Previous months

Ultra-processing is back!

By popular demand, our ultra-processing series is back! Last month we
featured advertisements like these, used to promote ultra-processed products
Access pdf of November editorial here
Access pdf of November commentary (main thesis) here
Access pdf of January commentary #1 (profiling, soft drinks) here
Access pdf of January commentary #2 (Food Guide Pyramid) here
Access pdf of February commentary ('carbs') here
Access pdf of March commentary (nutrition labelling) here
Access pdf of April commentary (hydrogenation) here
Access pdf of May commentary (first of two on meals) here
Access pdf of June commentary (second of two on meals) here
Access pdf of August commentary (ultra-processed products) here
Access pdf of November commentary (bread and hot dogs) here
Access pdf of March commentary (advertising) here

We have impact! Our website statistics machine tells us that our World Nutrition ultra-processing series has, since it began in November 2010, been accessed over 100,000 times. Of all the editorials and commentaries we have run (the links are above) the one that you most want to access and to download is the original commentary by Carlos Monteiro. This alone has been accessed over 65,000 times. Now we have news. Last month's commentary on advertising was by Jean-Claude Moubarac, a member of Carlos Monteiro's team at the University of São Paulo. The next in the series, by Carlos Monteiro and Geoffrey Cannon, will be published in our May issue, which will be on-line on 27 April.

Finding your way around

This month is specially devoted to our Rio2012 congress, mounted with our Brazilian partners Abrasco. We are also featuring leading speakers every month. Also our Facebook and Twitter facilities are beginning to flourish, so now you can be interacting with one another and us any time you like. Remember please that full details of how to register are posted on the congress dedicated website.

This resource here is where you access previous main contributions to our website and to World Nutrition. This month is the twentieth normally monthly issue of the website, and the seventeenth issue of WN. Some features, like the Association’s Aims and objectives, how to apply to become an Association member, and Members’ profiles, are permanently posted on the website.

Other contributions, as those in WN, 'This month', news, articles, commentaries, and regular columns/blogs, are renewed every month. Generally these have a facility for responses and discussions, available only for that month. News items are usually not saved. After the month of issue all the contributions to WN, and the regular columns/blogs, and some other major contributions, are usually available permanently in this 'Previous months' section.

World Nutrition


March 2012

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Making dreams seem real
pdf

Commentary

Jean-Claude Moubarac
The ultra-processing series:
Sexing up ultra-processed products

pdf

Correspondence

Claudio Schuftan, Urban Jonsson Competence: for what, and so what?
pdf

February 2012

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

What difference we can make
pdf

Commentary

Roger Hughes, Roger Shrimpton,
Elisabetta Recine, Barrie Margetts
Empowering our profession

pdf

January 2012

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Listening to our members
pdf

Commentary

Geoffrey Cannon
World Nutrition and World Nutrition

pdf

November-December 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Can the UN stand up for rights, equity, justice?
pdf

Eulogy

Ruth Oniang'o, Colin Tudge, Olivia Yambi,
Stuart Jeffries, Joseph Kabiru – and Wangari Maathai
Eulogy – Action for Africa and the Earth

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing: Why bread, hot dogs –
and margarine – are ultra-processed

pdf

October 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Down from the UN NCD summit: The right road
pdf

Commentary

George Kent:
Breastfeeding: The need for law and regulation

pdf

Short communication

Jon Rohde, Arun Gupta, JP Dadhich
Protecting the Global Strategy for breastfeeding

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing: The good, the bad, and the toxic

pdf

September 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The UN NCD summit: Oxygen debt
pdf

Commentary

Philip James:
Up to the Summit: Inglorious paths

pdf

Commentary

Barry Popkin, Boyd Swinburn, Camila Giugliani,
Carlos Monteiro, Claudio Schuftan, David Stuckler,
Geoffrey Cannon, Philip James, Ricardo Uauy,
Sabrina Ionata, Walter Willett:
Down from the Summit: So what now

pdf

Correspondence: Why be nice to the transnationals?

Claudio Schuftan, Fabio Gomes, Geoffrey Cannon
pdf

August 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Things may not be what they seem
pdf

Commentary

Oliver Gillie:
Vitamin D: Let the sun shine on you

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing
There is no such thing as a healthy ultra-processed product

pdf

June-July 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The shape of wars to come
pdf

Commentary

Claudio Schuftan:
Food price crises:
'Free markets' cause inequity and hunger

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing
The cost and the value of meals

pdf

Commentary: update of the 2010 Institute of Medicine report

Shiriki Kumanyika, Christina Economos
Prevention of obesity: Finding the best evidence

pdf

May 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The lost principle: Eat meals
pdf

Eulogy for Michael Latham

Annelies Allain, Anthony Kironji, Barrie Margetts, Claudio Schuftan,
Dia Sanou, Geoffrey Cannon, Godwin Ndossi, Joseph Ashong
Katherine Huong, Nwanyinma Nnodum, Olivia Yambi
Reggie Annan, Ted Greiner, Urban Jonsson, Yuliya Tipograf

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing
In praise of the family meal

pdf

April 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

It's the beginning of a new age
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing
The hydrogenation bomb

pdf

DOHaD position paper

The time to prevent disease is before conception
pdf

Correspondence: Ultra-processing

Julio Montero
pdf

March 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Small is ecological
pdf

Commentary

Thomas Samaras
Reasons to be small

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing
Labelling: The Fictions

pdf

Correspondence: RUTFs

Patti Rundall
Arun Gupta, JP Dadhich
George Kent

pdf

Correspondence: Ultra-processing

Lluis Serra-Majem
Carlos Monteiro
Geoffrey Cannon

pdf

February 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The global game of Big Snack
pdf

Commentary

Michael Latham, Urban Jonsson, Elisabeth Sterken, George Kent
RUTF stuff: Can the children be saved with fortified peanut paste?

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro:
Ultra-processing
'Carbs': The answer

pdf

Correspondence

Massimo Serventi:
RUTFs are not the answer in Darfur

pdf

January 2011

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Our first and new year
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
ultra-processing:
The riddle of the Great Food Pyramid

pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro
ultra-processing:
Why bread is ultra-processed

pdf

Position paper

Governance, structure of the UN SCN
pdf

December 2010

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

Nourishing our future
pdf

Position paper

The nature and purpose of the UN SCN
pdf

Correspondence

Marion Nestle:
ultra-processing

pdf

November 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Nutrition science: Time to start again
pdf

Commentary

Carlos Monteiro on ultra-processing
The big issue

pdf

October 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Conferences: What for?
pdf

Commentary

Keith West, Rolf Klemm, Alfred Sommer
Vitamin A saves lives. Sound evidence, sound policy

pdf

September 2010

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Conferences: What for?
pdf

Commentary

Colothur Gopalan
My life in nutrition

pdf

July

Cover,masthead,contents
pdf

Editorial

Malnutrition. The experts disagree
pdf

Commentary

Urban Jonsson. The rise and fall of paradigms
In world food and nutrition policy

pdf

Correspondence

Brian Thompson and Leslie Amoroso, Barbara Burlingame,
Urban Jonsson, Cecilia Florencio:
The great vitamin A fiasco

pdf

Ala Alwan:
Marketing food to children: Are the UN agencies helpless?

pdf

June 2010

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf

Editorial

The UNSCN. Is it necessary to re-invent it?
pdf

Editorial

The preservation of the world
pdf

Commentary

Harriet Kuhnlein. Here is the good news
pdf

Correspondence

Colothur Gopalan, HPS Sachdev and Umesh Kapil, Soerkirnan and
others, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Keith West and Alfred Sommer,
Malden Nesheim, Vinodini Reddy, Ted Greiner, George Kent, Lois Englberger and Harriet Kuhnlein, Graham Lyons: The great vitamin A fiasco

pdf

Correspondence

Alexander Müller, Fabio Gomes
Marketing food to children: Are the UN agencies helpless?

pdf

May 2010

Cover, masthead, contents
pdf
Manifesto
pdf

Editorial

Hunger: For what, why, and what to do?
pdf

Commentary

Michael Latham
The great vitamin A fiasco

pdf


Commentaries, editorials (not WN)


May 2010

Marketing food products to children:
Are the UN agencies helpless?

pdf

April 2010

Seeing the big public health picture

March 2010

The nature of public health nutrition
What is our mission now?

March 2010

Fundamental and elemental public health



This month


March 2012

Ultra-processing is back!

February 2012

Celebrating our columnists

January 2012

Our story to come

December 2011

Our story so far

November 2011

Can the UN stand up for rights, equity, justice?

October 2011

Down from the summit... and so, what?

September 2011

Up to the summit... and down, to what?

August 2011

The way of the world now

July 2011

The environmental dimension

June 2011

The poetry and the politics of nutrition

May 2011

In praise of shared meals

April 2011

Nothing worthwhile is easy

March 2011

Commitments and causes

February 2011

Building our house

January 2011

Interesting new year

December 2010

Whoosh!

Novemeber 2010

Africa. It is time to be fair

October 2010

New term resolutions

September 2010

Mountains to climb

July-August 2010

Doing good jobs well

June 2010

Telling it like it is

May 2010

Life is a journey

April 2010

Questions of balance

March 2010

Here we are again



Events: Rio 2012


March 2012

Rio by night
Our sixth line-up of speakers

February 2012 Our fifth line-up of speakers

January 2012 Our fourth line-up of speakers

December 2011 Our third line-up of speakers

November 2011

Our second line-up of speakers

October 2011

Our first line-up of speakers

September 2011

Creation of our visual identity

August 2011

Making interactivity work for us

July 2011

Abstract submission is open

June 2011

Job done! Registration is open

June 2011

The programme structure is fixed

June 2011

Purpose and principles

June 2011

Our spirals: what they mean

May 2011

Meet the key organisers

April 2011

After Obama, us

March 2011

Rio2012: The movie

February 2011

Preliminary programme

September 2010

Rio 2012: The countdown begins now

April 2010

And the winner is... Rio!



Columns / blogs Claudio Schuftan


March 2012

My hero, Cicely Williams
Poverty is the cause of malnutrition

February 2012

What to do in an unfair world
Charity versus rights

January 2012

My move to California
Whose place in the SUN?

December 2011

What is 'sustainable development'?
What we learn from Occupy

November 2011

Report on Social Determinants
The long road to democracy

October 2011

Empowering communities
Steps towards real democracy

September 2011

The people are moving in LA
New philanthropy: What goes down

August 2011

The SUN rises, alas
Claudio's new clarion call

July 2011

The SUN rises, alas
Claudio's new clarion call

June 2011

Letter to a young nutritionist:
Fight to stay with your vision

May 2011

Remember protein and energy
Forget silver bullets

April 2011

Report from the PHM in Dakar
Brace up, comrades!

March 2011

The People's Health Movement
WHO – in whose interests?

February 2011

Halfdan Mahler's vision
The key: primary health care

January 2011

What Eduardo Galeano tells us
Nutritionists of the world, unite!

December 2010

My letter from Ouagadougou
The fight for global equity

October 2010

21 reasons why MDGs can't work
Structural reasons for world poverty

September 2010

The human right to nutrition
Problems with the medical model

July-August 2010

Neoliberalism? You're on your own
Up the Peoples Health Movement!




Columns / blogs Geoffrey Cannon


March 2012

Grazing in Orlando
Fructose: what's the big deal?

February 2012

Why men obsess about big breasts
Why dieting made Lord Byron fat

January 2012

Celebrating Lynn Margulis
Unwrapping sweet secrets

December 2011

What life and death tell us
Good food goes bad

November 2011

Trees, the environment, and nutrition
Be small and get out of tight spots

October 2011

Snake oil can be good stuff
The story of the great food scandal

September 2011

Where the coffee comes from
Genius acts of marketing: a fable

August 2011

What Rupert Murdoch tells us
Making the food-health link

July 2011

What it feels like to be living history
The environmental dimension

June 2011

The disaster of 'development'
Wit and wisdom of JK Galbraith

May 2011

Sports superstars who are short
USAID secrets revealed

April 2011

Hot stuff on trans fats
Learning from Henry James

March 2011

Fundamental and elemental health
Learning from Mark Twain

February 2011

Amazon vision – one of three
The legacy of Glyn Davys

January 2011

Leo Tolstoy on multicausality
Are computers taking us over?

December 2010

Santa the Coke™ salesman
Why learned journals are boring

November 2010

On the trail of the Passivists
How to play Bullshit Bingo

October 2010

Hot gossips from Porto
Are booze and drugs nourishing?

September 2010

Burgers, fries and statin, please
Let's make nutrition sexy

July-August 2010

Are short people 'stunted'?
TNCs. children, the World Cup

June 2010

In praise of electronic publishing
Why Darwin was not a Darwinist

May 2010

Why we need to understand history
Kids are entranced by glamour food

April 2010

Pepsi-Co says it's saving the children
Three score years and ten – is that it?

March 2010

The cult of individualism
Referencing, why?




Columns / blogs Reggie Annan


March 2012

Death at birth (2)
What UNICEF is doing

January, February 2012

Death at birth
Round-up of 2011

November, December 2011

More on FANUS
The fruits of Africa

September, October 2011

Inspiration from FANUS
Africa needs its own solutions

July 2011

Nutrition and AIDS in Africa
Protecting mothers and children

June 2011

No column in June

May 2011

Young African leaders
Testimonies for a new era

April 2011

Taboos like where I come from
Inspiration from Uganda

March 2011

West African diversity
Me and Dr Nkrumah

February 2011

Report from Namibia
Testimony from Uganda

January 2011

I continue to speak for Africa
Building competence and capacity

December 2010

African nutritionists are uniting
Thanks, Hillary Rodham Clinton

November 2010

We must not fail Africa now
World class learning in Kenya

October 2010

A new African nutrition society
MDGs: looking on the bright side

September 2010

Honouring Nelson Mandela
MDGs: Just a dream in Africa?

July-August 2010

African malnutrition: UNICEF's
Nutrition emergencies: RUTF stuff

June 2010

The deep reasons for malnutrition
What can be done in emergencies

May 2010

Building capacity in Africa
Plumpy'nut politicking

April 2010

Inspiring young leaders in the field
The politics of severe malnutrition




Columns / blogs Fabio Gomes


July 2011

(Column ceased in June)

June 2011

China gets burgered
Joke of the month: Meat water

May 2011

Junk food: colour it delicious
Gross Shrek tells UK kids to jog

April 2011

Retiring Ronald McDonald
Shampoo you can drink

March 2011

Fruit and froot – spot the difference
It's back! Safe water on tap

February 2011

I promise you poems and song
Industry codes: don't believe a word

January 2011

Enjoy! My message for 2011
Here is the bad – and good - news

December 2010

The fight to regulate junk ads
Bottled water: a joke on you

November 2010

Why do we tout soft drinks?
Brazil battles for health

October 2010

Why it's best to eat fruits in season
Candid camera: what agronomists eat

September 2010

My enjoyment of real fun food
Vitaminwater™: in the dock?

July-August 2010

The human right to good food
More on processed food and tobacco

June 2010

Tales from my father
Nestlé wants to own our water

May 2010

World Urban Forum report
Raining on Rio – the meaning for us

April 2010

Can soft drinks be like cigarettes?
Advertising to children: latest news

March 2010

Public health law. Pepsi and PepsiCo
Taxing soft drinks – a good idea!


March

World Nutrition


WN

Fortification

Folic acid and
spina bifida


Mark Lawrence
Access cover, contents here
Access editorial here


WN

The Food System



Big Food bitten


Geoffrey Cannon
Access commentary here


March
COLUMNS

Philip James

From Cairo

Moving on to 2015-2025
How to work with industry

Click here


Geoffrey Cannon

From São Paulo

The five dimensions of nutrition
It is best to be small

Click here


Claudio Schuftan

From Bangkok

A tale of three meetings
How nice to meet Dr Nabarro

Click here


Reggie Annan

From Kumasi

Cancer in Africa:
Prevention and control

Click here


April issue
Out on 1 April


WN

New book

Cooking




Michael Pollan

Available on 1 April