Food Politics—How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

Food, Nutrition, and Cancer

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Food, Nutrition and Health

Nutrition and Food Sciences: Fascinating and Challenging

Has the science of nutrition benefited from the food industry?

The influence of the food industry on the development of the scientific investigation of nutrition is of particular current interest, since it has been proposed that industry, in general, should shoulder more of the burden of financial support for basic research in the UK. It is apposite, therefore, to enquire whether the track record of the food industry gives confidence that it will accept a ...

Food companies and nutrition for better health.

There is now broad acceptance that the future success of global health depends to a large extent upon sound nutrition and physical activity policies. Work with colleagues while at the WHO convinced me that such policies need to be developed and implemented in partnership with the corporate food sector if they are to achieve maximum impact. Soon after accepting my position at PepsiCo, Ricardo Ua...