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.
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Hype around ultra-processed food may be causing unnecessary anxiety among people who already struggle with food or worry about their health.
Countries that have adopted clear food labels have seen the health benefits. Researchers explain how a new system to alert South African consumers to unhealthy choices was developed.
The increased availability and consumption of unhealthy food has contributed to poor health outcomes.
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.
B.C. recently began taxing sugary drinks. Examples from Europe show the scientific basis for taxing unhealthy foods may have little impact on whether these taxes are adopted or remain in place.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
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Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, Indiana University
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Research assistant, Western Sydney University, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Political Science, McMaster University
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PhD Candidates, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Researcher in Law and Policy, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetic, University of Limpopo
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Professor in Psychology, University of Liverpool
