It has become the fashion for most, if not all, of our lifestyle magazines to present what they call “healthy recipes”. This is a development that concerns me, not for the fact they are promoting healthy food, but because such recipes… Read More ›
Food Industry 
Food Week dishes up popular cooking tips
There’s only 2 more days to go in the inaugural New Zealand Nutrition Foundation Food Week! Having completed 16 radio interviews and five interactive celebrity cooking demos with audiences of hundreds, and with 600 “likes” on the Food Week Facebook page,… Read More ›
Our food is cheap – but don’t expect us to accept it
A recurring theme for the balance of this (election) year will, I suspect, be food prices, particularly with the soaring price of petrol. Despite our deep grumbles about prices, we bow to the oil barons, and attempt to revert to… Read More ›
Understanding food
We all need food to survive, but in an age where you can shop for it 24/7, heat and eat it and get it without leaving your car, have we lost our understanding of food? Having a basic understanding of… Read More ›
en•gage•ment (in-geidj-mint)
n. 1. The act of engaging or the state of being engaged. 2. Betrothal. 3. Something that serves to engage; a pledge. 4. A promise or agreement to be at a particular place at a particular time. 5. a. Employment,… Read More ›
I’m sceptical….what are you?
New Scientist ran an interesting series of articles about denial in May this year. It got me thinking that scepticism vs denialism is another way of describing a theme often addressed in this blog. I consider myself a sceptic –… Read More ›
Has the world already reached Peak Health? If so, who’s to blame?
The concept of peak oil has spread into the health sector, with public health professionals now talking about peak health in the same vein. This draws important parallels between our health as humans and the health of our planet –… Read More ›
Go First Lady!
Well done Michelle Obama. I commend her “Let’s Move” public awareness campaign to help stem the tide of childhood obesity in the US, launched on February 9th and outlined in the NZ Herald. A critical success factor is that this… Read More ›
What’s driving us to drink….and what are we drinking?
Recently I had the privilege of hearing one of my all time dietetic gurus, Linda Tapsell from Wollongong University, speak about how we relate to beverages. Alongside her, Claire Richards from Coca-Cola Oceania shared some fascinating insights into New Zealander’s… Read More ›
A seventh state of Australia – no way mate!
We both claim to have invented the pavlova, but when it comes to everyday food are we very different from our Australian cousins? Ask any New Zealander and they’ll say yes. But most Australians, it seems, think of us as… Read More ›