{"id":33294,"date":"2015-02-06T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=33294"},"modified":"2015-02-06T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:08:31","slug":"the-bmj-today-food-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/02\/06\/the-bmj-today-food-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Food everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/sally_carter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33295\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/02\/sally_carter.jpg\" alt=\"sally_carter\" width=\"160\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>I visited an old friend recently and we realised that we&#8217;d spent two hours of the evening watching a television channel devoted to cookery programmes, while eating. Food is everywhere as two news stories in<em> The BMJ<\/em> show us. MPs on the parliamentary health committee were told, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h665\">People are exposed to an &#8216;astonishing&#8217; amount of easily accessible and available food in the United Kingdom,<\/a>&#8221; during an evidence session on its inquiry into the health effects of physical activity and diet.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the experts giving evidence, Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford, said \u201cWe need to look at the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food because, in spite of recent price rises, the reality is that food today is very, very cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jebb spoke again at a Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum held at the Royal Aeronautical Society. She chairs the food network of a \u201cresponsibility deal,\u201d under which food manufacturers and retailers agree to sell healthier products if the government refrains from legislation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h676\">As the story explains<\/a>, \u201cthe deal has been criticised as being soft on the food industry and easily manipulated, but Susan Jebb . . . put up a stout defence of its record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cGraham MacGregor, a professor who has campaigned on salt and sugar in food, disagreed. He said that the \u2018responsibility deal\u2019 formulated by Andrew Lansley, the former health secretary, had been a disaster\u2014delaying progress on salt reduction begun by the Food Standards Agency and costing, by his reckoning, 6000 lives. The food industry was slowly poisoning people and the responsibility deal was rubbish, he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is the food industry really poisoning us? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.g7846\">Jamy Ard\u2019s review<\/a> \u201cassesses the evidence on the efficacy of treatment for obesity delivered in primary care in the United States,&#8221; and it doesn\u2019t paint a rosy picture.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all bad news though. There\u2019s good food out there too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h286\">A prospective cohort study by Rapha\u00eblle Varraso and colleagues<\/a>\u00a0investigates the association between the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010)\u2014a measure of diet quality\u2014and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among US women and men. The findings \u201csupport the importance of a healthy diet in multi-interventional programs to prevent COPD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps lifestyle choices can save us, but until then I\u2019ve got cookery programmes to watch, recipes and food magazines to browse, and cakes to bake. I don\u2019t even have to leave the house to get the ingredients. I can order them online.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sally Carter<\/strong> is the lead technical editor, Education, <\/em>The BMJ.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited an old friend recently and we realised that we&#8217;d spent two hours of the evening watching a television channel devoted to cookery programmes, while eating. 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