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Eating lots of cake at your desk is clearly not so healthy but eating with colleagues can boost your mood and your productivity.
Do you feel the need to clean your plate? Does a bowl of salty chips seem completely irresistible? Understanding your ‘eating personality’ could stop you eating or drinking too much these holidays.
Try to avoid eating an hour or two before a workout.
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.
Your body might need a nudge to return to its pre-lockdown weight. And it’s probably better to act now than wait.
A fly does some of its digesting outside its body before it even eats any food.
After over a year of stress eating and seeing each other only through screens, anxiety over changes in physical appearance can make socializing again a daunting prospect.
All that planning, shopping, prepping, serving and cleaning can pay off with better physical and mental health for all members of the family.
It’s been a stressful year, and for 61% of US adults, a year of unwanted weight change too. This isn’t surprising, as stress, eating and motivation are all linked through hormones in the brain.
Experts weigh in on whether they will sit and eat at a restaurant.
COVID-19 showed us we can’t necessarily have anything we want at any hour of the day, or in any season.
All too often the medical community ‘fat-shames’ patients trying to lose weight, when in fact obesity and overweight are complicated medical issues.
The colour, size, shape and weight of your cutlery and crockery affect how you eat. Your popcorn can seem saltier and your coffee sweeter.
During these stressful times, if you find yourself reaching into the pantry of your past, you’re probably not alone.
A spike in flour sales and an increase in home cooked meals could signal the start of a new healthier relationship with food.
To boost your immune defenses against corona and other viruses, one of the most effective things you can do is maintain your natural circadian rhythms. Here’s how to do that.
Olive oil, grapes and fish. There’s a lot to love about the Mediterranean diet but focusing on it might be a way to exclude other healthy and global diets.
Would a ban on snacking on public transport really help combat obesity? An expert in nutrition weighs in.
New research on consumer behavior shows that we tend to match some types of choices the people around us make, but not others.
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Diet and Population Health, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Research professor, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow: Food and Urban Systems, University of Helsinki
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
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Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
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Professor emeritus, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Emeritus Professor of Education, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
