Search results

Summarises the findings of the British Nutrition Foundation Task Force report Adverse Reactions to Food.

A recent national survey raised concern about the diets and lifestyle habits of young women. Whilst nutrient intakes among the younger groups were generally adequate, some girls aged 15‐18 years had low intakes of many nutrients including vitamin A, folate, zinc, iron and calcium and low vitamin D status and ferritin levels. Of girls of this age, 16 per cent were dieting to lose weight and energy intake was low in relation to the estimated average requirement. Moreover, 69 per cent were not meeting the Health Education Authority recommendation for moderate activity levels. In response to these findings the British Nutrition Foundation held a one‐day conference to discuss current nutrition and lifestyle issues for younger women.

This article provides a brief overview of the role of the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF). The Foundation is a charity set up in 1967 with the aim of promoting nutritional wellbeing by disseminating accurate information about diet and health. Unfortunately, many of the messages that the general public receive about diet and health are inconsistent and as such do not enable them to make positive changes to their dietary behaviour. The premature reporting of scientific findings in the media, particularly when these conflict with previous research, contributes to the confused messages and encourages the common perception of disagreement among scientists. The findings of any single study are unlikely to provide convincing evidence and any new research needs to be interpreted in the light of previous reports and any discrepancies addressed. One of the key roles of the Foundation is to independently review the totality of the evidence, to make a judgement about various dietary issues and to interpret the science in a format suitable for different audiences. Current work includes the provision of training and resources for teachers and health professionals and an information and consultancy service for consumers, the media, government and the food industry. Much of its work also involves producing literature and running conferences to disseminate up‐to‐date information about various nutritional topics to health professionals both in the UK and across Europe.

Explore what popular food influencers among Flemish emerging adults portray in their Instagram recipe posts in terms of (1) references to food literacy, (2) nutritional value, (3) rational and emotional appeals and (4) the relation between the nutritional value and rational/emotional appeals.

A content and nutritional analysis of Instagram recipe posts from seven food influencers (N = 166).

Findings reveal that food influencers rarely embed references to food literacy in their recipe posts, especially regarding meal planning, food selection, meal consumption and evaluating food-related information. Only in 28.9% of the posts information was given on how to prepare a recipe. Second, 220 recipes were included in the 166 recipe posts, of which the majority (65%) were main course meals that met at least six of the 11 nutrient criteria for a healthy main meal (67.2%). Finally, food influencers promote their recipe posts as positive narratives, focusing on the tastiness (66%) and convenience (40.9%) of meals.

This is the first study to evaluate what food influencers post nutritionally in their Instagram recipes, as well as how they promote these recipes. Health promotors should note the influential role of food influencers and seek ways to collaborate to provide information on how food literacy cues can be embedded in influencers' communications and provide insights into how influencers' recipes can be optimised.

This chapter suggests that the unsettling reconfiguration of ‘home’ in works of post-colonial literary adaptation has an affective impact on non-Indigenous readers, contributing, potentially, to processes of decolonisation. Ken Gelder and Jane M. Jacobs, in their book Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation, argue that Australian texts which seek to disturb readers by pursuing modes of post-colonial ‘unsettlement’ can activate new discourses and, thereby, inspire social change (1998). Focussing upon undergraduate student responses to two works of Aboriginal Australian literary adaptation, Melissa Lukashenko's short story ‘Country: Being and Belonging on Aboriginal Land’ (2013) and Leah Purcell's stage play, The Drover's Wife (2016), this chapter draws upon ideas pertaining to ‘affect’ to reveal how, through the subversive reimagining of tropes and structures commonly associated with Western dwelling, works of Indigenous literary adaptation elicit emotional responses in non-Indigenous readers and, in so doing, open up new spaces for listening within existing frameworks of white possession.