Dr. Sarah Berry

We need to be educating our children how to cook. We need to be giving... healthy school meals. We need to be educating them in schools. What is a healthy meal? What isn't a healthy meal? What is a healthy food? But I think that something that's so important is this current state of fear, I think.

We need to be educating our children how to cook. We need to be giving... healthy school meals. We need to be educating them in schools. What is a healthy meal? What isn't a healthy meal? What is a healthy food? But I think that something that's so important is this current state of fear, I think.

I think we're in a perilous state at the moment of there are some people making a lot of noise in the media about scientists working with industry, how any research funded by industry is therefore dangerous. Bias. It's corrupt. Can't be trusted. That's certainly not my experience. It's not what I have ever seen from any other colleagues taking money from food industry in order to do studies.

I think we're in a perilous state at the moment of there are some people making a lot of noise in the media about scientists working with industry, how any research funded by industry is therefore dangerous. Bias. It's corrupt. Can't be trusted. That's certainly not my experience. It's not what I have ever seen from any other colleagues taking money from food industry in order to do studies.

We as nutrition scientists need to do studies. We need to run clinical trials in order to look at how we can improve their food to make it healthier. The amount of funding we get from independent government bodies is tiny. To get funding, the amount of time we have to spend as academics writing grants to be rejected and rejected because the government invests so little in nutrition research.

We as nutrition scientists need to do studies. We need to run clinical trials in order to look at how we can improve their food to make it healthier. The amount of funding we get from independent government bodies is tiny. To get funding, the amount of time we have to spend as academics writing grants to be rejected and rejected because the government invests so little in nutrition research.

We need to be able to get funding to be able to run studies to answer important questions. The money and the experience I've had from those around me when we receive funding from research, when we receive funding from industry... There is very limited involvement that they are allowed to have with what we do. And the university ensure that. We conduct the research. We do the analysis.

We need to be able to get funding to be able to run studies to answer important questions. The money and the experience I've had from those around me when we receive funding from research, when we receive funding from industry... There is very limited involvement that they are allowed to have with what we do. And the university ensure that. We conduct the research. We do the analysis.

We publish the paper. The industry funders cannot get involved in that process. So I still see it as independent. Now, there is discussion about are they setting the agenda of that research? You know, there's something we could talk about for days and days. But I think this narrative that's out there that just because a study is being funded by the food industry is biased is wrong.

We publish the paper. The industry funders cannot get involved in that process. So I still see it as independent. Now, there is discussion about are they setting the agenda of that research? You know, there's something we could talk about for days and days. But I think this narrative that's out there that just because a study is being funded by the food industry is biased is wrong.

And I think it's unhelpful. And it's putting these exposes that certain media personalities are putting forward. that if an academic has taken money from a food industry, that therefore they cannot be advising us on food, they cannot be trusted for their research. I think that that's a real problem for us as nutrition scientists because it's creating a time of fear.

And I think it's unhelpful. And it's putting these exposes that certain media personalities are putting forward. that if an academic has taken money from a food industry, that therefore they cannot be advising us on food, they cannot be trusted for their research. I think that that's a real problem for us as nutrition scientists because it's creating a time of fear.

And that's why I think all three have to work together. Government need to take big responsibility now.

And that's why I think all three have to work together. Government need to take big responsibility now.

But I think that there has to be an acceptance that academics, scientists, can work with food industry and it doesn't mean that we're corrupt or our results are biased in any way.

But I think that there has to be an acceptance that academics, scientists, can work with food industry and it doesn't mean that we're corrupt or our results are biased in any way.

Do you know what I believe? I believe that life can be simple. That actually all that matters is that... you have good relationships, that you're finding joy in life and that we shouldn't overcomplicate things. And if on my gravestone I have written, Sarah was a nice person, I would be very happy with that. But a lot of the clever people I interact with, I think,

Do you know what I believe? I believe that life can be simple. That actually all that matters is that... you have good relationships, that you're finding joy in life and that we shouldn't overcomplicate things. And if on my gravestone I have written, Sarah was a nice person, I would be very happy with that. But a lot of the clever people I interact with, I think,

wouldn't agree that that's necessarily a good achievement in life. But I see that as a great achievement.

wouldn't agree that that's necessarily a good achievement in life. But I see that as a great achievement.