Yudkin, John

Yudkin, John. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Nutrition. New York Viking, 1985. 

John, J.H., Ziebland, S., Yudkin, P., Roe, L.S., and Neil, H.A.W. 2002. Effects of fruit and vegetable consumption on plasma antioxidant concentrations and blood pressure A randomised eontroUed trial. The Lancet 359, 1969-1974. 

John Yudkin, Department of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, England. Page 39. 

Professor John Yudkin decided that Natural Foods was the true definition and went on to point out that on the scale of man s evolution during the past ten million years, cereals were far too recent an arrival to be reasonably included amongst natural foods, and if anything was done to the raw materials, such as cooking them, then a very unnatural product like bread might emerge. 

It is important to put things into perspective. Although John Yudkin claimed that we were the biggest growing industry he did not quantify our expansion. 1 suppose that in percentage terms we have done pretty well but even now the entire health food sales in Britain, including alternative medicines and vitamins, are certainly smaller than the turnover for potato crisps. 1 have certain doubts as to whether the crisp industry has done as much to increase public awareness and knowledge on the subject of nutrition as we have been able to do. 

It is interesting that in the International Symposium Diet of Man needs and wants last year. Professor John Yudkin was able to say that he believed that the increasing worry about the sorts of diets that people now consume in the West is not at all unjustified, and Lord Trenchard accurately reported that the health food industry works hand in hand with the authorities, even though this is still a small part of the whole scene. 

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