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No. 135 May 1984


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Taking Issue - Ashok Mitra

TRICK OR TREAT
Debbie Taylor explains why the food industry makes it SO difficult to eat a healthy diet and looks at how it distorts our relationship to our food.

Food fair checkout
Facts on the food industry

A pinch of salt
Radio journalist John Forsyth sifts through the food industry propaganda.

The bran brokers
A look inside the health food industry by Chris Brazier.

Bitter harvests
Dick Franke describes what effects 400 years of colonialism and neocolonialism have had on the sort of food poor people eat

Staying alive
A New Internationalist guide to healthy eating.

Kids stuff
Australian children are easy prey to unscrupulous food industry advertising. Allan Asher reports.

The real thing
A survey of Coca-Colanisation in South East Asia from Alan Lindquist.

Sweet and sour
Kathleen McDonnell explores the contradictory pressures on women: to prepare tasty meels but not to eat them.

Making a meal of it
A special feature for that tiny minority of New Internationalist readers who do not live on lentils and brown rice.

Hard to swallow
Nutritionist John Rivers looks at why working class people tend to have such unhealthy diets.

Looks good, tastes good
A plea for plain speaking about what’s in our food by Troth Wells.

Idea for ACTION and Worth reading on... The Food Industry

Reviews: New books and a classicCountry profile: GambiaFront cover photo: John Wallace

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