In
this issue
No. 135 May 1984

Letters Update
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 whats in our food by Troth Wells.

Idea for ACTION and Worth reading on... The Food Industry
Reviews: New books and a classic Country profile: Gambia Front cover photo: John Wallace
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