High food prices are exposing yet another risk of our hyper-concentrated global food system and strengthening the case for more diversified and decentralized alternatives.
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A ‘right to grow’ law encouraging more locally-grown food could boost health, community pride and food supply resilience.
We looked at 37 studies which show eating ultra-processed foods is bad for our health. So why are we eating more of them than ever before?
If the food movement’s goal is to reclaim a corporatised food system by ‘rebuilding the public sphere from the ground up’, what does this look like?
Too much refined sugar in your diet is not just a risk factor for obesity and diabetes, it also increases your chances of heart disease.
No wonder obesity is a tough public health issue for governments to deal with. Our research has uncovered a range of barriers to tackling it, some more obvious than others.
While other nations have successfully reduced their sodium intake, Australians are still eating too much salt. And we’re paying the price with our health; a high-salt diet can lead to high blood pressure…
Criticism of the food industry has itself become a niche industry. But the tendency to embrace a US-centric conception of how the industry works risks masking local variants and inhibiting a targeted response…
On Saturday night, just hours before the latest quarter-finals of the World Cup, viewers watching SBS World News were exposed to over two and a half minutes of marketing for Coca-Cola. And that’s not even…
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Phillip Baker is a Friend of The Conversation.Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Professor, Food Policy. Director of World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Population Salt Reduction, George Institute for Global Health
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Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
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Doctoral researcher in public health law, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Chair Professor in Sustainability, Lancaster University
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Development Studies, University of Toronto
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Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Cranfield University
