Food & Nutrition

UK Malnutrition Awareness Week (UKMAW) 2022 takes place from 10 – 16 October. Now in its fifth year, the week led by BAPEN and the Malnutrition Task Force, aims to…

Laura Wood continues our compelling series that offers useful tips on how providers can improve their workplace for their work colleagues. Healthy workplaces support staff to lead healthy lifestyles so…

To mark Organic September, which celebrates the many benefits of organic farming, let me begin this piece by quoting an amazing statistic from the Soil Association. It says that farming…

    What is the QCS Food Safety Manual? The Food Safety Manual was produced to offer a streamlined way for anyone with responsibility for food provision to deliver this…

Download our Food Toolkit for Men here.  Download Now ‘Take Action on Covid-19’ is this year Men’s Health Week theme, runs from 15-21 June.  With men being recorded as a…

Recent press reports have highlighted data that in the last 5 years 1,463 died in Care Homes from malnutrition, dehydration or bedsores. To highlight the importance of nutrition and hydration…

Swallowing Awareness Day 2018 is on March 14th and provides us with a good opportunity to reflect on how Dysphagia (the medical term for swallowing difficulties) can affect people’s lives.…

  Quite strangely, Asparagine, a building block of protein, has hit the news. This followed publication of a study in mice that showed this compound, first identified in asparagus but…