74-483: Winston Churchill Travelling Scholarship , 1987 MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cardiff, 1978–1980 MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, 1980–1982 Nutritionist, City and Hackney Health Authority, 1983–1984 Caroline Walker (12 June 1950 – 22 September 1988) was a British nutritionist, writer, author and campaigner for better food, who died from cancer aged 38. After her death, the Caroline Walker Trust
148-504: A Public Health Nutrition deputy editor until early 2010. In 2004, Claus Leitzmann and Cannon developed what became known as the "New Nutrition". They organised a workshop at the University of Giessen , Germany , where Cannon drafted, and the 23 members of the meeting agreed, The Giessen Declaration. This established ‘a set of agreed principles, definitions and dimensions for this new paradigm’. The Declaration defines nutrition as
222-488: A BSc degree in biology from Queen Elizabeth College (now part of King's College, London) and then did a postgraduate degree in human nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where her supervisor was John Waterlow . Her MSc thesis, completed in 1978, rated first class with a distinction, was on the relationship between poverty, food and health. In 1968–69, for a year after she left school, she
296-578: A UK number one bestselling book. It contradicted the Department of Health '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
370-615: A catastrophe. The book had low sales. Its arguments are now backed by far more generally accepted evidence. In 1993, Cannon joined the World Cancer Research Fund , becoming head of science and head and director of the secretariat on behalf of WCRF of the 670-page report Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective , published in 1997. The method devised by the secretariat of assessing evidence as convincing, probable, possible, or insufficient
444-488: 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". She became a pithy and pointed broadcaster, author and journalist, publicising the effects of good diet on well-being and good health, and poor diet on disagreeable, debilitating and deadly conditions and diseases. She
518-446: A gross overdose of the toxic antibacterial drug co-trimoxazole . He became interested in antibacterial drugs in general and in 1991, supported by a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, he interviewed various authorities. His resulting book Superbug was published in 1995. He concluded that the overuse and abuse of antibacterial drugs in human and animal medicine and rearing was evolving drug-resistant bacteria and already amounted to
592-573: A mistaken statement in The Food Scandal that its product Bovril 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. In his biography The Good Fight. The Life and Work of Caroline Walker , her husband Geoffrey Cannon summarised
666-525: A perspective that was reflected in his being awarded "Pseud of the Year" by the satirical magazine Private Eye for two consecutive years. Later in the 1970s, he wrote what he considers some of his "best pieces" for Melody Maker and Time Out , when they were edited by Richard Williams . In early 1969, Cannon became editor of Radio Times , which had a circulation of 3.8 million. Brian Gearing, his successor as editor, wrote: "Cannon arrived, backed by
740-609: A record-shop listening booth in Horsham, and a year later "when a van came down a street in Essen , Germany, playing the demo of ' Heartbreak Hotel '". At Oxford in 1960-1961, Cannon was editor and owner, with Stephan Feuchtwang , of Oxford Opinion (OO) . Regular contributors included Richard Gott , John Gittings , British historian Timothy Mason , JG Farrell , Ian Hamilton , and Kevin Crossley-Holland . OO introduced
814-518: A report to the Trustees. Once their report is accepted, they are formally installed as Fellows and receive their insignia, consisting of a specially minted Churchill Medal, at a national award ceremony. Applicants must be citizens of the respective country and the research must necessitate foreign travel. An implication taken from the award of a Fellowship is that the recipient is a leader or has potential leadership in their field of endeavour, and that
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#1732780163329888-583: A return to the originally ancient natural philosophy of dietetics as the good life well led, of which food and eating is one part. He then wrote The Fate of Nations, subtitled "Food and Nutrition Policy in the New World", in which he proposed that the pressing need now was to conserve resources and the biosphere. From 2003 to 2009, he wrote a monthly column, "Out of the Box", for the journal Public Health Nutrition on topics of current interest and continued as
962-548: A scholarship to Christ's Hospital public school in Horsham in the county of Sussex . He subsequently attended Oxford University as an undergraduate at Balliol College . He recalls that hearing Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring played loudly on a family friend's state-of-the-art hi-fi, at the age of fourteen, first enlightened him to the power of music. As further key events, he cites playing " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " in
1036-612: A sensational front page lead news story by Geoffrey Cannon in The Sunday Times 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. The Food Scandal 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
1110-502: A separate policy report published in 2009. His work for WCRF ceased in 2012. In 2010, the World Public Health Nutrition Association launched a monthly online journal, World Nutrition . Cannon designed, edited, and wrote a monthly column and editorial for the journal, ceasing as editor in 2016. In early 2009, Cannon as a deputy editor of Public Health Nutrition , invited Carlos Monteiro of
1184-451: A six-part series on ‘Fat to Fit’, and in 1986 another five-part series on food additives, which won The Periodical Proprietors Association Award for best campaign of the year. Both series became books. In 1984, with Caroline Walker , an English food campaigner and nutritionist who later became his second wife, Cannon wrote The Food Scandal , which became a UK best-seller. The Times ran three full-page features by Cannon derived from
1258-741: A social and environmental as well as a biological science. The workshop proceedings were published in a special issue of Public Health Nutrition in September 2005. Cannon was invited by the Public Health Foundation of India to give the opening plenary lecture at an international conference in Hyderabad in August 2008 on the future of public health. Here he drafted the Hyderabad Declaration on Public Health in
1332-848: 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 New Health magazine; co-founded the Food Additives Campaign Team, wrote a chapter for Additives: Your Complete Survival Guide , and shared the Periodical Publishers' Association prize for Campaign of the Year. She also lectured up and down the country, often to small groups, and wrote letters of encouragement to people who heard her and asked her for advice. In January 1985 Caroline Walker
1406-477: 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". Caroline Walker was born in Liss, Hampshire and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College . In 1972, she graduated with
1480-487: A young and talented staff … the changes he made were the most far-reaching ever to be introduced … At the end of the 1970s, Radio Times … was still Britain’s largest and most successful magazine." Elkan Allan, then editor of The Sunday Times Guide for Viewers , criticised Radio Times as containing “peripheral and tangential articles, frequently of a trivial nature”. In 1976, Radio Times and Cannon won Design and Art Direction Gold Awards for editorial design. Cannon left
1554-692: The Johnny Cash at San Quentin TV special was his idea, and he "share[s] credit" for the ideas behind the concert films The Doors Are Open and The Stones in the Park . He also directed the film of Frank Zappa 's performance at the 1970 Palermo Pop Festival, for RAI , Italy's national public broadcaster. In July 1971, he was one of four speakers on "Youth and Music" at the inaugural International Music Industry Conference hosted by Billboard magazine. In his address, he discussed rock music's inspirational role on
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#17327801633291628-713: The Agricapital group, which examined food production and health, for example producing a critique of the UK bread industry, alongside the Politics of Health Group . Both groups researched and debated the science and politics of food, nutrition, health, production and consumption. They were shaped by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS), set up in the late 1960s by distinguished scientists. BSSRS
1702-643: The BBC publication Radio Times from 1969 to 1979. During that time, he also wrote on music and popular culture for The Listener , the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Sun-Times , Creem , Rock et Folk , Melody Maker and Time Out . Since the early 1980s, Cannon has worked in public health, mostly food and nutrition policy. He co-authored with Hetty Einzig, the bestseller Dieting Makes You Fat (1983), and with Caroline Walker ,
1776-641: The Commonwealth and of the United States. Several countries planned a nationwide appeal after Churchill's to set up a National Churchill Trust. The plans were kept secret at Lady Churchill ’s request until after his death. The Trusts were founded to "perpetuate and honour the memory of Sir Winston Churchill" by administering the award of travelling fellowships known as Churchill Fellowships. An attempt in 1964 by then Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and former Canadian High Commissioner to
1850-502: The United Kingdom , Australia , and New Zealand . They exist for the purpose of administering Churchill Fellowships , also known as Churchill Travelling Fellowships , to provide an opportunity for applicants to travel overseas to conduct research in their chosen fields. The Trusts were established in 1965, after the death of Churchill, by a combination of public subscription and government contributions. The operating name of
1924-459: The University of São Paulo to write a commentary whose title was ‘Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing’. In the USA , the thesis was immediately supported by Michael Pollan and by Marion Nestle . By 2012, the team led by Monteiro and now including Cannon, in consultation with investigators in other countries, developed the thesis into what became known as
1998-570: The 'Getting in Shape' citizen running project, which he developed from Fun Runner ‘82, and in the 1982 New Year issue of The Sunday Times ran a feature by Cannon with the title ‘Dieting makes you fat’. With co-author Hetty Einzig, Cannon then wrote the book Dieting Makes You Fat , which became a UK number one best seller. Cannon then discovered that an official report on the state of British nutrition and health had been delayed and allegedly suppressed, apparently because of its overall message, that
2072-855: The 21st Century. Brazil held the presidency of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) in 2009, and Cannon was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the 12th meeting in Istanbul. He drafted the WFPHA Istanbul Declaration: Health, the First Human Right. Cannon continued working for the World Cancer Research Fund after moving to Brazil, mainly as chief editor of its second report, published in 2007, and of
2146-609: The Appeal Committee. Commonwealth and State Governments as well as Australian companies and individuals donated generously. The Returned Services League performed a nationwide doorknock on Sunday 28 of February, which raised £911,000. A total of £2,206,000 was raised, and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust founded to administer the funds. The recipients organise their own travel and undertake their own research. Upon their return, they submit
2220-462: 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. The Food Scandal also exposed adulterations , such as
2294-535: 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. NACNE's existence became public knowledge initially in
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2368-485: The Caroline Walker Trust, of which he was co-founder and secretary. In 1985, he was a founder-member of the National Food Alliance (NFA), an umbrella group representing around 100 UK national bodies concerned with food, farming, and health, and its chair throughout the 1980s. The NFA subsequently turned into Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming. As such, he was the civil society member of
2442-570: The Dunn Centre included a field study designed to see whether high blood pressure was linked with high salt consumption , for which she experimented on herself, adding sodium chloride and lithium 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. From 1983 to 1985 she worked as
2516-593: The Fellowship will strengthen their usefulness to society. They are encouraged to promote the Fellowships, encouraging others to apply, and thus perpetuating the memory of Churchill. The UK Trust, situated in London , award 150 travelling fellowships to fund successful applicants' travel for four to eight weeks anywhere in the world, researching their chosen topic among global leaders in their field. Upon return,
2590-467: The NOVA classification. Uruguay , Peru and Ecuador have also published national official dietary guidelines using the NOVA food classification, and they feature in a 2019 French official government report. Monteiro, Cannon and many other authors have published extensively on the NOVA system and its implications for nutrition, public health, society, economics and the environment. In 2020, Cannon
2664-520: The NOVA classification. This divides all foods into four groups, according to the nature, extent and purpose of processing; unprocessed and minimally processed; processed culinary ingredients; processed foods; and ultra-processed foods. The team was in 2012 invited by the Brazilian federal Ministry of Health to draft the text of the second official national dietary guidelines. Published in 2014 in Spanish and English as well as Portuguese, these are based on
2738-571: The Patron of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (UK), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II , granted the use of the post-nominal letters "CF" (for "Churchill Fellow") to recipients of the award. The stated aim of the honorific is 'to mark the contribution of Churchill Fellows to national life'. In 2021 the Trusts adopted the operating name of The Churchill Fellowship. The Australian WCMT has chapters with regional committees in each state and territory, with
2812-790: 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. From 1978 to 1980, she worked at the Medical Research Council (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
2886-558: The Trust in 1965. Before Churchill's death, planning for the fund-raising appeal for the establishment of a Churchill Trust in Australia continued under the code name Operation “G” (for Gratitude), under the leadership of (later Sir) William John Kilpatrick . Immediately on the announcement of Churchill's death on 24 January 1965, a nationwide appeal for funds was launched by Prime Minister Robert Menzies , with Kilpatrick as Chairman of
2960-623: The UK Trust is The Churchill Fellowship . In 1962 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh asked Churchill what type of memorial he would like the world to remember him by. He liked the idea of an unusual type of memorial, to be set up after his death, and suggested something like the Rhodes Scholarships , but available to everybody, on a wider basis. The concept was developed jointly by the English-Speaking Unions of
3034-631: The UK government delegation to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization / World Health Organization 1992 International Conference on Nutrition, participating in preliminary meetings in Copenhagen and Geneva and the final meeting in December in Rome . While writing Caroline Walker's biography, Cannon discovered that in 1976 his late wife and co-author had been prescribed what would now be seen as
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3108-661: The United Kingdom George A. Drew to launch a fourth Trust in Canada did not come to fruition, in part due to the illness and death of the latter. In 2019 The Queen granted permission for Churchill Fellows to use the post-nominal honorific CF; in 2021 the Trusts adopted the operating name of the Churchill Fellowship. The UK Trust was founded on 1 February 1965, the day after Churchill's funeral. Elizabeth II extended her Royal Patronage to
3182-435: The addition of water to sausages and bacon; the use of cosmetic food additives – colours and flavours; and the prevalence of mechanically recovered meat in the British food supply. Walker said in a Granada TV special on The Great Food Scandal : " Under the new 1984 regulations meat products can now include entrails, eyeballs, snout, hide, hair, lips". In June 1984 Walker and Cannon and the publisher were sued by Beechams for
3256-625: The bestseller The Food Scandal: What's Wrong with the British Diet and How to Put It Right (1984). Cannon's other books include The Politics of Food . He is a former director of science for the World Cancer Research Fund and now lives in Brazil where he is a member of the Centre for Epidemiological Studies in Nutrition and Health (NUPENS), University of São Paulo , Brazil. Cannon won
3330-420: The book — "Food, treacherous food", "The cover-up that kills", and "So you think you eat healthily". Two chapters of The Food Scandal dealt with salt and sugar, both identified in the NACNE report as being consumed excessively. Brands containing these were named, including Bovril . In fact, it contained caramel, which in industrial form is not a variation of sugar. Beecham , then the owner of Bovril, sued and
3404-485: The community and their field back in New Zealand. Geoffrey Cannon Geoffrey Cannon (born 12 April 1940) is an English author, journalist and former magazine editor, and scholar. From 1968 to 1972, he was the music critic for The Guardian , a role that made him the first dedicated rock critic at a British daily newspaper. Having worked as the arts editor for New Society magazine, he became editor of
3478-473: The documentary film London Rock (1970), focusing on the UK's counterculture movement . He recalls that, together with Rolling Stone journalists David Dalton and Jonathan Cott , he joined Granada Television documentary-makers such as Jo Durden-Smith , John Sheppard and Michael Darlow in devising "prime-time networked shows designed as anthems of the revolution". Among these late-1960s projects, he says that
3552-576: The film commentary allied with Cahiers du Cinéma by Ian Cameron, Mark Shivas , VF Perkins , and others, who later founded Movie magazine. OO was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "incomparably the best produced of all Oxford magazines". Cannon's first published writings on popular culture appeared in 1962 in New Society , where he was a founder-member of the editorial staff. He worked in-house for
3626-474: The food supply and thus what was consumed in the UK in the 1980s. It received mixed reviews. The Economist was sceptical, and Bernard Levin wrote in The Times : "What we eat and how we eat it is the next target for those who will not rest until they have compelled us, under the threat of prosecution, to do what they wish… The undoubted leader of the new species of fanatic is Mr Geoffrey Cannon." The book
3700-455: The late 1960s. George Melly , who became The Observer ' s first popular culture commentator in 1965, described the pair as seeking to "establish a critical apparatus" with which to evaluate contemporary popular music. Helped by his association with The Guardian , Cannon was able to contribute more substantial articles to the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Sun-Times , and to underground magazines such as Creem . He wrote
3774-545: The lifestyle of contemporary youth and also its ability to provide "the catalyst for styles of death", with regard to the counterculture-related deaths of Sharon Tate in Los Angeles, Meredith Hunter at Altamont , and Weather Underground radical Diana Oughton . Cannon says he was frustrated by The Guardian ' s habit of cutting down his submissions and stopped writing for the paper in 1972. In addition, he cites his lack of interest in contemporary musical trends –
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#17327801633293848-663: The magazine in 1979. Cannon wrote a monthly Fun Runner column for Running magazine from 1979 to 1987. He organised a team, including himself, to run the 1980 New York marathon. He then created London 1982/50 , a group of 50 who trained for and ran the 1982 London marathon. As a result, four citizen running clubs were formed in different parts of London, including the Serpentine Running Club , which he co-founded. After his ten-year editorship of Radio Times , Cannon became an assistant editor of The Sunday Times . His focus on fitness resulted in regular coverage of
3922-436: The magazine, later becoming its design, art, production, and arts editor. From 1967, he began writing on popular culture for, and redesigned, The Listener , under the editorship of Karl Miller , and in 1968 began writing a weekly column on pop and rock music for The Guardian . Along with Tony Palmer of The Observer , a Sunday newspaper, he was one of the leading figures in the emergence of British rock criticism during
3996-573: The national office at Churchill House in Canberra . All directors and regional committee members serve in an honorary capacity. The aim of the fellowships is to "provide an opportunity for Australians to travel overseas to conduct research in their chosen field that is not readily available in Australia...with further opportunity in their pursuit of excellence for the enrichment of Australian society". There are no prescriptions as to theme or topic. Recipients of Churchill Fellowships are entitled to use
4070-500: The organisation helps the Fellows to share their learning with professions and communities across the country. They are not academic research grants, but intended for practical research into real-world issues, covering eight themes: Arts and culture; community and citizenship; economy and enterprise; education and skills; environment and resources; health and wellbeing; governance and public provision; and science and technology. In 2019
4144-530: The post-nominal letters CF upon completion of their fellowship. The New Zealand WCMT is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs. Lieutenant-General Sir Jerry Mateparae , former Governor-General of New Zealand , is patron of the Trust, which assists fellows to travel overseas for a period of from three weeks to three months to investigate topics in their trade, industry, profession or business, that will help them to increase their contribution to
4218-1153: The privilege of having known her and admire her immensely brave struggle against adversity". Her final Food Programme broadcast on her life, work and hopes, made from her bed a month before she died, transmitted at the end of August in time for her to hear it, won the Glenfiddich prize for radio programme of the year in 1989. The Caroline Walker Trust was established in 1989 and is still in existence. Its work has included producing reports on nutritional guidelines, and at its annual Evening of Celebration it features presentations by distinguished speakers and gives awards to those who have most successfully supported public health by means of good food (Caroline Walker Award winners have included Joanna Blythman , Sheila Dillon and Sophie Grigson ). The Trust has also mounted an annual keynote lecture on public health and nutrition (Caroline Walker Lecturers have included Michael Marmot , James Goldsmith , Suzi Leather , Colin Tudge , Geoffrey Cannon and Jonathon Porritt ). Most lectures were published by
4292-418: The public. It stressed Brazilian food culture, foods of plant origin, and freshly prepared meals. The draft was cited by the World Health Organization as "giving equal priority to the prevention and control of nutritional deficiency, food-related infectious diseases, and chronic diseases". Cannon wrote two linked papers, developed from lectures given in Australia and New Zealand in April 2002. He proposed
4366-418: The state of Minas Gerais , where the couple now live with her son Tauá and their son Gabriel. In 2007, he told The Daily Telegraph : "Europeans regard death as the final obscenity, but in Brazil everyone is familiar with it... I don't think she [Raquel] would have married me if I hadn't been 'trained' in Brazilian life by Caroline's death. To live fully you have to embrace all of life's experiences." Cannon
4440-447: The temperate global North. Cannon was a member of the official Brazilian government delegation to the 107th World Health Organization Executive Board meeting held in Geneva between 15 and 22 January 2001. From 2001, he drafted the first official national Brazilian dietary guidelines, the Guia Alimentar , the final version of which was published in 2006. This included recommendations for government, industry, health professionals, and
4514-546: The trust and can be downloaded free of charge. The trust won the Derek Cooper Award in the BBC Food and Farming Awards in 2006. In her presentation at the trust's 2019 Evening of 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”. Winston Churchill Travelling Scholarship Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts ( WCMT ) are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill , based in
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#17327801633294588-631: The typical British diet was a main cause of many disabling or deadly conditions and diseases. Successive drafts of this report were leaked to him. The result was a Sunday Times front page lead news story and a full-page inside feature article. These articles won the Van den Berghs reporting Award for 1983. Cannon left The Sunday Times in 1983. In early 1984, he became editor of New Health magazine, published by Haymarket Press . From October 1984 until New Health closed in October 1986, Cannon wrote monthly columns, winning The Publisher’s 1986 best specialist columnist award. In 1985, he originated
4662-481: The work she did in the brief years that remained to her. The book contains a full list of her work. He wrote: In less than a year, between July 1985 and April 1986, the enlarged paperback edition of The Food Scandal was published; she was advisor to the BBC TV Food and Health campaign, and also to Granada TV and Thames TV , for a total of over thirty nationally networked programmes; wrote or co-wrote six booklets most of which accompanied television series, requested by
4736-517: Was a columnist: “She was… a scientist who was able to convey complex information in layman’s terms and with great wit”. Philip James, then of the Rowett Research Centre , Aberdeen, wrote in The Guardian: “Where will we find a successor to this young, engaging, warm and immensely effective campaigner?”. The distinguished nutrition scientist Hugh Sinclair gave the address at Caroline's memorial service, and said "We cannot replace Caroline’s contribution to nutrition. But so many of us will always treasure
4810-465: Was a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme. Presenter Derek Cooper recalled in 1995 ‘She cried out against the debasement of our diet with such wit that even her victims must have thought she was rather wonderful’. In 1984, Walker co-authored with Geoffrey Cannon , who would later become her husband, The Food Scandal: What's Wrong with the British Diet and How to Put it Right . With special support from publisher Gail Rebuck it became
4884-441: Was a teacher at the Convent of Nazareth, Haifa, Israel, living with Arab families. In 1973–75 she worked as an editor at Elsevier Scientific Publishing in Amsterdam. In the period immediately before and during the 1973 October War she went back to Israel and became committed to the Palestinian cause. Back in Britain as from the mid-1970s her commitment became and remained focused on the politics of food , as she associated with
4958-566: Was adopted by the World Health Organization. Cannon moved to Brazil in 2000 and is now resident there. In Brasília , he worked with Denise Costa Coitinho as consultant to the Coordenação Geral de Alimentação e Nutrição (CGAN, the department of food and nutrition) at the federal Ministry of Health. He compiled a report on Alimentos Regionais Brasileiros (regional Brazilian foods), issued in 2002. This describes and analyses many indigenous plant foods suited to Brazilian climate and terrain that are. not listed in food composition tables compiled in
5032-687: Was among the most cited 1% of more than 600,000 investigators in 23 science disciplines throughout the world, based on Web of Science research engine findings. He was one of the 19 working in Brazil, four of whom came from Carlos Monteiro's department. After graduating from Balliol , Cannon lived in the Bayswater , Hampstead and Battersea areas of London from 1961 to 1968 with his first wife Antonia and their three children, Benedict, Matthew and Lucy. He then lived in Notting Dale from 1968 to 1999. He married Caroline Walker in 1987; she died in 1988. He moved to Brazil in 2000. In early 2003, he moved to his wife Raquel Bittar's home city of Juiz de Fora in
5106-467: Was based, as was Friends of the Earth (FoE), in Joseph Rowntree Foundation 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 (1984–90), on which she remained until her death. A number of people from Agricapital and
5180-486: Was diagnosed with colon cancer; by 1987, her condition worsened. Towards the end of her life, she talked about a trust to be set up in her name to continue her work. Lead obituaries were published in UK national newspapers. John Rivers of the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine wrote in The Independent: “Caroline Walker was a radical who, by her passionate arguments, made market forces achieve her end’’. Felicity Lawrence wrote in The Daily Telegraph , for which Caroline
5254-429: Was established with a mission to "improve public health by means of good food". At the 2019 annual Evening of Celebration for Walker and of the trust held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, speaker Felicity Lawrence of The Guardian , 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
5328-510: Was granted an injunction in the High Court against the authors and publishers. In 1985, an updated and expanded paperback version was published. Cannon subsequently authored The Good Fight , a biography of Walker, who died from colon cancer in 1988. Despite its portentous title, Cannon’s book The Politics of Food (1987) only explored how the food product manufacturing industry, undeterred by government and expert advisors, manipulated
5402-405: Was rude about specific branded products”. Walker said “as a general rule, the more heavily a food is advertised, the worse it is liable to be for your health”. Prefiguring Michael Pollan , 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
5476-856: Was serialised in The Independent , in 1987 winning the Argos Award for best newspaper feature, and in She magazine, winning the Publisher Award for best magazine feature. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Cannon worked with professional and public interest civil society organisations. These included the London Road Runners Club, where he and colleagues devised the STAR*RANK (standards, records and ranking) age-graded system used in accredited road running races, and
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