Nutrition & Food Science: Volume 92 Issue 6

Women's Attitudes to Slimming and Slimming Foods

R.J. Neale, C.H. Tilston, K. Gregson, S. Lancaster

With approximately 60 per cent of the adult female population inthe UK (14.2 million women) slimming either seriously or as a tokengesture, a survey of the attitudes of 200 women…

What Is Taste?

Louise M. McCorkindale

Taste is defined in a variety of ways, and arises fromphysiological processes which are influenced by social factors.Explanations of taste therefore require information from…

Investigating the Diet of “Organic Eaters”

Georgina Holt

The preliminary findings of a survey of regular consumers oforganic food are presented. The research was designed to investigatedietary change in contemporary society with…

Fat‐spreading Habits of Children

A.D. Stephen, A. Wise

In a study of fat‐spreading habits of children, it was found thatmost children were already spreading by the age of five years and thattheir habits did not appear to change during…

Call for Recipes

Mabel Blades, Caroline Smith

Dietary advice is extremely important to patients′ well‐being andcontrol of disorders such as diabetes. A mini‐survey of dieteticoutpatients was carried out at Bedford Hospital…

Changes During Frying: MAJOR AND MINOR NUTRIENT LEVELS IN VEGETABLE OILS HIGH IN POLYUNSATURATES

B. Nichols, G. Thaxton, S. Nolan

In recent years, the preparation of food by frying has, for avariety of reasons, been widely discouraged. The work described here wasaimed at establishing the validity of some of…

Food Check

Denise Worsfold

The Women′s Royal Voluntary Service is a voluntary organizationwhich plays an important role in providing food for the elderly in thecommunity. Food Check is an internal audit…

FOOD FACTS

Recently delegates from about 150 countries met in Geneva at the preparatory committee meeting of the International Conference on Nutrition, held jointly by the Food and…