Understanding science

6: Food: need, safety and availability

Seminar date: 2 March 2001

• Introduction
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Biological Bases of Nutrition

• Sir John Walker FRS
  We are what we eat
• Professor Alan Lucas FMedSci
  Sensitive periods in nutrition: relationship to late onset disease
• Professor Stephen O'Rahilly FRCP
  Food and obesity

Topic 2 Constraint on the Market: Safety

• Professor Chris Leaver FRS
  Genetically modified foods: opportunities, costs and benefits
• Professor Hugh Pennington FRSE
  Food borne infections: the cases of Escherichia coli and BSE

Topic 3 Regional and Global Issues

• Dr John Powles
  Regional variations in diet-related diseases
• Professor Michael Lipton DLitt
  Food abundance and scarcity: economic and political factors

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 6: Food: need, safety and availability
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/food/

Seminar presented: 02/03/2001