings of nutrition research of all kinds. The journal serves both a professional and a general readership and...

other publications
Here we list Publications by Members of the McCarrison Society, available for browsing, purchase and/or download, to Registered users of the website (free), to Members of the McCarrison Society, and in some cases for a charge or suggested Donation...

HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH POLY
HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH POLY After finishing my doctorate in chemical pathology at the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, London in 1960, I worked five years at Makerere Medical School in Uganda, and I became mainly interested in the pathogenesis of...

J Reeves: The roots of health
With the permission of the Author, John Reeves The Influence of Agriculture on Mineral Nutrition and Health INTRODUCTION I would like to start with just one cautionary tale from history. There was, in the Ohio River valley, a nation of...

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Notes for Contributors
(download as Microsoft Word Document) (Notes on policy and writing style) Nutrition and Health: Notes for Contributors Language: The official language of the journal is British English. Submission by post: Papers...

Policy and writing style
(download as Microsoft Word Document) (Notes for Contributors) Nutrition and Health: Notes on policy and writing style Nutrition and Health is a peer-reviewed academic journal that exists to explore new ideas and...

Journal November 2006 Contents list
Contents of the forthcoming issue of the Nutrition and Health November 2006 (subject to changes in proof) Foreword: Setting the sceneMargaret Esiri. Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Margaret.esiri@clneuro.ox.ac.uk ...

Journal Winter 2005/2006
Title list of forthcoming papers in the next issue of the Journal of the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health. Are neurodegenerative disorder and psychotic manifestations avoidable brain dysfunctions with adequate dietary Omega-3? Letten F...

currentnewsletter
Current Newsletter of the McCarrison Society is available for on-line browsing and download for Members of the McCarrison Society only....

40/3 Newsletter Edition January 2007 (Sites Admins Only)

40/2 Newsletter Download
Latest Newsletter Winter 2006 40/2 Members of the McCarrison Society may download the latest Newsletter here (Microsoft Word, 855 KB) Contents Editorial Children's stress and the Unborn Child Tunisian Conference Report...

40/2 Newsletter Edition Winter 2006 Contents
Latest Newsletter Winter 2006 40/2 Members of the McCarrison Society may go here to download the latest Newsletter Contents Editorial Children's stress and the Unborn Child Sources: Opportunities for Health, Education,...

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Previous Newsletters Edition of the McCarrison Society are available for on-line browsing and download for Registered users and Members of the McCarrison Society only....

NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition
Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition Edition 40/1 Summer 2006 The McCarrison Society Newsletter Nutrition Quality Health Editorial “All that is necessary...

Newsletter Edition 39/1 Autumn 2005 "Nutrition Quality Health"
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Women Will Eliminate Poverty in the UK
[ Back ] Women Will Eliminate Poverty in the UK Memo to Gordon Brown in April 2005 which was followed by a meeting at the Treasury. Introduction The purpose of this memo is to alert the Treasury to the high cost of inaction on the inequality...

Newsletter Edition 38/1 Spring 2004 "The Answers Lie in Sea and Soil"
Newsletter Edition 38/1 Spring 2004 "The Answers Lie in Sea and Soil" (edited for the web by Trevor Bennett) Only Registered website users and Members of the McCarrison Society can use the following links. Please Register if you have not yet done so...

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UK Fisheries Policy
The UK's DEFRA (Dept of Food and Rural Affairs) has asked for urgent responses to their vision for marine fisheries in England for the next 20 years, and the Consumers' Food Group are coordinating these responses. If you are logged in, you can add comments...

CFG DEFRA Consultation
This is an opportunity for McCarrison AND Foodaware members to comment in line on CFG's response to Defra using a WIKI. You need to be registered on this web site if you are not already, and logged in ...

Sustain AGM agrees to explore Low-Birthweight issues
A number of organisations present at the recent Sustain AGM, but particularly the McCarrison Society, confirmed the importance of good nutrition for both men and women in the pre-conceptual period, and for women during pregnancy, particularly early pregnancy...

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38/1 Editorial
Editorial This Spring edition of our newsletter brings cheer with news that will gladden hearts and minds. We are delighted to discover that our news is being relayed by so many publications, some of them major. We ask publishers please to support...

38/1 Nourishing Brains for Mental Gains
Nourishing Brains for Mental Gains by Simon H House For mental acuity to reach full genetic potential, or to minimize mental disorder and violence, sound nutrition for the brain is essential. Mental disorder will top global burden of disease by 2020,...

38/1 Future Events
Future Events LETTEN SYMPOSIUM ON BRAIN FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION July 18 – 22 2004 Nutrient Interaction with Gene Expression Nutrition Society joint colloquium at the Biochemical...

38/1 More Fish Consumption
[ Back ] More Fish Consumption, More Blood Docosahexaenoic Acid and Less Chronic Diseases in Chinese Rural Populations By Yiqun Wang The Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition (IBCHN) were involved in a most comprehensive...

38/1 Depleted Soils
Depleted Soils Threaten Human, Animal & Plant Health Cleave Lecture & Conference Report Held in the Franklin Room at the Institute of Physics, Portland Place. Representatives of some of Britain’s most respected Associations...

38/1 Commendable Quotes
Commendable Quotes… Jack Challem – ‘Nutrition reporter’, writing on rheumatoid arthritis in NOHA NEWS (Vol XXIX, No 1) says “In the past people often obtained the building blocks of cartilage by chewing meat down...

38/1 Syndrome X
Syndrome X Dr Bob Lister, a consultant in clinical nutrition and Chair of the Institute of Brain Chemistry & Human Nutrition at the London Metropolitan University, investigates Syndrome X, a condition which is closely linked to the epidemic...

38/1 Townsend Report Part Two
Townsend Report Part Two Michael Crawford concludes his observations on the Report: The Report fails to describe the METHOD whereby the objectives of health, can be achieved. Low birthweight needs to be recognized as a major, if not the major...

38/1 Report on the Westminster Conference
Report on the Westminster Conference on Obesity 25th November 2003 The size of the new problems of obesity and mental ill health and the need for a radical restructuring of food, agriculture and fisheries. A consistent theme throughout this...

38/1 Letters
MAC Letters From: Neville & Elizabeth Gay [elizabeth@] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:13 PM To: kath@ Cc: Tim Lang Subject: RE: Obesity targeted by new think tank Dear Kath, Thank you for sending us the information...

38/1 Obituary
Obituary We are sad to announce the death on March 31 of Mary Langman, of whom many McCarrison Society members will have fond & special memories. Michael Crawford writes ‘Mary was for many years the most wonderful supporter...

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39/1 Membership news and subscriptions
[ Back ] We are indebted to Trevor Bennett our new webmaster for setting up www.mccarrisonsociety.org.uk We hope Members will visit this interactive site and leave their e-mail address on the contact page for ease of communication. At present, all...

39/1 Editorial
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Verkerk and his team at the Alliance for Natural Health. ANH has been spearheading Europe’s response to the EU’s Food Supplements Directive, which potentially could ban some 300+ vitamin & mineral forms from the market...

39/1 Conference 17 Jan 2006
NURTURE AGAINST PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS 17 January 2006 – PARENTING, NUTRITION AND PRIMAL CARE. Our next conference is organised in conjunction with The International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM) and takes...

39/1 SEER Conference
THE SUSTAINABLE ECOLOGICAL EARTH REGENERATION (SEER) CENTRE CONFERENCE 2005: THE SECRETS OF ROCKDUST An important conference took place at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, amidst the glorious Scottish Highlands, on March 18, 2005. The subject was sustainable...

39/1 BANT Conference
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF NUTRITIONAL THERAPISTS (BANT) CONFERENCE: ‘OVER-FED AND UNDER-NOURISHED’ The British Association of Nutritional Therapists’ conference (12th April 2005), addressed the problem of obesity. Organized by Brighton-based...

39/1 European Court on Food Supplements
EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE ON FOOD SUPPLEMENTS THE ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH SHINES LIGHT ON THE SILVER LINING After detailed analysis of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment with its expert EU barrister Paul Lasok QC, ANH anticipates that...

39/1 Letter from the Chairman
From the Chairman Thank you for your support in the past which has enabled us to make inroads into English, Welsh and Scottish health and food policy. There is no better time than now to press home the initiative to Government and the Food Industry...

39/1 Women Will Eliminate Poverty in the UK
[ Back ] Women Will Eliminate Poverty in the UK Memo to Gordon Brown in April 2005 which was followed by a meeting at the Treasury. Introduction The purpose of this memo is to alert the Treasury to the high cost of inaction on the inequality...

39/1 The Peckham Experiment
[ Back ] The Peckham Experiment Whenever the problems of crime and disorder get too much for us and we start casting around for a cure, someone will always say: ‘More youth facilities. That’s the answer! Give them (the youths) somewhere...

39/1 Future Conferences
Future Conferences 2005 Poitiers, France October 9-12, "The brain evolved its signalling systems in the sea using docosahexaenoic acid: this has remained unchanged for six hundred million years." 2006 17th January Generating Healthy Brains...

Conferences involving or organised in conjunction with the McCarrison Society
Open Meeting: THE FATS OF BRAINS AND WAISTLINES Monday 19th November 2007 6pm - 9.30pm The Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB Prof David Morley - Cleave Lecture: 'Growth Monitoring over 40 Years' Prof...

7 Promises of a shared vision - England
The reader is invited to comment/add to the following working document. Comment here for ENGLANDPromise 1: That all who provide care uphold values that respect and support service users, offering information, skills and resources to make informed...

7 Promises of a shared vision - Scotland
The reader is invited to comment/add to the following working document. Comment here for SCOTLANDPromise 1: That all who provide care uphold values that respect and support service users, offering information, skills and resources to make...

7 Promises of a shared vision - N Ireland
The reader is invited to comment/add to the following working document. Comment here for N IRELANDPromise 1: That all who provide care uphold values that respect and support service users, offering information, skills and resources to make...

7 Promises of a shared vision - Wales
The reader is invited to comment/add to the following working document. Comments here for WALES Promise 1: That all who provide care uphold values that respect and support service users, offering information, skills and resources to make informed...

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01 Rev Simon House MA – McCarrison Society & ISPPM, scientific writer
Preconception to late adolescence; key impacts on brain development & function. The Conference is designed to prioritise practical actions by assembling cutting edge findings. The impact of environment, parental and external, is crucial on sperm...

03 Dr Richard Ashcroft PhD Reader – Biomedical Ethics, Imperial College, London
Priorities for brain science; making a difference. How we ought to prioritise research spending is a difficult problem. On the one hand, we may wish to target research resources on the problems of most pressing social need, but this...

04 Dr Joseph Hibbeln, MD – Chief of Outpatient Clinic, Lab of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry,
CLEAVE LECTURE: Nutrition, the brain and mental ill health. [The impact of deficiencies of omega-3 fats on homicide, suicide and depression and greater risk of developmental trajectories towards lifelong psychopathy.] ...

05 Dr David Thomas DC – nutritionist, chiropractor
Our changing diet; deficits and disorders. Over the past 60 years there have been fundamental changes in the quality and quantity of food available to us as a nation. The character, growing method, preparation, source and...

06 Professor Barry Keverne FRS FMedSci – King's College, Cambridge
The significance of genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour. Autosomal genes which are expressed according to parent of origin receive an epigenetic mark (imprint) when they pass through the germ line, and fail to obey the...

07 Dr Jimmy Bell – Magnetic Resonance Unit, MRC, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London
“Brainfoods”: Modulating Brain Structure and Function There is a paucity of hard evidence on the real impact of foods on brain function. This arises principally from the lack of in vivo biomarkers which would allow objective assessment...

08 Dr Ludwig Janus MD – ISPPM President 1995-2005, Heidelberg
Two Cornerstones in the Psychobiological Development of Mankind: The increase in frequency of pregnancies during the neolithic revolution and ‘physiological prematurity’. Ludwig Janus MD The human being is a product of both biological...

09 Professor Vivette Glover MA, PhD, DSc – Perinatal Psychobiology, Imperial College London.
The effects of maternal anxiety or stress during pregnancy on the fetus and the long term development of the child. There is increasingly strong evidence from several independent large prospective studies that maternal stress/anxiety during...

10 Mr Terence Dowling – Depth Psychosomatologist, ISPPM Heidelberg
New Parenting’, prenatal & perinatal care, psychotherapy. Terence Dowling The health of future generations, both physical and psychological, depends upon good parental and early environment, free particularly from malnutrition, toxins and undue stress...

11 Dr Antonella Sansone – ISPPM, Psychologist, Infant Massage Teacher, Author.
A psycho-soma integration perspective in psychotherapy with parents and infants. Drawing on a single case of a mother-infant difficult relationship, I shall consider the inseparability of psyche and soma and the embodiment of psychosomatic...

12 Ms Toshiko Matsudaira – Institute of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College Lo
Attention deficit disorders – drugs or nutrition? I am currently setting up a study on Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD). ADHD symptoms are often carried out to adolescent period and long-term intervention is often needed...

13 Dr Bob Lister PhD – Chair IBCHN, McCarrison Society, Consultant in clinical nutrition
The metabolic syndrome; problems including mental, obesity, diabetes, heart disease & stroke. The Metabolic Syndrome (MS), also known as Syndrome X, is the most widespread metabolic disease in the developed world. This fact is still...

14 Mr Jack Winkler – Food Health Research, London
Into the Future: Avoiding the Cost of Folly Two themes run through this conference. First, we know the diet necessary to generate healthy brains and, hence, we know the distortions that create mental ill health. Second, people are not eating this diet...

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Founders of Nutrition
On-line versions of a series of booklets published by the McCarrison Society...

Cleave
Surgeon Captain T L Cleave FRCP ‘Long before the year 2000, time will have amply confirmed the Cleave hypothesis, and over-refinement of food will have become part of our history. His name will be added to the roll of the great men who opened up...

Trowell
Dr Hugh Carey Trowell OBE MD FRCP 1904-1989 Shared credit for the identification of kwashiorkor, now known to be the most widespread deficiency disease in the world Identified dietary fibre as the vitally healthy substance in plant foods which is missing...

Cleave - Surgeon Captain TL Cleave FRCP
Surgeon Captain T L Cleave FRCP ‘Long before the year 2000, time will have amply confirmed the Cleave hypothesis, and over-refinement of food will have become part of our history. His name will be added to the roll of the great men who opened up...

Dr Hugh Trowell
Dr Hugh Carey Trowell OBE MD FRCP 1904-1989 Shared credit for the identification of kwashiorkor, now known to be the most widespread deficiency disease in the world Identified dietary fibre as the vitally healthy substance in plant foods which is missing...

Sir Robert McCarrison
Sir Robert McCarrison (1878 - 1960) MA, MD, DSc, LLD, FRCP qualified in Medicine at Queen's College, Belfast in 1900. He joined the Indian Medical Service and was posted as Medical Officer to Indian troops guarding the mountainous Northern Frontiers...

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AGM 19th Nov 2007

Annual General Meeting of the McCARRISON SOCIETY For Nutrition and Health
Monday 19th November 2007 5pm – 6pm Members only To be held at the Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB AGENDA (subject to further amendment. Committee please log in) To be followed by an Open...

Open Meeting: THE FATS OF BRAINS AND WAISTLINES
Open Meeting Monday 19th November 2007 6pm - 9.30pm The Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB Programme .6 - 6.30pm - Prof David Morley - Cleave Lecture: 'Growth Monitoring over 40 Years' 6.30 - 6.40pm Prof Michael...

Annual General Meeting of THE McCARRISON SOCIETY For Nutrition and Health
Monday 19th November 2007 5pm – 6pm Members only To be held at the Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB AGENDA (subject to further amendment. Committee please log in) To be followed by an Open...

fisheries policy
The UK's DEFRA (Dept of Food and Rural Affairs) has asked for urgent responses to their vision for marine fisheries in England for the next 20 years, and the Consumers' Food Group are coordinating these responses. If you are logged in, you can add comments...

deframcrawf1
from Michael Crawford: Consumers can only make the sustainable choices desired as part of the vision if they have relevant information and there perhaps needs to be an aspiration that consumers be better informed about fish and fish products. Do you...

defrashhouse1
from Simon House: Michael's comments on estuarial life prompt the thought that, as with human beings, the marine food-chain problem is a preconceptional one. A lifecycle view is essential, focusing on the most delicate phase, fertilization and reproduction...

deframcrawf2
Simon - Absolutely brilliant Of course Marine life is preconceptional because all life sprang from it. Right from the beginning 3 billion years ago the primordial soup possessed the chemicals (call them nutrients if you...

defratbb1
from Trevor Bennett: Michael and Simon - sparking off each other wonderfully. If either/ any of the recipients can get this into a few sentences that DEFRA will understand it would be even better. Meanwhile I will put all on our website and you can...

deframcrawf3
From Michael Crawford Wow Trevor "stewarding the life cycles of all marine life" Another brilliant quote. Well done stick all on the website. Yes DEFRA should listen but is unlikely to unless pressure comes from outside so go...

defradsmith1
from David Smith Welsh Food Alliance: Can I suggest that McCarrison consider a submission to Defra If you have questions I can arrange for a couple of PQs to be put down just to reinforce this message I have copied Barbara Saunders into this...

UK Government Issues

A UK poverty agenda for the new government
A memorandum on unaffordable housing and the covering letter were despatched to Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street on the 4th (!) May by Lord Morris of Manchester. Peter Ambrose will be presenting the memo at the conference on the 27th May "A UK poverty...

Bird Flu - action from which Government? BRUSSELS OR WESTMINSTER
Bird 'Flu: POWER POLITICSWe hear political commentators pontificating on bird flu: as indeed we heard similar commentaries during the last Foot and Mouth disaster. ‘The Government’ says this, thinks that, will do this, won’t do that...

UK Government goals condemned as shallow
UK: Government sets out goals for a sustainable food industry. Efforts condemned as shallow by the McCarrison Society. Mrs Beckett said: "As an industry the food sector has a significant role to play in achieving a sustainable future for this country...

DEFRA food industry strategy
26 April, 2006 - A STRATEGY to tackle the impact of the food industry on precious resources, such as energy and water and its contribution to climate change, was published by Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, today...

Aids and Malnutrition

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS care
Looking forward to our next conference on 23 October 2006 at the Royal Society, we commend the preparatory materials produced by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) as a set of downloadable presentations. Nutrition and HIV/AIDS:...

Aids in Africa - illiteracy AND MALNUTRITON !
http://www..guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,,1922295,00.html Today’s Guardian article ‘The shame is on us all’: ‘If we really want to tackle the scandalous pandemic of Aids in Africa, we must start by fighting illiteracy’...

Children

Healthy Play project - discussion document
SETTING UP THE PROJECT - Discussion Paper Please add your comments on this page at the bottom. You do not have to log-in but please identify yourself. Thank you. What follows are some of my own preliminary perspectives regarding the logistics...

School Dinners in France
The debate continues in rural France as well. The Pontivy Journal discusses costs, education, nutritional balance, culinary herbs and organic ingredients. Parents here in Central Brittany pay around 2.50 euros per day of which 33% is ingredients cost,...

UK’s first stand-alone centre for paediatric nutrition
Professor Alan Lucas was interviewed today on BBC TV London News. The UK’s first stand-alone centre for paediatric nutrition is to be founded at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, headed by the country’s first appointed medical consultant in...

14 March 2006:Ofsted Reports on School Food
Oftsted have just released two reports in reaction to concerns about school meals (Crown Copyright 2006): Healthy eating in schools, a small scale survey into the quality of school meals. A second report, Food technology in secondary schools, confirms...

Consensus Statement from US and EU citizens groups on marketing of foods to children
from the EU/US Conference, Good practices: Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Brussels 12th May 2006. The Conference took place in the Commission’s Charlemagne building, with closing addresses by Commissioner Kyprianou and...

Junk food banned in school meals
(BBC News 19 May 2006) School dinners in England will be free from chocolate, crisps, fizzy drinks and "low-quality" meat from the autumn, the government has announced. Education Secretary Alan Johnson has published nutrition guidelines banning...

Government initiative may provide Fish oil for all children
Brain food: Why the Government wants your child to take Omega-3, the fish oil supplement A tiny daily capsule can have a dramatic effect on pupils who usually play up in class, improving behaviour and work. Now all youngsters may be given them. Marie...

Childrens' healthy bodies and minds, malnutrition and education, dysfunctional families and ADHD
As reported in the Guardian recently, the International Obesity TaskForce stated "Youngsters should be protected from exploitative marketing techniques used on the internet as well as from television advertising as part of an all out bid to halt...

Conferences

Discuss Roles
Back to Committee Only Need for an overall Editor or editorial board: Web: news and articles - need to be checked for Rights and scientific quality Printed Newsletter: extract from web version only please! Journal: Articles promoted for inclusion...

AGM Agenda
back to Public Agenda This page prints nicely using the | Print | link above to the right COMMITTEE-ONLY VERSION - Please edit and amend as required. You may also add links to new items - instructions to follow. Trevor in purple prose Even without my...

Food Standards Agency meeting for Codex Alimentarius Committee
The 30th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee (CAC) will meet from 2-7 July in Rome. Mr Steve Wearne and Mr Bill Knock will represent the UK at the meeting. In preparation for this meeting, the Food Standards Agency is planning to hold...

McCarrison Society Conference 2006
Our conference "Generating Healthy Brains" was a great Success! Report available soon! Couldn't make the Conference? Consider a Donation via PayPal or Buy the DVD of proceedings - available shortly after the event at an attractive...

International Conference on Infant and Young Child Feeding.
In November 2005 an international conference was held in Florence, Italy, to assess progress during the 15 years since government policy makers from 30 countries adopted the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding...

Symposium: Neuroscience, immune function, maternal nutrition: public health & HIV / AIDS in Africa
First Press comment Oct 26th 2006 From The Economist print edition (Premium contentent for subscribers to The Economist only) A Symposium of the Letten and Mother and Child Foundations In collaboration with the Institute of Brain Chemistry...

McCarrison Society - Scottish Group - PUBLIC MEETING
Saturday 14th October 2006 at 11am Steele Conference Suite, Perth Royal Infirmary “PESTICIDES IN FOOD - LINKS TO M.E.?” Dr Paula Baillie Hamilton M.D. PhD. “How pesticides make us sick” Dr Vance Spence ...

World Congress on Prenatal Development & Social Outcome
Joint World Congress in Moscow, 20-24 May 2007 : The 17th International Congress of the International Society of Pre- & Perinatal Psychology & Medicine (ISPPM) and 6th All-Russia Congress of the Russian Association for Pre- & Perinatal...

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All the Videos: Seafood
These links are reproduced from the website of Seafood Services Australia, a not for profit company supported by the Australian seafood industry and the Australian Government through funding from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation...

Videos: Chairman's comments on seafood
Videos: Chairman's comments on seafood See all the videos from this interview in Australia...

NUTRITION the answer? A new website initiative
BBC: ADHD Drugs 'not the answer' NUTRITION the answer? This article forms part of a new exercise at this website to group together all the on-line materials concerning the effect of nutrition on all brain disorders. The BBC news story and...

Short Course: The Role of Essential Fatty Acids in Paediatric Nutrition
The Role of Essential Fatty Acids in Paediatric Nutrition * RCP Accredited * September 9th and 10th 2008 Download Programme, pricing and booking form * 40% discount for McCarrison Society/ Nutrition Society members, charitable trust...

Government comes in to line with The McCarrison Society and the Welsh Food Alliance!
Launch of training programme to promote healthy food in schools and hospitals The Mayor of London and the London Development Agency (LDA) yesterday announced a new training programme to help tackle childhood obesity with a pioneering scheme...

Attention deficit disorders – Drugs or nutrition?
from McCarrison Society's Newsletter, Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition, no.40/1 (to read the whole newsletter you need to be logged in) Toshiko Matsudaira: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of...

NUTRITION the answer?
BBC: ADHD Drugs 'not the answer' NUTRITION the answer? ...

Scotland: pilot for free school meals in Primary One from June 2007
A new pilot scheme was launched in June 2007 in which Primary One pupils in some of Scotland's most deprived areas will all receive free meals. If seen to be successful, the scheme will then be rolled out so that all entry pupils can eat for nothing....

Michael Crawford's lecture on the flawed nutritional principles taught in the last 50 years
The Chair of the McCarrison Society, Professor Michael Crawford, gave a lecture this week at the University of Westminster and a streaming version (slides plus audio) is available to view here. The human brain is made largely of lipids (60%) and...

Scottish Group News
The Scottish Group of the McCarrison Society was founded in 1981 and holds meetings on nutritional issues particularly relevant to Scottish conditions, more readily accessible to the many Members of the McCarrison Society resident in Scotland and the...

Stewarding the life cycles of all marine life? DEFRA's vision for marine fisheries
The UK's DEFRA (Dept of Food and Rural Affairs) has asked for urgent responses to their vision for marine fisheries in England for the next 20 years, and the Consumers' Food Group are coordinating these responses. The McCarrison Society has strong views...

More tiny babies being born in UK
BBC TV News carries a report from the Fabian Society today (27 March 2007) BBC Video More babies are born at dangerously low birth weights in Britain now than in 1989, a report says. The study was carried out by the Fabian Society, a left-leaning...

MATERNAL SEAFOOD CONSUMPTION BENEFITS CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT
From: The Lancet press office, Friday 16 February 2007 (Joseph Hibbeln, the current holder of the McCarrison Society's Cleave Award, presented his paper at the Society's Generating Healthy Brains conference in January 2006) Higher maternal...

Nominations for the Cleave Award 2007
The McCarrison Society is seeking nominations for the 2007 Cleave Award Preference will be given to those who have published on the benefits of fruits, vegetables and fibrous foods and the dis-benefits of purified carbohydrates and high quantities of...

Unsophisticated foods of Nature
The McCarrison Society assembles scientific knowledge & evidence worldwide on sound nutrition, free from economic and political pressures, for the physical and mental health of future generations; runs conferences...

Letten/ MCF Symposium Press Comments
First Press comment Oct 26th 2006 From The Economist print edition"Omega-3 is very good for fetuses, especially those whose mothers have HIV" A Symposium of the Letten and Mother and Child Foundations in collaboration with the Institute of Brain...

New US studies re-affirm benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids against CVD despite doubts
Some much publicised studies, and in particular British Medical Journal have claimed that there was no evidence linking omega-3 intake and improvements in heart health. A new review, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and reported...

New Newsletter now available for Members only
The new Newletter, "Winter 2006 Edition 40/2" may be downloaded now (Microsoft Word, 855 KB) by Members of the McCarrison Society. Please Register and join, or log-in if you have already joined. If you believe you are entitled to receive members...

Food and Behaviour Research
Diet is important not only for physical health, but also for optimal mental development and functioning. Scientific evidence shows this, but clear and reliable information on this kind of research is not easily available to many people who are interested...

Omega 3 and Fish Stocks
A thoughtful article by George Monbiot in today's Guardian is worthy of comment, here or appended to that article. David Marsh has already given a long reply on those pages, countering many negative responses. Please remember to mention www.mccarrisonsociety...

New Public Service in Wales
Innovation and the New Public Service in Wales A series of workshops this summer in Cardiff. Each workshop will consider what effective process will be available to older vulnerable people to communicate their views and concerns about the new...

Bird Flu - what we CAN do!
Why do so many devastating influenzas such as Bejing flu and avian flu, originate from China? and What we can DO (flock keepers, farmers, Industry, Regional Govermnents) Could the answers lie with the mineral levels in the soil? by David Marsh Dip Agric...

David Thomas on Soil Nutrient levels, Food Programme, BBC R4
David Thomas continues the debate with Bridget McKevith from the British Nutrition Foundation and Peter Melchett from the Soil Association on the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme (Sunday 12 March 2006 repeated Monday 13 March 2006 at 4pm GMT. You can listen...

Response to Sunday Telegraph feature on Nutrition
David Smith writes Sun, 26 Feb 2006 Empower pupils with knowledge from pre-school to A level and they will then be able to decide for themselves and we hope make the right choices. This is the way for a ?better approach? (Marketing Public Health,...

British Society for Ecological Medicine Conference
UNFORTUNATELY the Conference has been CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances You can contact the BSEM here The Kindersley Centre, Sheepdrove Organic Farm, Warren Farm, Lambourn, Berkshire. RG17 7UU. UK Tel: 01488 71659 Fax: 01488 72677...

British Medical Association's Childhood Obesity initiative
The BMA believes that the significant increase in the levels of childhood obesity are a cause for great concern. The health behaviour of the nation’s children needs to be addressed immediately in order to ameliorate the long-term effects of poor nutrition...

Decline in trace elements in food "Not anecdotal"
Professor Richard Mithen of the National Food Research Institute, is quoted by Andrew Purvis (Food Magazine 15th May) as stating that my evidence on the decline in trace elements in food is “merely anecdotal” and that "loss of trace elements is irrelevant...

Observer response: Changing food composition over the last half century.
Andrew Purvis, (Food Magazine, 15th May) draws attention to the changing food composition over the last half century. Two other factors played an important role in this disaster. First, the Agriculture, Food Research Council (AFRC) was shut down. In...

Observer :Response from Prof Ted Tuddenham 16/05/2005
Andrew Purvis (Food Magazine, 15th May) refers to human nutritional physiology having been shaped by wild foods. He is of course dead right; what else could have shaped it? The Human and other animal Genome Projects have brought much hope of being able...

Welcome to the McCarrison Society and summary of its Aims
In this millennium, the greatest threat to our future security comes from the escalation of non-communicable diseases which now kill more people than the tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS and all infectious diseases combined. By 2020, mental ill health will...

Forestry in Ireland and Tara Motorway Madness
Some may know that Ireland's forests are practically depleted. There are none of her virgin forests left. Only 9% of Ireland is under forest, and over 94% of that is foreign exotic plantations.The second thing I want to tell you about is a proposed...

Tsunami: Rebuilding Tourism After Disaster
There was intense media coverage of the catastrophe, as the magnitude of the disaster became known. The total number of people dead may never be known for sure and estimates vary between 150,000 and 250,000. In addition to the loss of life, there has...

Chairman\'s Comments
This is a regular comments page by the Chair of the McCarrison Society, Dr Michael Crawford PhD CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath. ...

Janet Street-Porter and the New Poverty - Independent on Sunday May 4th 08
This is the full text of a letter, a shortened version of which was published in the INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, 4th May 2008. Sir, Janet Street-Porter (in her article on the rise in debt 27th April) is right, the poorest suffer most...

World Food Shortages and brains.
THE UN, CNN AND WORLD FOOD SHORTAGES: A popular view on food shortages is that the problem is one of distribution of food. Another view favoured by the World Bank and the like is that the solution to poverty and malnutrition is improving earning capacity...

Organic Salmon Really???Soil Association - is Organic more Nutritious?
Organic salmon - Really??? Is “Organic” more or less nutritious than conventional production? Research Article on Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services by Boris Worm with 12 authors from marine institutes,...

Chairman's Comment Aug 2006 Obesity Crises highlighted by the Independent Newspaper.
The Obesity Crises highlighted by the Independent Newspaper.The Independent on Sunday, 20th August headlined the catastrophe of increasing obesity.We have heard this before of course but the Independent is one of the first news media organs to recognise...

Chairman's Comment April 2006
Drug Industry on the march of taking over the Food Industry In 1972, the back cover of "What we Eat Today" by Michael and Sheilagh Crawford had this quote from the book: "The advance of modern knowledge in the drug industry is so rapid...

Chairman's Comment Mar 2006
This is a regular comments page by the Chair of the McCarrison Society, Dr Michael Crawford PhD CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath. Comment on Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats review, Lee Hooper et al BMJ, 24/03/2006 Meta-analysis of dietary interventions cannot...

Feb 2006: Sunday Telegraph and John Humpries expose ignorance on Nutrition and Health.
26th February 2006 David Smith of the Welsh Food Alliance writes to "Marketing Public Health" that the rot will only stop when teaching nutrition health and home economics is restored to the National Curriculum. Today's Sunday...

Chairman's Comment Jan 2006
JANUARY 2006 Comments are being made in some quarters that the evidence on the omega 3 fatty acids and the brain is trivial and too recent to be relevant to Government action. The evidence available in the 1960s and early 70s was sufficient to spark...

May 2005: IT USED TO BE LEAN CUISINE
Observer Sunday 15th May - Article by Andrew Purvis, FOOD ISSUE on the high fat content of broiler chickens. "IT USED TO BE LEAN CUISINE" I wish to congratulate Andrew Purvis (Food Magazine, Sunday, 15th May) for a thoughtful analysis of the...

Environment
Environmental changes, whether naturally caused like the Tsunami,or manmade, are likely to affect food & nutrition and social conditions. ...

Sustain AGM
A number of organisations present at the recent Sustain AGM, but particularly the McCarrison Society, confirmed the importance of good nutrition for both men and women in the pre-conceptual period, and for women during pregnancy, particularly early pregnancy...

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