285:'s official 1981 statement that "Nutrition in Britain is generally good". The background to the book was the official NACNE (National Advisory Committee on Nutrition Education) report on the British diet, of which Philip James was convenor and chief author. NACNE was a committee of physicians and nutrition scientists commissioned by the British government to produce a report on food and health in the UK. Walker was the committee's honorary Secretary. The report was delayed and widely believed to have been suppressed for two and a half years, after lobbying from the food manufacturing industry and its representative organisations. Walker was incensed: ‘The less well off, the less well informed, the disadvantaged, would continue in ignorance to depend on diets which could eventually destroy their health.
308:, Walker and Cannon argued that the "basic message about food and health" could be stated in one sentence: "For good health, eat whole, fresh food; and prefer food of vegetable origin." The book pointed out how far the British diet had departed from this message, noting for example that since the 1950s the British ate half as much porridge and twice as much packaged sweetened breakfast cereal. Walker and Cannon also noted that the British ate a "miserable 2 1/2 ounces of fresh fruit" per day and just 4 ounces of fresh vegetables. "Think what that might look like: the odd onion, a couple of carrots, a few sprouts.
163:, a friend and colleague of Walker, said "She was the lodestar for campaigning around food and social justice that has guided me, and influenced countless others, ever since… She had a unique combination of erudition and academic ability with human warmth, and a gift for popular communication. She was a great phrase-maker, and a witty story-teller… She could simplify to communicate because she had such deep understanding of the science behind her subject. That was rare. And precious".
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From 1983 to 1985 she worked as a community nutritionist for City and
Hackney Health Authority, working to Ken Grant, in charge of the heart and stroke prevention programme. She published papers on "Poverty by administration" (based on her MSc thesis), "The national diet" and "The new British diet".
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funded offices at 9 Poland Street, near Soho, London. She maintained links with BSSRS and FoE friends and colleagues for the rest of her life. Thus, she became a board member of the London Food
Commission (LFC), a think-tank on food, health, society and economy created by the Greater London Council
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took the findings of the NACNE report and popularised them for a general audience. It "challenged the unholy trinity of
British processed food: saturated fat, commercial sugar, added salt. It was rude about specific branded products”. Walker said “as a general rule, the more heavily a food is
368:, for a total of over thirty nationally networked programmes; wrote or co-wrote six booklets most of which accompanied television series, requested by a total of half a million viewers; was a Woman of the Year; advised and guided the Coronary Prevention Group, the London Food Commission and
238:(MRC) Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff, working to Peter Elwood, then in 1981–1982 moved to the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge, working to Philip James. Her work at the Dunn Centre included a field study designed to see whether high blood pressure was linked with
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paste contained sugar (the type of caramel included to give a meaty colour, is not a form of sugar) and
Beechams won an injunction in London's High Court. The book was withdrawn, reprinted and republished. An expanded and updated paperback edition was published in 1985.
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231:(1984–90), on which she remained until her death. A number of people from Agricapital and the Politics of Health Group were on the 15 person staff of the LFC or its 50-person board, such as Eric Brunner, Michael Joffé, Tim Lang, Tim Lobstein, and Aubrey Sheiham.
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Caroline's memorial service, and said "We cannot replace Caroline’s contribution to nutrition. But so many of us will always treasure the privilege of having known her and admire her immensely brave struggle against adversity".
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Celebration, Felicity Lawrence said: “Caroline would be thrilled to see this room full of young people working in the public interest, carrying on the good fight that she began”.
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to her diet. She then made a critical review of the state of the scientific literature on diet and major chronic diseases in Europe, starting with heart disease. She corresponded directly with researchers in 26 countries.
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in June 1983. When the report finally appeared, its message was that the British would be much healthier if their diet contained less fat and sugar.
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Under the new 1984 regulations meat products can now include entrails, eyeballs, snout, hide, hair, lips".
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Granada Television. (October 1985).The Great Food Scandal. Caroline Walker contribution. Transcript.
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in the British food supply. Walker said in a Granada TV special on
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it became a UK number one bestselling book. It contradicted the
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The Food Scandal. The No 1 Bestseller Updated with New Material
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Cannon, Geoffrey (3 July 1983). "Battle for the British diet".
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in Amsterdam. In the period immediately before and during the
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advertised, the worse it is liable to be for your health”.
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The Good Fight: The Life and Work of Caroline Walker
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