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Articles on Healthy food
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It’s not just a storm in a fruit cup – branding fuels our appetite for unhealthy foods.
Obesity is not a rational choice. But there is scope for governments to get involved and improve our options.
New data on soaring child obesity should not come as a surprise. The food industry spends billions marketing unhealthy foods in a global society where over-eating is seen as a character flaw.
A lot of money is spent by food producers and retailers to try and influence the type of food we buy and eat. But what can be done to encourage healthier choices?
Consumers tend to think that healthy foods have to cost more than their less nutritional counterparts. New psychological research looks at how pervasive this is.
We hear about the benefits of antioxidants, but who knows what they really do? Actually, quite a lot. They repair cellular damage caused by trouble-making free radicals.
Chia, acai, quinoa, guradji - our supermarket shelves are awash with superfoods. They may well be healthy but in attributing magical qualities to these products are we glossing over an often-exploitative global food system?
Many people believe eating healthily is expensive – and more costly than buying junk food. But our new research shows this isn’t the case.
Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed…
The mere sight of a slice of gooey chocolate cake, a cheesy pizza, or a sizzling burger can drive us to eat these foods. In terms of evolution we show preference for high calorie foods as they are an important…
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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