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There is much confusion today about diets, what we should eat, and what we should avoid. Food 4 Health explores this current confusion to try and find answers to some basic questions regarding the role of food in health and wellness.

A crucial aspect is why people make the food choices they do and how these choices are influenced by their own food environments within families and society. Influences may  include food trends; food availability; life situations; dietary guidelines; diet information in the press; nutrition knowledge; taste; food preferences and social pressures.

Food 4 Health will provide a critical evaluation of the scientific and lay-person literature surrounding food environments and food choices leading to the confused messages.  Much of the current confusion has arisen because, over the past fifty years, advice has centred on nutrients. In Food 4 Health the discussion will return to food.

Please feel free to contact if you wish to add to the discussion, or have any query.

I hope you enjoy this website and learn something from the messages.

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A false dichotomy – dietary guidelines and the other diet

by leonieelizabeth, posted in Diet and Disease, Dietary Guidelines, Food Environments

A dichotomy is a division into two entirely different and often contrasting domains, interests or activities (1). Examples of true dichotomies are black or white. Tall or short. A false dichotomy is an argument giving a false illusion of there being only two choices whereas in reality there can be at least one other or … Continue reading A false dichotomy – dietary guidelines and the other diet

A return to the heart of the matter

by leonieelizabeth, posted in Dietary Guidelines, My food history

Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event. In October 2013, the ABC TV in Australia aired a two-part documentary ‘Heart of the Matter‘ on their behind-the-science program Catalyst. The first segment investigated the diet-heart hypothesis and the history behind diet recommendations to eat less saturated fat. The second segment was on use of … Continue reading A return to the heart of the matter

Living through history. Our changing food environments. 1980s – 2010s.

by leonieelizabeth, posted in Food Environments

Within two generations there has been a complete restructure of our food environments from mainly fresh foods prepared in the home, eaten with family or friends at the table with plates and utensils; to a high proportion of fast food, convenience food, snack-food, confectionery; from or at restaurants, cafes, take-away outlets and food-halls; out of … Continue reading Living through history. Our changing food environments. 1980s – 2010s.

My food history # 12: Critical events and life catastrophes …

by leonieelizabeth, posted in Diet and Disease, Dietary Guidelines, Food Environments

  In the 1980s and 1990s, life was skipping along … Then came the dark events – life catastrophes As well as significant milestones and some major disruptions, over fifteen years from 1998 to 2013,  I lived through several crises and some distressing catastrophes. A crisis, whilst painful, tends to be a temporary situation or … Continue reading My food history # 12: Critical events and life catastrophes …

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