Findings from The Nation's Diet : an ESRC research programme.

18 loose pages, each summarising the main findings from a project that was part of the Nation's Diet research programme, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

"When this Programme was launched in 1992, it was already possible to suggest that Britons were perhaps more food conscious than at any previous moment in the nation's history. As we remarked then, food is simultaneously a familiar part of the daily round, the centre of a massive industry, the subject of major biomedical inquiry and, as a result, a constant item in the news. All this provided the rationale for the first Research Programme the ESRC had ever mounted on food choice - a rationale which, if anything, has even more force now. The Programme's purpose was to begin remedying the lack of any extensive, systematic, social scientific study of quite why we eat what we do. The six-year £1.6 million, multi-disciplinary basic social science Programme was arranged in three parts. The first phase of eight projects began in 1992, with a second phase, of another eight, beginning in 1994. The final part, added later, comprised two one-year Programme research fellowships. They were all based at academic research centres in England, Scotland and Wales. This pack contains summaries of some of their main findings."--From inside folder cover.

Swindon : Economic and Social Research Council, [1997?]

18 loose sheets : colour illustrations ; in folder 30 x 22 cm

Title from cover.

Phase 1. Concepts of health eating : a comparative anthropological investigation (phase 1) -- Dietary change among South Asians and Italians in Glasgow -- Teaching and learning about food and nutrition in schools -- The effect on the family of one member's change in diet -- The effects of life stress on food choice -- The psychological determinants of children's food preferences -- The role of the media in the emergence of food panics -- What we eat and why : a socio-economic study of standard items in food consumption -- Phase 2. Ambivalence about health-related dietary change -- Concepts of healthy eating : a comparative anthropological investigation (phase 2) -- Constructing the consumer interest : retailing, regulation and food quality -- Consumption, diet and aging : the construction of food choice in later life -- Eating out and eating in : households and food choice -- Eating out and eating in : households and food choice -- Food choices made by mothers on behalf of babies and young children -- The decision not to eat meat : an analysis of changing preferences -- The marriage menu : food and diet in transition after marriage -- Programme Research Fellows. After the store wars/return to the high street? : changing conditions of competition and regulation in UK food retailing -- Employment status, domestic situation and food choice.