Food Matters Recipes

[Latrina Mosely]

TheGlobal Food Matters Database is a unique centralized resource for assembling dietary reference data needed to conduct timely and actionable research on diets and food systems in low- and middle-income countries.

This appreciating resource is a home for crowdsourced, detailed datasets that include national, sub-national, and regional food lists, recipes and ingredients, nutrient information, and conversion factors; the dietary reference data are seamlessly integrated with tools such as the INDDEX24 Mobile App that permit streamlined collection and analysis of dietary survey data.

The time and costs associated with the compilation of dietary reference data constitute the greatest barrier to frequent implementation of dietary surveys. The Global Food Matters Database enables open access and sharing of national and regional dietary reference data among users, thereby reducing time and cost of preparing for dietary surveys. Sharing of dietary reference data in a harmonized format via a centrally accessible portal will improve access to these important survey inputs, streamline preparations, and reduce the time from data collection to decision-making.

Investment in dietary reference data supports program and policy decision-making beyond conducting quantitave dietary recall surveys. Governments and individual researchers can access this information for a wide range of purposes including locating food composition tables for nutrient analysis; updating and maintaining food and recipe lists, quantification aids, and food descriptors; and conducting cross-country analyses. Researchers working with household consumption and expenditure surveys or food balance data can also benefit from using dietary reference data from the Global Food Matters Database for food and nutrient analyses.

A collection of 2023's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman. The Best American Food Writing 2023 includes Jaya Saxena, Ligaya Mishan, Marion Nestle, Tom Philpott, Wesley Brown, Alicia Kennedy, Caroline Hatchett, Amy Loeffler, and more.

In VB6, bestselling author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman created an easy-to-follow diet plan for vegan meals for breakfast and lunch, and healthy, vegetable-forward meals for everyday. Now in this tie-in cookbook, Bittman expands on the VB6 diet with a collection of 350 new recipes to keep the diet going and to keep eating better.

Each lesson consists of one video, tips for parents, and research. Access to a variety of healthy recipes, diabetes information, and more is also available. All videos and materials can be reviewed by participants at their own pace.

When children experience growth spurts, they need additional protein for muscle growth, calcium, and vitamin D to accommodate bone growth, and iron for overall tissue growth. Children will therefore need more energy or calories during these spurts.

Research on healthy eating for children and teens identifies how much food from each food group is required for their growth, development, and activity. With these in mind, we created healthy recipes for you and your family to cook at home with low cost and short cook and prep times.

A recent article in the Evening Standard by Rachel Johnson was read with fury by the food allergy community. Michelle Berriedale-Johnson points out in how many ways Johnson got it wrong. She also brings news on Precautionary Allergen Labelling, the Ready2React Campaign and advice on dealing with allergies at work. Read on...

The Specific Carbohydrate Diet was created in 1924 by a US pediatrician Sydney Valentine Haas (1870-1964). He used the diet (affectionately known as the banana diet) to help children with failure to thrive, protein malnutrition associated with celiac disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. It was subsequently developed, with guidelines and recipes by Elaine Gottschall in her 1987 book Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet. In an interesting article in this month's Townsend Letter, Christine Bowen decribes how it resolved her lifelong intestinal issues, the research that has subsequently been done to validate Dr Haas' theories and the success she has had with her own patients on the diet.

Could the unprecedented 8-fold rise in horse deaths at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, in May and June this year be connected to the wireless devices fitted on April 29th to all horses racing there? Arthur Firstenberg and the Cellphone Task Force suggests that they could. Read on.

An article in the excellent Latitudes magazine about 18 year old Eli who was diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome after developing eye, noise, throat and head jerking symptoms when he was 7. By following the Feingold diet and eliminating chemicals from the family home Eli's tics were brought under control - except when he went back to school each January after the school carpets had been cleaned with a harsh chemical cleaner. Now 18 Eli, who has just accepted a scholarship to play college baseball at Wallace State CC, remains on the Feingold diet and aware of environmental triggers - and tic free.

Read Eli's full story here on Latitudes.

Pholcodine is a drug that is to be found in a wide range of cough medicines. Unfortunately pholcodine has a similar molecular structure to the muscle relaxing drugs which are routinely given to patients about to undergo operations. If that patient has recently (within the last year) had an allergic reaction to pholcodine they could easily react to a muscle relaxant administered prior to an operation. Read more....

In a recent BSACI on line symposium Professor Stephen Holgate called for urgent action to tackle the environmental causes of the global explosion in allergy cases: the loss of biodiversity, pollution, diet and urbanisation. A timely call but the evidence has been there for many years. Read on...

Research by Dr Hazel Gowland and Dr Michael Walker covering allergy related cases in the UK courts between Jan 2014 and Feb 2020 show that successful prosecutions resulted in improved allergen control and tightening of allergen related legislation, especially in food service. 28th December 2022

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