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Scroll down for access to previous contributions to World Nutrition, from its first issue in May 2010, to its 31st issue last month. This archive also links you to all regular columns from their beginnings, to last month. Currently these are by Claudio Schuftan, Geoffrey Cannon and Reggie Annan, and now also Philip James.

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19th century direct action. Rudolf Virchow took to the Berlin barricades in 1848 (left), and (right) John Snow inactivates the Broad Street pump in 1854

Last month's WN editorial was about the place of direct action in the service of public health. Two 19th century examples are illustrated by the pictures above. In 1848 Rudolf Virchow, a pathologist who became a founding father of modern epidemiology, took to the barricades in the streets of Berlin (left) as part of the 1848 European revolt of oppressed workers and peasants. His action in defiance of the Prussian armed forces, was in protest against the immiseration and disease suffered by communities in Upper Silesia, whose conditions he had been charged to investigate. The rising was put down, yet its tricolour shown in the picture is now Germany's national flag.

No, it is not OK to be obese

Philip James's column last month was another blockbuster. Studies issued by the US Centers for Disease Control Center for Health Statistics, of which the principal investigator is CDC veteran Katherine Flegal, persistently conclude that it is best to be overweight, and even somewhat obese. Her studies apparently show that 'Compared with people with BMIs between 18.5 and 25.0, which is the World Health Organization range for 'normal' or 'acceptable' body mass, 'overweight' people with BMIs from 25 up to 30 had death rates expressed as 'hazard ratios' of 0.94, which is to say a 6 per cent lower mortality. This was statistically significant. Actually even being 'grade 1 obese' with BMIs of 30 up to 35,had a 'hazard ratio' of 0.95, but this 5 per cent lower rate...was not quite statistically significant in showing a benefit of even being obese.

Amazing data from the US Centers for Disease Control: it seems to be best
to be overweight or perhaps even somewhat obese, as shown in this graphic

'To realise how astounding these findings are, see the graphic above. In numbers, at 32.5 BMI, midway between 30 and 35, a man of 1.80 metres or 5 foot 11, weighs 105 kilograms or 232 pounds (16 stone 8 pounds), and a woman of 1.70 metres or 5 foot 7, weighs 95 kilograms or 207 pounds (14 stone 11 pounds)'.

In a blistering analysis, Philip James shows that these apparently amazing results are an artefact of the most basic type. He says: 'Public health nutritionists with experience and knowledge of real world conditions, most of all outside the most privileged and economically wealthy countries, are liable to feel initially confused and dismayed by inevitably influential paradoxical judgements coming from a US federal government agency'.

He concludes: 'There is I suggest, a great deal to be said for relying on what still remains a pretty transparent and accountable UN system, where the realities and needs of less resourced countries whose people can't afford to be treated for disease for much of their lives are fully taken into account. There is a very worrying tendency for groups, funded particularly in the US either by the government or more recently by multi-billionaires, to assume they should now determine global health as well as global warming and indeed global economic policies. Carefully developed evidence and reliable policies and actions, produced in a global context, are being contradicted by interested parties outside the UN. These either use novel complex approaches which dazzle and bemuse onlookers but may not relate to reality, or else present a narrow view based on very questionable evidence, poor reasoning, and apparent ignorance of what goes on in the wider world'.

The editors


World Nutrition



2013. Volume 4, number 1-2, pages 1-87


February 2013


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. Public health nutrition


The case for direct action
pdf

Commentary. La Via Campesina


Paul Nicholson
The revolt of the peasants
pdf

January 2013


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. World Nutrition and world nutrition


Looking back and looking forward
pdf

Commentary. World Nutrition and world nutrition


Geoffrey Cannon; Roger Hughes, Roger Shrimpton,
Elisabetta Recine, Barrie Margetts; Jean-Claude Moubarac;
Geof Rayner, Tim Lang; Philip James; Carlos Monteiro;
Enrique Jacoby, Patricia Murillo; Vivica Kraak; Kelly Brownell,
Mark Gold; Harriet Kuhnlein; Juan Rivera,
Sonia Hernández Cordero, Fabio Gomes, Leonardo Garnier,
Cecilia Castillo, Marcela Reyes; Renata Bertazzi Levy, Rafael Claro

The year of 2012. What next?
pdf

Correspondence. The Food System

Claudio Schuftan, Geoffrey Cannon
What are we waiting for?
pdf



2012. Volume 3, numbers 1-12, pages 1-599


December 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. The new world disorder


What's happening
pdf

Commentary. The Food System. Ultra-processing

Carlos Monteiro, Geoffrey Cannon
Renata Bertazzi Levy, Rafael Claro, Jean-Claude Moubarac

The big issue for nutrition, disease, health, well-being
pdf

Commentary. Legislation, Trans fats

Vivica Kraak, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Rafael Monge-Rojas

The case for a global ban
pdf

Correspondence. Regulation of school food

Nilda Valdez Pérez, Luis Fernando Gómez
Half time: Costa Rica 1, Colombia 0
pdf

Correspondence. Poverty

Barry Popkin
Hunger fuels profits
pdf

Correspondence. Poverty

James Levinson
Hunger fuels profits
pdf

Correspondence. WHO, GAIN, SUN

Patti Rundall, David Nabarro
Who gains from SUN?
pdf

November 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. The profession of nutrition

Public-public partnerships
pdf

Commentaries. Legislation. Children. Obesity

Enrique Jacoby
Juan Rivera, Sonia Hernández Cordera
Fabio Gomes
Leonardo Garnier, Cecilia Castillo, Marcela Reyes

Standing up for children's rights in Latin America
pdf

Correspondence. Ultra-processed products. Formula

Ted Greiner
The US is promoting formula
pdf

October 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. The best sources of food


Doing what comes naturally
pdf

Commentary. Infant and young child feeding

Thomas Farley, George Kent

Breastfeeding must be protected
pdf

Special commentary: Indigenous People's nutrition and environment

Harriet Kuhnlein

Here is the good news
pdf

Correspondence. The Food System

Paula Johns, Clarissa Homsi
Big Food, Snack, and Tobacco
pdf

Correspondence. Regulation. Trans fats

Ted Greiner
US consumers are deceived
pdf

September 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. Food addiction


Food on the brain
pdf

Commentary. Food addiction

Kelly Brownell, Mark Gold

Also in the mind
pdf

Commentary: The Food System. Ultra-processing

Carlos Monteiro, Geoffrey Cannon

Product reformulation will not improve public health
pdf

Correspondence. Ultra-processing

Anna Paula Martins
In whose interests?
pdf

Correspondence. Infant and young child feeding

Ted Greiner
Alcohol in breastmilk
pdf

August 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial. Governance


Michael Bloomberg and the need for law
pdf

Commentary. Food supplies. Trans fats

Vivica Kraak

Government policies and actions to protect citizen health
pdf

Commentary: The best food on earth. Peru (2)


Enrique Jacoby, Patricia Murillo
The union of agriculture, gastronomy, nutrition
pdf

Correspondence . Government. Obesity

Boyd Swinburn
The Australian example
pdf

Correspondence. Industry. Processing

Urban Jonsson; Carlos Monteiro, Geoffrey Cannon
Don't knock the food industry; Knock knock, who's there?
pdf

July 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial


Nutrition and nourishment
pdf

Commentary


Enrique Jacoby
The best food on earth. Peru: As good as it gets
pdf

Commentary

Boyd Swinburn
Obesity. Why governments must act
pdf

Correspondence

Elisabeth Sterken
Ultra-processing: Troublesome claims and descriptions
pdf

Correspondence

Reggie Annan
Competencies: We need to work together in Africa
pdf

June 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial


What drives global obesity
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro, Geoffrey Cannon

Ultra-processing
What are ultra-processed products

pdf

Commentary

Hélène Delisle

Competencies
Empowering our profession in Africa

pdf

Rio2012: What next

The Rio2012 Declaration. Introduction
pdf

May 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Rio2012: What next.
Who do we think we are

pdf

Commentary

Philip James

Rio2012. What next
Coming to judgement

pdf

Short communications

Renato Maluf, Fabio Gomes, Sabrina Ionata, Inês Rugani
Asma Ali, Christina Black, Roger Hughes, Nahla Hwalla
Sarah Kehoe, Shiriki Kumanyika, Mark Lawrence, Carlos Monteiro
Jean-Claude Moubarac, Isabela Sattamini, Boyd Swinburn

Rio2012. What next
Looking into the future, what do we see?

pdf

Correspondence

Claudio Schuftan, Urban Jonsson
Competence: who for, and where from?
pdf

April 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial


Rio2012: We have lift-off
pdf

Commentary

Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

Our vision: Where do we go?
pdf

Short communications

Marion Nestle, Philip James, Reggie Annan, Barrie Margetts
Catherine Geissler, Harriet Kuhnlein, Claudio Schuftan,
Geoffrey Cannon, Agneta Yngve, Barry Popkin, Ricardo Uauy
Urban Jonsson, Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

Looking into the future, what do we see?
pdf

Correspondence

Roger Hughes, Roger Shrimpton, Elizabetta Recine, Barrie Margetts
Competence: for what, and so what?
pdf

Correspondence

Arun Gupta, Claudio Schuftan, Flavio Valente,
Patti Rundall, Radha Holla
Ready-to-use therapeutic food is not the answer to malnutrition
pdf

March 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial


Making dreams seem real
pdf

Commentary

Jean-Claude Moubarac

The ultra-processing series:
Sexing up ultra-processed products

pdf

Correspondence

Claudio Schuftan, Urban Jonsson
Competence: for what, and so what?
pdf

February 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial


What difference we can make
pdf

Commentary

Roger Hughes, Roger Shrimpton,
Elisabetta Recine, Barrie Margetts
Empowering our profession
pdf

January 2012


Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Listening to our members
pdf

Commentary

Geoffrey Cannon

World Nutrition and World Nutrition
pdf



2011. Volume 2, numbers 1-10, pages 1-545


November-December 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Can the UN stand up for rights, equity, justice?
pdf

Eulogy

Ruth Oniang'o, Colin Tudge, Olivia Yambi,
Stuart Jeffries, Joseph Kabiru – and Wangari Maathai
Eulogy for Wangari Maathai
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing:
Why bread, hot dogs –
and margarine – are ultra-processed

pdf

October 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Down from the UN NCD summit: The right road
pdf

Commentary

George Kent:
Breastfeeding: The need for law and regulation
pdf

Short communication

Jon Rohde, Arun Gupta, JP Dadhich
Protecting the Global Strategy for breastfeeding
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing:
The good, the bad, and the toxic

pdf

September 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The UN NCD summit: Oxygen debt
pdf

Commentary

Philip James:
Up to the Summit: Inglorious paths
pdf

Commentary

Barry Popkin, Boyd Swinburn, Camila Giugliani,
Carlos Monteiro, Claudio Schuftan, David Stuckler,
Geoffrey Cannon, Philip James, Ricardo Uauy,
Sabrina Ionata, Walter Willett:
Down from the Summit: So what now
pdf

Correspondence

Claudio Schuftan, Fabio Gomes, Geoffrey Cannon
Why be nice to the transnationals?
pdf

August 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Things may not be what they seem
pdf

Commentary

Oliver Gillie
Vitamin D: Let the sun shine on you
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing
There is no such thing as a healthy
ultra-processed product

pdf

June-July 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The shape of wars to come
pdf

Commentary

Claudio Schuftan
Food price crises:
'Free markets' cause inequity and hunger

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing
The cost and the value of meals

pdf

Commentary: update of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report

Shiriki Kumanyika, Christina Economos
Prevention of obesity: Finding the best evidence
pdf

May 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The lost principle: Eat meals
pdf

Eulogy for Michael Latham

Annelies Allain, Anthony Kironji, Barrie Margetts, Claudio Schuftan,
Dia Sanou, Geoffrey Cannon, Godwin Ndossi, Joseph Ashong
Katherine Huong, Nwanyinma Nnodum, Olivia Yambi
Reggie Annan, Ted Greiner, Urban Jonsson, Yuliya Tipograf
Eulogy for Michael Latham
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing
In praise of the family meal

pdf

April 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

It's the beginning of a new age
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing
The hydrogenation bomb

pdf

DOHaD position paper

The time to prevent disease is before conception
pdf

Correspondence: Ultra-processing

Julio Montero
pdf

March 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Small is ecological
pdf

Commentary

Thomas Samaras
Reasons to be small
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing
Labelling: The Fictions

pdf

Correspondence: RUTFs

Patti Rundall Arun Gupta, JP Dadhich, George Kent
RUTFs
pdf

Correspondence: Ultra-processing

Lluis Serra-Majem, Carlos Monteiro, Geoffrey Cannon
Ultra-processing
pdf

February 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The global game of Big Snack
pdf

Commentary

Michael Latham, Urban Jonsson, Elisabeth Sterken, George Kent
RUTF stuff: Can the children be saved by fortified peanut paste?
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing
'Carbs': The answer

pdf

Correspondence

Massimo Serventi
RUTFs are not the answer in Darfur
pdf

January 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Our first and new year
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing:
The riddle of the Great Food Pyramid

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing:
Why bread is ultra-processed

pdf

Position paper

Governance, structure of the UN SCN
pdf



2010. Volume 1, numbers 1-7, pages 1-345


December 2010

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Nourishing our future
pdf

Position paper

The nature and purpose of the UN SCN
pdf

Correspondence

Marion Nestle:
Ultra-processing
pdf

November 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Nutrition science: Time to start again
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
Ultra-processing. The big issue
pdf

October 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Conferences: What for?
pdf

Commentary

Keith West, Rolf Klemm, Alfred Sommer
Vitamin A saves lives. Sound evidence, sound policy
pdf

September 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Conferences: What for?
pdf

Commentary

Colothur Gopalan
My life in nutrition
pdf

July - August 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Malnutrition. The experts disagree
pdf

Commentary

Urban Jonsson
The rise and fall of paradigms
In world food and nutrition policy

pdf

Correspondence

Brian Thompson and Leslie Amoroso, Barbara Burlingame,
Urban Jonsson, Cecilia Florencio
The great vitamin A fiasco
pdf

Ala Alwan
Marketing food to children: Are the UN agencies helpless?
pdf

June 2010

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The UNSCN. Is it necessary to re-invent it?
pdf

Editorial

The preservation of the world
pdf

Commentary

Harriet Kuhnlein
Here is the good news
pdf

Correspondence

Colothur Gopalan, HPS Sachdev and Umesh Kapil, Soerkirnan and
others, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Keith West and Alfred Sommer,
Malden Nesheim, Vinodini Reddy, Ted Greiner, George Kent, Lois Englberger and Harriet Kuhnlein, Graham Lyons
The great vitamin A fiasco
pdf

Correspondence

Alexander Müller, Fabio Gomes
Marketing food to children: Are the UN agencies helpless?
pdf

May 2010

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Manifesto
pdf

Editorial

Hunger: For what, why, and what to do?
pdf

Commentary

Michael Latham
The great vitamin A fiasco
pdf


Columns: Philip James



2013. Volume 4

February 2013

Fat matters
Strange US data

January 2013

Measuring world health
The numbers don't add up





2012. Volume 3

December 2012

What Breadline Britain signifies:
snacks and living for the day

November 2012

Privatisation of public health
The Copenhagen 'consensus' exposed

October 2012

How to reduce salt in the Middle East
Wrestling with policy in Riyadh

September 2012

Why Mexico has got fat
The Coca-Cola republic

August 2012

The transnational's Olympics
Talking about obesity

July 2012

Nutrition and the UN system,
science, agriculture, industry

June 2012

What's special about Rio2012
Nestling with Nestlé in Lyon

May 2012

Welcome to Rio2012
How to achieve equitable societies?

April 2012

Are we prepared to get serious?
Lessons from Athens, Singapore, Jakarta

March 2012

Teaching yes, but about what?
Scientists who push their findings




Columns: Geoffrey Cannon



2013. Volume 4

February 2013

Ideas come first
Good meals defined

January 2013

All my 2012 heroes
The grand vision of nutrition





2012. Volume 3

December 2012

Jose Marti, my hero
We have to talk about Pepsi

November 2012

Rudolf Virchow, my hero
We have to talk about Derek

October 2012

Being alive in Brazil
Causation: second of three riffs

September 2012

Wonderful Brazilian cuisine
Causation: first of three riffs

August 2012

The global breastfeeding network
Don't look down at Queen Elizabeth

July 2012

My hero: MFK Fisher
The triumph of chemistry

June 2012

Rio2012: What next
My gonzo truckstop

May 2012

Christopher Hitchens is a hero
Claudia Roden, the Mediterranean

April 2012

Cokeistan in Acapulco
Tales of the Bovril Two

March 2012

Grazing in Orlando
Fructose: what's the big deal?

February 2012

Why men obsess about big breasts
Why dieting made Lord Byron fat

January 2012

Celebrating Lynn Margulis
Unwrapping sweet secrets





2011. Volume 2

December 2011

What life and death tell us
Good food goes bad

November 2011

Trees, the environment, and nutrition
Be small and get out of tight spots

October 2011

Snake oil can be good stuff
The story of the great food scandal

September 2011

Where the coffee comes from
Genius acts of marketing: a fable

August 2011

What Rupert Murdoch tells us
Making the food-health link

July 2011

What it feels like to be living history
The environmental dimension

June 2011

The disaster of 'development'
Wit and wisdom of JK Galbraith

May 2011

Sports superstars who are short
USAID secrets revealed

April 2011

Hot stuff on trans fats
Learning from Henry James

March 2011

Fundamental and elemental health
Learning from Mark Twain

February 2011

Amazon vision – one of three
The legacy of Glyn Davys

January 2011

Leo Tolstoy on multicausality
Are computers taking us over?





2010. Volume 1

December 2010

Santa the Coke™ salesman
Why learned journals are boring

November 2010

On the trail of the Passivists
How to play Bullshit Bingo

October 2010

Hot gossips from Porto
Are booze and drugs nourishing?

September 2010

Burgers, fries and statin, please
Let's make nutrition sexy

July-August 2010

Are short people 'stunted'?
TNCs. children, the World Cup

June 2010

In praise of electronic publishing
Why Darwin was not a Darwinist

May 2010

Why we need to understand history
Kids are entranced by glamour food

April 2010

Pepsi-Co says it's saving the children
Three score years and ten – is that it?

March 2010

The cult of individualism
Referencing, why?




Columns: Claudio Schuftan



2013. Volume 4

February 2013

My hero Derrick Jelliffe
Food aid... Up to a point...

January 2013

My Vietnam: fish sauce and durian
Nutrition won the Vietnam war





2012. Volume 3

December 2012

My brush with death.
In praise of Jean Ziegler

November 2012

People-driven justice and equity
I have some questions for us

October 2012

My inspirations include
Nadine Gordimer, Isabel Allende

September 2012

The human right to food
My hero, Olivier de Schutter

August 2012

The People's Health Assembly
Toi toi, and Amandla!

July 2012

More on Rio2012
For whom does SUN rise?

June 2012

Rio2012: What next
We need a new 300

May 2012

I am the honorary consul
What I bring to Rio 2012

April 2012

My time in Congo-Kinshasa:
How communities can lift themselves

March 2012

My hero, Cicely Williams
Poverty is the cause of malnutrition

February 2012

What to do in an unfair world
Charity versus rights

January 2012

My move to California
Whose place in the SUN?





2011. Volume 2

December 2011

What is 'sustainable development'?
What we learn from Occupy

November 2011

Report on Social Determinants
The long road to democracy

October 2011

Empowering communities
Steps towards real democracy

September 2011

The people are moving in LA
New philanthropy: What goes down

August 2011

The SUN rises, alas
Claudio's new clarion call

July 2011

The SUN rises, alas
Claudio's new clarion call

June 2011

Letter to a young nutritionist:
Fight to stay with your vision

May 2011

Remember protein and energy
Forget silver bullets

April 2011

Report from the PHM in Dakar
Brace up, comrades!

March 2011

The People's Health Movement
WHO – in whose interests?

February 2011

Halfdan Mahler's vision
The key: primary health care

January 2011

What Eduardo Galeano tells us
Nutritionists of the world, unite!





2010. Volume 1

December 2010

My letter from Ouagadougou
The fight for global equity

October 2010

21 reasons why MDGs can't work
Structural reasons for world poverty

September 2010

The human right to nutrition
Problems with the medical model

July-August 2010

Neoliberalism? You're on your own
Up the Peoples Health Movement!




Columns: Reggie Annan



2013. Volume 4

January - February 2013

What is his future?
Nutritionists as advocates





2012. Volume 3

November - December 2012

Address by Anna Lartey of IUNS
Scaling up Africa's nutrition landscape

August - October 2012

Nutritionists as advocates
African Coca-colonisation

July 2012

African young leaders
The difference that we make

June 2012

Rio2012: What next
Why obesity and NCDs increase

May 2012

More vision for Rio2012
Africa's triple burden

April 2012

International Women's Day
In Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, Cameroon

March 2012

Death at birth (2)
What UNICEF is doing

January, February 2012

Death at birth
Round-up of 2011





2011. Volume 2

November, December 2011

More on FANUS
The fruits of Africa

September, October 2011

Inspiration from FANUS
Africa needs its own solutions

July 2011

Nutrition and AIDS in Africa
Protecting mothers and children

June 2011

No column in June

May 2011

Young African leaders
Testimonies for a new era

April 2011

Taboos like where I come from
Inspiration from Uganda

March 2011

West African diversity
Me and Dr Nkrumah

February 2011

Report from Namibia
Testimony from Uganda

January 2011

I continue to speak for Africa
Building competence and capacity





2010. Volume 1

December 2010

African nutritionists are uniting
Thanks, Hillary Rodham Clinton

November 2010

We must not fail Africa now
World class learning in Kenya

October 2010

A new African nutrition society
MDGs: looking on the bright side

September 2010

Honouring Nelson Mandela
MDGs: Just a dream in Africa?

July-August 2010

African malnutrition: UNICEF's
Nutrition emergencies: RUTF stuff

June 2010

The deep reasons for malnutrition
What can be done in emergencies

May 2010

Building capacity in Africa
Plumpy'nut politicking

April 2010

Inspiring young leaders in the field
The politics of severe malnutrition




Columns: Fabio Gomes


(Column ceased in June 2011)


2011. Volume 2

June 2011

China gets burgered
Joke of the month: Meat water

May 2011

Junk food: colour it delicious
Gross Shrek tells UK kids to jog

April 2011

Retiring Ronald McDonald
Shampoo you can drink

March 2011

Fruit and froot – spot the difference
It's back! Safe water on tap

February 2011

I promise you poems and song
Industry codes: don't believe a word

January 2011

Enjoy! My message for 2011
Here is the bad – and good - news


2010. Volume 1

December 2010

The fight to regulate junk ads
Bottled water: a joke on you

November 2010

Why do we tout soft drinks?
Brazil battles for health

October 2010

Why it's best to eat fruits in season
Candid camera: what agronomists eat

September 2010

My enjoyment of real fun food
Vitaminwater™: in the dock?

July-August 2010

The human right to good food
More on processed food and tobacco

June 2010

Tales from my father
Nestlé wants to own our water

May 2010

World Urban Forum report
Raining on Rio – the meaning for us

April 2010

Can soft drinks be like cigarettes?
Advertising to children: latest news

March 2010

Public health law. Pepsi and PepsiCo
Taxing soft drinks – a good idea!


March

World Nutrition


WN

Fortification

Folic acid and
spina bifida


Mark Lawrence
Access cover, contents here
Access editorial here


WN

The Food System



Big Food bitten


Geoffrey Cannon
Access commentary here


March
COLUMNS

Philip James

From Cairo

Moving on to 2015-2025
How to work with industry

Click here


Geoffrey Cannon

From São Paulo

The five dimensions of nutrition
It is best to be small

Click here


Claudio Schuftan

From Bangkok

A tale of three meetings
How nice to meet Dr Nabarro

Click here


Reggie Annan

From Kumasi

Cancer in Africa:
Prevention and control

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April issue
Out on 1 April


WN

New book

Cooking




Michael Pollan

Available on 1 April