As kids, we’re naturally more likely to enjoy sweet and salty tastes and reject bitterness. But that changes as we grow older.
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A new study shows that the gut microbiota has little or no effect on our weight, metabolism and risk of developing chronic diseases.
The festive season provides great motivation to make lifestyle changes around eating habits.
Some eaters have strong sensory sensitivities. Others find eating a chore or develop rigid beliefs around ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods.
Ever eaten that last slice of pizza, even though you’ve had enough? Or polished off kids’ leftovers, despite already feeling full? Here’s what’s happening and how to fix it.
COVID-19 showed us we can’t necessarily have anything we want at any hour of the day, or in any season.
A spike in flour sales and an increase in home cooked meals could signal the start of a new healthier relationship with food.
Everyone knows it’s hard to stop eating potato chips or chocolate chip cookies. New research shows why: Certain combinations of fat, sodium, sugar or carbohydrates make them irresistible.
Baby-led weaning won’t necessarily make your child a less fussy eater, new research finds.
Turning down tasty treats sometimes requires more than just the strength to say no.
This is what happens when emotions eat you up.
Shakespeare wrote of the ‘seven ages of man’, and our appetite for food changes as we age too – with implications for our health.
Canada’s biggest grocery chain is now selling cricket flour under its revered private label. Here’s what that says about contemporary eating habits.
It’s not easy to tackle a live octopus - so many arms, all those suckers! But some bottlenose dolphins have found a way to defuse and eat these eight-armed sea creatures.
If New Year’s resolutions have you in an abstemious mindset when it comes to enjoyment these days, consider a pleasure recalibration based on ‘l'éducation du gout.’
How people respond to changing economic incentives appears to explain a lot of the upward trend in weight.
When it comes to food, believing that you have no self-control can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Poor nutrition is a primary cause behind the rising cost of health care in many developed countries. Although pupils have good knowledge of what is healthy and what is not, that does not always translate…
We’ve all heard those phrases that denote a certain blindness to the passage of time. “She looks as young as the day I met her” husbands say of their wives 50 years into married life, or “haven’t they…
Chinese wildlife faces a serious survival crisis, but the tide seems to be turning in support for protecting endangered species there. China’s top legislative body has passed a new “interpretation” of…
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, University of Bath
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Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, University of Houston-Downtown
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Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex
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Professor of Economics and Director of BLUE, the Behavioural Laboratory, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
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Professor emeritus, University of Adelaide
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Department of Economics, Usery Workplace Research Group, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Reader in Social Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition, Swansea University
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Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
