When discussing nutrition and balanced diets, the focus is very much on food. However, if we continue to ignore and undervalue the importance of physical activity in achieving this balance, then dietary recommendations will fail to meet the goal of … Read the full article
A significant, but arguably neglected, problem is malnutrition among the elderly. In the UK it is thought that approximately 10% of people over the age of 65 suffer from malnutrition. When the nutrition status of the elderly is tested it … Read the full article
“There is no boon in life more sweet, I say, than when a summer joy holds all the realm, and banqueters sit listening to a harper in a great hall, by rows of tables heaped with bread and roast meat, … Read the full article
Was Pavarotti healthy or unhealthy? If we are to use the World Health Organization’s definition of obesity as a BMI ≥30, argues Jonathan Steffen, then the illustrious opera singer was the latter. Yet, as the West becomes ever-increasingly obsessed with … Read the full article
The phenomenon whereby hunger and malnutrition fail to “self-correct” despite dramatic economic growth and the abundant presence of food is meticulously dissected by the 19th century French novelist Émile Zola in his 1873 novel Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly … Read the full article
The connection between anthropology and nutrition is one that has been greatly underestimated. Gretel Pelto emphasizes the crucial reciprocal relationship between the two disciplines in an interview which appeared in an edition of Sight & Life magazine last year. Pelto … Read the full article