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NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

Article Index
NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition
Chairman's comments
GHB Special Report On The McCarrison Society
GHB:Report by Conference Organiser Rev Simon House, MA
GHB: Preconception to late adolescence:
GHB: From past to present: evolution and epigenetics
GHB: CLEAVE LECTURE Nutrition, the brain and mental ill health
GHB: Our changing diet; deficits and disorders
GHB: Genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour
GHB: 'Brainfoods': Modulating brain structure and function
GHB: The effects of maternal anxiety or stress during pregnancy
GHB: Cornerstones in the Psychobiological Development of Mankind:
GHB: A psycho-soma integration perspective
GHB: 'New Parenting', psychotherapy, prenatal
GHB: Attention deficit disorders
GHB: Priorities in Research Funding
GHB:Into the future; avoiding the cost of folly
GHB: References
News
Mind What You Eat
McCarrison meeting with Sustain
Future Events

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News

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”. Nothing about achieving sustainable health and nutrition! The Government claims a higher GDP and better economy, yet the inequality of health is worse than in 1973 when the incidence of low birthweight was 6.6%. According to the 2005 UNICEF report, it is now 8%.

Low birthweight is the strongest, single predictor of cerebral palsy, cognitive and or behavioural disorders at school age, chronic ill health and subsequent risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke in adults. Low birthweight breeds poverty in a cycle of deprivation. Poverty breeds anti-social behaviour and crime. This is unacceptable in one of the richest countries in the world. Dr. Michael A. Crawford, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition.

Chef Jamie Oliver has slated the Government’s latest efforts to improve school meals (9 May 2006).

Speaking at the Bafta awards, the celebrity chef criticised the revolving door at the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).

According to a report in the Mirror, Oliver said: “The day after I met Charles Clarke [former Education Secretary] he got moved on. Then I got to know Ruth Kelly and she’s moved on. There’s always the same bloody excuse, which is ‘I’ve just started’.” Oliver added: “They promised me the extra £280m for school dinners. Now my job is to make sure the money is well spent and they give enough.”

His comments come after his recent call to treble the amount given to schools. At a school meals conference in March the campaigning chef also urged the Government to establish a 10-15 year plan to improve school food. A DfES spokesman said: “This year we have paid £60m to schools and local education authorities to help deliver healthier meals. We will not take our foot off the accelerator.” Jamie’s School Dinners picked up the Bafta for best factual programme at the awards.
by Tom Bill.

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