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Broadcasting cookery: BBC radio programmes in the 1920s and 1930s
(Wiley, 2016-01-22) Lyon, Phil; Ross, Liz
The development of British radio broadcasting technology in the 1920s and 1930s and, equally importantly, the progressively widespread purchase and use of radio sets established a new platform from which to engage and influence the population on a number of matters. The British Broadcasting Corporation's public service principles of programmes to inform, educate and entertain gave rise to various content experiments at a time when there were very few precedents. One such innovation was the cookery talk. This was broadcast live, accomplished without the possibility of practical demonstration, and constituted a new, and abstract, form of communication primarily designed for women in their own homes. In this, women were the earliest and most frequent contributors, and their broadcast content differed from that provided by men. By reference to archive material, this article examines the social context and the thinking behind those early years of radio cookery talks and documents the contributors who were to establish this now-familiar genre of broadcasting. 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Complementary roles for the personalized behavioural toolbox and public nudges in the sustainability of good food habits among consumers
(University of Bonn, 2011) Schröder, Monika; Lyon, Phil
There is no shortage of knowledge about, or advice on, healthy eating yet we have a continuing paradox of poor diets in rich countries. People often choose to eat some foods too often or in excessive amounts even when they know better. In the longer term, poor diets cause individual health problems and pose a threat to the sustainability of publically-funded health care systems. Obesity, overweight and an increasing susceptability to diet-relaled diseases are now a major source of political and medical concern in many countries. How can people be persuaded to eat a better diet and generally eat less? This paper examines two approaches to the problem. One attempts to empower individuals in making healthier choices, the other focuses on our managing reactions to the way that choices are presented. These appraoaches are also very different in their view of the appropriate levels of public intervention in individual choice and beguilingly suggest different cost options for countries already struggling with economic difficulties. However, least cost may be wrong choice for health care sustainability.
Consumer choice for hearing aids and listening devices: newspaper advertisements for UK private sector provision
(Wiley, 2011-01-15) Ross, Liz; Cathcart, Craig; Lyon, Phil
In the UK there can be several ways to access health care and this is true of hearing aid provision. Although there may appear to be a well-defined distinction between the National Health Service (NHS) and independent dispenser hearing aid provision, there have been many examples of overlap between the two and recent government policy initiatives mean that distinctions have become less clear. This article outlines the changing relationship between the two sectors and the problems that potential consumers face accessing information on private sector options for amplification devices. A 1-year sample of newspaper advertisements was content-analysed for clarity of information provided. The analysis highlighted a range of provision, from well-known hearing aid dispensers to the greyer areas of listening device retailers and intermediary services. Some advertisements were found to have been reported to the Advertising Standards Authority. Sufficiently misleading adverts may also infringe consumer protection legislation. The article concludes there is the possibility of consumer confusion about products and their potential for amelioration.
Continuity in the kitchen: how younger and older women compare in their food practices and use of cooking skills
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-08) Lyon, Phil; Mattson Synder, Y.; Fjellstrom, C.; Janhonen-Abruquah, H.; Schrder, Monika; Colqhoun, A.
Comparisons between younger and older women in the kitchen usually focus on the historical argument that younger women do not have the domestic cooking skills of their mothers or grandmothers. At one level, this is convincing because there is now demonstrably greater reliance on ready meals and processed foods, and less on the home production of meals from raw ingredients. Compared with the immediate post-Second World War years, not so much time is routinely spent in the kitchen, and food preparation is no longer a task central to the lives of many women. The availability of meals or meal components requiring less domestic labour and improved kitchen technology are both factors in this transformation of women's lives. However, they are not just available to the young. So, this research questions the impact of these factors across the age spectrum. Older women may have had very different domestic experiences earlier in their lives but have they now converged with the practices of younger women? How do younger and older women compare in terms of their food practices and the cooking skills they currently use in the kitchen? Using Scottish questionnaire data from a cross-national study, this paper reports on the differences and similarities for 37 younger women (25-45 years; mean 32 years) and 43 older women (60-75 years; mean 68 years) in their actual use of specific food preparation and cooking techniques, the kind of meals they made, and the extent to which they ate out or ordered in meals for home consumption. Results indicated that while there were some differences in food preparation, the use of fresh ingredients and the style of cooking undertaken in the home, these were mostly marginal. There were similar response patterns for the adequacy of their domestic facilities and equipment. There was, however, a notable divergence in their patterns of eating meals out, or phoning out for meals. These data suggest that while younger and older women - different cooking generations - do differ, the way they differ is related more to current lifestyle factors than to any highly differentiated domestic food preparation and cooking skills.
Editorial
(2015-07) Lyon, Phil
Embedding healthy eating: nudging or toolbox?
(Emerald, 2013-07) Schröder, Monika; Lyon, Phil
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the rationale and limitations of public nudging approaches currently to be found in the UK food choice environment. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses a critical review of the literature with case studies. Findings: Nudging has potential value to assist healthier food choices, although the current focus of proponents tends to be the individual micro-environment for selection rather than the wider food choice context. Ethical questions are raised by nudging as a policy and limited evidence of success to date would suggest that a combination of personalised tools and public nudges - individual empowerment and attention to the choice environment - might be more effective for embedded healthier eating. Originality/value: This paper contrasts the underlying assumptions of the nudge approach by reference to the behavioural toolbox. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Escaping a silent world: profound hearing loss, cochlear implants and household interaction
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007) Ross, Liz; Lyon, Phil
For some people with profound hearing loss, cochlear implants offer a way back to patterns of communication that most of us take for granted. Travel, shopping and work contexts are largely dependent on the ability to recognize and respond to speech. This study examined implant user and partner perspectives on problems and coping strategies. The aim was to map the experiences of adults and their hearing partners living with deafness; and the changes brought about by cochlear implant use. Information was gathered by means of recorded joint interviews in a semi-structured form with implant users and their partners. Interview themes including social isolation, employment difficulties and loss of confidence emerged as main difficulties prior to implantation. All participants were positive regarding the use of cochlear implants and, after implantation, benefits accrued in communication and social interaction. Provision of multidisciplinary support and consumer information for severe/profoundly hearing impaired adults was seen as problematic. Sample size - six couples - reflected the limited number of adult cochlear implant operations performed in Scotland. However, the results indicate their interactional experiences to be worthy of further investigation on a larger scale.
Good food and hard times: Ambrose Heath's contribution to British food culture of the 1930s and the war years.
(Brepols, 2015) Lyon, Phil
Today, little attention is paid to Ambrose Heath (1891-1969) although he was a prolific British food writer in the 1930s and during the Second World War. Heath's remarkable output for national and regional newspapers in Britain and the many books he wrote, co-authored, edited, contributed to or translated provided a considerable encouragement for what he termed 'good food'. In one sense, he might be viewed simply as an intermediary between 'authentic' gastronomic voices and a wider readership; however, his engagement with that audience was no mean feat and, arguably, was important for the successful diffusion of a more cosmopolitan culinary culture. Although a staunch defender of British ingredients and traditional dishes, he was perplexed by what he saw as the widespread atrophy of cooking skills in Britain and reached for French culinary ideas to show what might be done - simply and economically but producing the hallmark 'good food' he espoused. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the 'good food' narrative was largely eclipsed but, on the basis of his pre-war popularity, he contributed significantly to the way that the wartime government, and ordinary people, tried to make inadequate food supplies meet demands. He wrote and broadcast to advise the civilian population what they could do to make food interesting even with restricted supplies and vital ingredients missing. Although he played an important part in that wartime resilience, he is now virtually forgotten in reviews of that era. This article examines his contribution to British food culture in the 1930s and the war years.
Pills, potions and devices: treatments for hearing loss advertised in mid-nineteenth century British newspapers.
(Oxford Journals, 2014-01) Ross, Liz; Lyon, Phil; Cathcart, Craig
This article examines the ameliorative options facing people with hearing loss in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. As reflected in professional journals of the day, medical understanding of diseases and dysfunctions of the ear was limited, yet there was vigorous assertion and counter-claim as to the cause and treatment of problems. At the time, medicine was largely unregulated and quack practitioners were also able to promote their nostrums and services to a credulous the general public with little chance of a genuine cure for their hearing loss. Using the nineteenth-century British Library Newspapers Archive for 1850, 379 advertisements offering cures for deafness were identified and examined to illustrate the variety of nostrums and devices offered to the public. Individuals with hearing loss were easy prey when even qualified medical practitioners had little understanding of cause or treatment, and when scant legal protection protected them from fraudulent treatment claims or offered redress for their failure.
Sanders Bros: the rise and fall of a British grocery giant, by Neil Tyler, Stroud, The History Press, 2014, 192 pp., 14.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-75095-621-5
(Taylor & Francis, 2015) Lyon, Phil
Seeking a new normality: Masculinity, interaction and a gluten free diet
(Science and Education Publishing, 2016-12-01) Kautto, E.; Olsson, C.; Ivarsson, A.; Lyon, Phil; Hornell, A.; Alex, L.
From earlier studies, men diagnosed with celiac disease are known to be less troubled by their experiences of living with the disease than are diagnosed women. Previous studies, concentrating on men with celiac disease have been mostly quantitative, and have a bio-medical emphasis. The aim of this study was to explore the social experience of young men with screening-detected celiac disease and to highlight daily life situations five years after diagnosis. Seven young men, diagnosed with celiac disease when they were 13 years-olds through a large Swedish school-based celiac screening-study, were interviewed. The semi-structured interviews were analyzed from a gender perspective which resulted in three themes; being subjected to changes, striving for normality and emphasizing commitment. These were underpinned by several sub-themes. The young men dissociated themselves from being seen as a person with a life-long chronic disease. The analysis also showed that the young men's daily experiences of living with celiac disease largely depended on their use of characteristics known to be associated with masculinity: such as being self-assured, demanding, and behaving authoritatively. In food situations, where the young men had the ability to make use of such characteristics in their informal group, they experienced fewer negative aspects of the disease. If the young men did not hold a strong position in their informal group, their situation was insecure and vulnerable and this could lead to avoidance of contacts and social meal situations. Science and Education Publishing.
The Eclipse of Cooking and Meals: How primary care nurses now frame dietary advice
(Nova Science Publishers, 2010) Lyon, Phil; Schroder, Monika; Bell, Fiona; Fortier, Andre; Turcotte, Sophie
Book Description: Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health. Recent statistics show that, in many countries, one in four individuals will experience mental illness during their lifetime, with mental health conditions contributing more to disability than any other single disease group, including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The Emergency Department (ED) may be the only site where some isolated and marginalized mentally ill populations such as the homeless receive their healthcare - medical as well as psychiatric. The authors of this book examine mental health and illness in the ED. Challenges presented in nursing patients who attend an ER following an incident of self-harm or attempted suicide is also examined. In addition, researchers have reported that children are involved in very few conversations with their doctors. Positive practices relating to improved doctor-child communications are discussed. Other chapters in this book examine the use of drugs among adolescents, children's and parents perceptions about managing their diabetes, a discussion on how the concept of spirituality is defined/described in the professional health literature, the importance of understanding lay appraisal of illness symptoms as a facet of successful health education interventions, and the role of primary care practice nurses in making patients aware of changes that could improve their health.