Fixing Business: Making Profitable Business Work for The Good of All

About the Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics book series

Dietary recommendations need to be based on solid evidence, but where can you find this information? The British Dietetic Association and the publishers of the Manual of Dietetic Practice present an essential and authoritative reference series on the evidence–base relating to advanced aspects of nutrition and dietetics in selected clinical areas. Each book provides a comprehensive and critical review of key literature in the area. Each covers established areas of understanding, current controversies and areas of future development and investigation, and is oriented around six key themes:

Disease processes, including metabolism, physiology, and genetics Disease consequences, including morbidity, mortality and patient perspectives Clinical investigation and management Nutritional consequences of diseases Nutritional assessment, drawing on anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, and dietary approaches Nutritional and dietary management of disease

Trustworthy, international in scope, and accessible, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics is a vital resource for a range of practitioners, researchers and educators in nutrition and dietetics, including dietitians, nutritionists, doctors and specialist nurses.

 

This addition to the British Dietetic Association Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics book series is written for clinicians and researchers who work with any aspect of obesity and its comorbid conditions. Featuring contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the globe Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity offers a uniquely international perspective on what has become a worldwide public health crisis.

Chapters cover a full range of new ideas and research on the underlying drivers of obesity in populations including discussions on the genetic and clinical aspects of obesity, along with expert recommendations on how to effectively manage and prevent this chronic and persistent disease.

Providing a comprehensive overview of the key literature in this field, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity is an invaluable resource for all those all those whose work should or does embrace any aspect of obesity. 

Chapter 1: Something is wrong and it s everybody s business

Chapter 2: Where the battle is being lost: Fixing the reputation of business

Chapter 3: Achieving socially inclusive wealth creation

Chapter 4: Harnessing the power of education, training and skills

Chapter 5: Protecting the environment: An essential priority

Chapter 6: The boardroom: Executive pay and the gulf between big and small Business

Chapter 7: Dealing with a post–Brexit world

Chapter 8: What′s Next: Life after Brexit

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Index

Lord Digby Jones served as Director General of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry, the UK′s Voice of Business) from 2000 until 2006. In2006 he became the UK Skills Envoy and in 2007 he was appointed Minister of State for UK Trade & Investment. He did not join the party of government and without ambition to progress in politics he concentrated on the business of promoting Britain across the world, traveling to 31 countries in 45 overseas visits.

Born in Birmingham, Lord Jones originally joined the Royal Navy, before graduating from University College London and joining the law firm Edge & Ellison, rising from Articled Clerk to Senior Partner. In 1998 he joined KPMG as vice–chairman of corporate finance, before taking up his role at the CBI.

In 2005 he was knighted for his services to business and became Sir Digby Jones in The Queen′s New Year s Honours List. In 2007 he became a life peer taking the title, Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt.

Today Lord Jones sits as an active cross–bencher in the House of Lords and is an official United Kingdom Business Ambassador. He speaks regularly to business audiences both in the UK and overseas. He serves in the private sector as Chairman of the international Business Advisory Boards of HSBC and British Airways, a Corporate Ambassador for Jaguar Cars and JCB, and Chairman of Triumph Motorcycles, among a number of pair and unpaid roles.

He holds a number of charity positions, is a non–executive director of Leicester Tigers Rugby and lives with his wife Pat in Marylebone and Warwickshire.