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A recent study has shown consuming minimally-processed, home-cooked foods is better for your weight and your overall health.
Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish for themselves to serve as backup for the kids too.
From replacing meat with pulses to eating more eggs, these top tips will reduce the environmental impact of your diet while improving the nutritional value and cutting costs.
Indonesians are consuming more and more processed foods, including sugary drinks, salty snacks, junk food, and unhealthy fats. These changes take a toll on people’s health, as well as the environment…
Nearly two-thirds of suburbs in one major part of Sydney have no food stores at all. And in those that do, unhealthy food outlets outnumber healthy ones by more than six to one.
You want to look as if you’ve put in a bit of effort, but don’t want to blow the budget. Here are some top tips of what to take to Christmas.
Diets high in fat, sugar and processed foods are associated with higher calorie intake, poorer memory and lower cognitive function.
Experts say making meals available to all students reduces the stigma associated with a free lunch.
We developed a healthy lunchbox program. Here, we provide parents with ideas for swapping unhealthy foods kids might like to healthier ones comparable on cost, taste, texture and preparation time.
A disruption of societal norms created by industry interference is urgently required to create a shift in the food system.
Conflicting injunctions, shaped locally, constantly reinvented: food in the cities of the global south escapes the narrative of Western standardisation.
The constraints of COVID-19 can act as a catalyst to eat more thoughtfully and, perhaps, eat better.
A spike in flour sales and an increase in home cooked meals could signal the start of a new healthier relationship with food.
One hypothesis suggests that there’s a finite amount of protein that the body can actually use.
The Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020 debated a host of critical issues but never brought up the equally important challenge of Americans’ food security.
The fact that relative food prices differ so markedly and so systematically provides a very strong rationale for nutrition-focused food policies.
Research into our brain, gut and childhood memories tells us why we reach for macaroni cheese rather than salad in winter.
It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering the very real environmental and structural constraints present in South Africa.
Fast-food outlets outnumber healthy food stores in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
Top contributors
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Professor (Public Health), University of Newcastle
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Assistant Teaching Professor in Nutritional Sciences, Penn State
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Associate Professor in Translational Medicine, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Bond University
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BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Health Promotion, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Marketing, Vanderbilt University
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Professor, Public Health Policy, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), Nutritional neuroscientist, Adelaide University
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Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Lecturer and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Adelaide University
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Associate Director and Researcher at the Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Newcastle