Who we are
Very regularly we get this question. In the first few issues of Medicinal Food News we tried to explain what we are doing but were not as clear as we could have been about who we are and our backgrounds.
Edward Farnworth, the editor-in-chief of Medicinal Food News obtained his Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He presently is a senior research scientist with the Canadian Federal government at the Food Research and Development Centre outside of Montreal, Canada. However, it should be stressed that Medicinal Food News has no connection to any government, Canadian or otherwise, and it is a totally independent business. In his over twenty-five years of research on nutrition, metabolism and food science, Edward came to realize that many people wanted to know more about their diet and how it affected their health, but there were very few places where such people could find easy-to-understand information. Medicinal Food News was born out of the desire to help consumers make informed choices about their diet.
Mike Bryan is the webmaster for Medicinal Food News. Mike also does nutrition / food research for the Canadian government at the Food Research Program in Guelph. Mike has had a long interest in computers and computer programming and was looking for a challenging project to stretch his wings. Mike is responsible for setting up and maintaining everything you see in Medicinal Food News. Behind the scenes he continues to improve the sites look and feel and accessibility for a worldwide audience.
Lee Farnworth is the head of the editorial board. She is a professor at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada. It is Lee’s job to see that all articles get proof read before being published. The criteria she uses are the standard spelling, grammar and punctuation rules, but in addition, she always is asking the question "would someone with very little science knowledge be able to understand this?" At least one academic has criticized us for not being scientific enough, but the overwhelming response by our readers has convinced us that Lee's judgement is just about right.