 |
|
 |
|
A healthy, balanced diet
|
13 October 2011 |
|
| Rachel Hackett reviews some of the recent work by IGD's Industry Nutrition Strategy Group in the area of diet, health nutrition. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Bulking up with veg: why food energy density is important
|
15 September 2011 |
|
| As IGD publishes a new free best practice guide on the role of energy density in helping consumers make healthy choices, Rachel Hackett tells us why energy density is important and the work being done around it. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Helping consumers reach five-a-day
|
11 August 2011 |
|
| IGD has just published a free best practice guide on calculating and communicating fruit and vegetable portions in composite foods. Rachel Hackett looks at why five-a-day is important and what the guide aims to do. |
|
|
|
 |
|
How our diets shape the countryside
|
10 March 2011 |
|
| Whether farmers specialise in livestock, arable or horticulture, and how they manage the land, helps determine the landscape character and its bio-diversity. Peter Whitehead looks deeper into how our diets shape the land around us. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Communicating a healthy balanced diet
|
09 December 2010 |
|
| Rachel Hackett explains the background to IGD's new free best practice guide to communicating to consumers about a healthy balanced diet |
|
|
|
 |
|
Helping consumers understand sugars
|
11 November 2010 |
|
| IGD has just released a new guide to help food businesses provide information to consumers about sugars. Rachel Hackett tells us about the research behind it. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Giving students a taste of the food industry
|
09 July 2010 |
|
| IGD’s Technical Leadership Forum is sponsoring two summer schools giving school pupils a unique opportunity to learn about food science and technology. Rachel Hackett tells us more about the initiative. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Healthy eating habits uncovered
|
13 May 2010 |
|
| Healthy eating is an important issue and is communicated through many different initiatives and campaigns. With a look at latest IGD shopper research, Michael Freedman reveals how this is impacting healthy eating habits. |
|
|
|
 |
|
What happens when insurance policies set the price of food?
|
08 April 2010 |
|
| An ageing population, costly new medical technologies, the rise in obesity...healthcare costs are spiralling around the world. Last year, South Africa saw a leading supermarket link with a health insurer. We ask what could happen if similar schemes come to the UK. |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Portion size: Insights from dietitians
|
08 December 2009 |
|
| As part of the development of IGD's ‘Voluntary guidelines on communicating portion size to consumers’, we surveyed a group of dietitians who give practical portion size guidance to patients and clients. Rachel Hackett explains more about what we discovered. |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
What do consumers think of portion size?
|
30 July 2009 |
|
| In order to eat a healthy balanced diet, it is important that the portion sizes of the food and drink we consume are appropriate to our needs. Would markings on the side of food packaging help consumers get portions right? |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
A healthy concern in retailing
|
07 May 2009 |
|
| Clear information for shoppers on nutrition and diet has a key role to play in making healthy eating easier. We look at how retailers are responding to the challenge as obesity threatens the health of the nation. |
|
|
|
 |
|
Workplace wellness programmes: the benefits
|
10 March 2009 |
|
| Work environments have the potential to significantly influence the health and well-being of employees, strengthening the case for workplace wellness programmes. Nutrition Manager Rachel Hackett reveals IGD's latest resource to help firms formulate their wellness approaches. |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
