Food & Nutrition

Next week I am speaking at a Healthy Ageing event in Cardiff on nutrition and age–related disease. So it’s been a good opportunity to reflect on the importance of diet…

Turmeric seems to be everywhere these days; in high street coffee shops (turmeric latte anybody?), as a ‘superfood’ in popular diets, in the recipes of celebrity bloggers and in media…

There have been worrying reports that some staff in care homes may be giving food with meat to vegetarians because with dementia ‘they may not know the difference’. Yet this…

A popular newspaper recently reported statistics under the headline Kill by mouth that hunger and/or dehydration were a factor in 828 patient deaths in hospitals and care homes in 2014/2015.…

Data from a survey of 1000 UK adults by OnePoll in October last year showed a high level of confusion about healthy eating advice in the general population (75%), which…

The festive season always makes me think of nuts – the ballet The Nutcracker, the bowl of mixed unshelled nuts, the smell of roasting chestnuts… As nutrition scientists, we also…

Care homes should function as communities in which everyone’s contribution is recognised and valued, all residents, their families and staff members, should have the chance to be involved in the…

You may well have heard of probiotics – these are often referred to as “good” or “friendly” bacteria, found in fermented food products like yogurts or supplements, that may beneficially…