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Isabel Cole‐Hamilton, BSc, SRD, describes ways in which community dietitians are contributing towards nutrition education by providing resources and in‐service training for teachers, as well as going into schools to give talks and organise activities based on food and sensible eating

The London Food Commission has been set up, with initial funding from the Greater London Council, to liaise with Food Policy Groups in London and broaden the debate on issues around food and health which local policies are less inclined to tackle.

So, what can we eat? How many times have we heard this plaintive cry during discussions on nutrition and health? After expounding the horrors of fat, sugar, salt and insufficient dietary fibre and finding that most of the foods we buy are loaded with one or more of these demons our future eating possibilities can look pretty grim.

Each of us is born with a stock of health, much of whose value depends on how well our mothers fed and conducted themselves during pregnancy. As we grow up we become progressively more responsible for our own nutritional status. Or do we? No man is an island and members of minority groups know how difficult it is to comply with dietary laws. Pressures by the rest of society to conform with its current dietary patterns are most effective. Moreover it is often difficult to find out just what is on the cafeteria plate or the proportions of the various foods in the package or tin can.

This is the title of a very important new publication produced for the Inner London Education Authority and available for others who want an up to date view of what should be taught about nutrition in secondary schools. It provides an excellent background of modern views of nutrition and is attractively presented with many very helpful charts, diagrams and illustrations.

Tesco introduced their own healthy eating campaign in January last year by launching a comprehensive scheme of nutrition labelling on their own label products and linking the food labelling with a number of free leaflets on all the important aspects of healthy eating of which the consumer may need to be informed. These leaflets are shown in the photograph below. Carey Dennis, chief home economist and associate director at Tesco sent us this report on their healthy eating campaign during 1985.

Joan Richardson, MBE, District Health Promotion Officer in the Worcester and District Health Authority, summarises some of the papers given at a recent conference in her area at which specialists in nutrition, child development and biochemistry discussed key issues about food and growth of the pre‐school child