Our future depends on food: it controls our health, underpins social structures, and helps dictate the political agenda. Among the crucial issues discussed in this challenging study of food by the eminent biologist Brian J. Ford are new food-borne diseases and the dietary needs of the young, the elderly, and women.

He examines the complex questions of genetically modified food and provides important insights into food intolerance and life-threatening allergies, the relationship between food and culture, organic farming, the impact of climate change, and how revolutionary new foods will change the world.

This study aims to cut through the current hysteria, myths and half-truths about healthy eating and food-borne diseases. Ford discusses the role of organic farming; gives insights into the necessary nutrients at different stages of our lives; and examines food allergies and intolerances.