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A food heath labelling system Australia and New Zealand introduced five years ago is under review and needs a significant overhaul to make it useful for consumers looking for healthy options.
History shows the targets of product tampering bounce back, often with sales stronger than before.
How do foods break into new niches and global markets? US cranberry growers, saddled with large surpluses and working to boost demand for their product, could take a lesson from soybeans.
Bombarded with unhealthy offerings by the food industry, we blame and shame ourselves for gaining weight. But is it really our fault, or are we being "entrapped?"
New research shows how marketers get away with making their food look and sound healthier than it really is.
With the "eating-to-go" habit here to stay, healthier fast food chains have an important role to play in ensuring healthy food options are available.
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Director of Cancer Programs, Cancer Council NSW; PhD Candidate in Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Dietetics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Louise Grimmer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Senior Nutrition Project Officer at Cancer Council NSW and PhD Student in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Sydney
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Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics, University of Southern California
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Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood: Diversity and Transitions, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University
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Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor of Business Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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