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Reassuring your child you love and support them unconditionally is crucial for a healthy relationship.
Chia, acai, quinoa, guradji - our supermarket shelves are awash with superfoods. They may well be healthy but in attributing magical qualities to these products are we glossing over an often-exploitative global food system?
Many people believe eating healthily is expensive – and more costly than buying junk food. But our new research shows this isn’t the case.
Eating more frozen food could help us reduce waste, beat the obesity epidemic and have more money in our pockets – what’s not to like.
Between work Christmas parties, Christmas lunch or dinner, edible presents and New Year’s Eve, it can be an effort not to gain weight.
By bidding the price of unhealthy food down, fast food marketers are normalising everyday consumption.
A new survey shows that we’re healthier than we give ourselves credit for. But could our pessimistic perceptions actually be bad for us?
A child’s diet should be high in fruit and vegetables, high in complex carbohydrates such as brown bread, brown pasta and brown rice and relatively low in fat and sugary foods. It should also be low in…
Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed…
We are on the brink of an important change in how we are encouraged to think about our diet. Britain’s health authorities are considering whether to allow processed or “composite foods” to carry the official…
Diseases linked to smoking tobacco, a lack of exercise, drinking alcohol and eating unhealthily are on the rise, even though we have more information than ever before on the risks involved. All indications…
Ravenous students, busy parents, nutrition professionals and school officials all have their own ideas about what belongs on the school lunch table. Plenty of criticism centers on the unhealthiness of…
The Eatwell plate is the UK government’s official food guide about which foods we should eat to achieve a healthy diet. It is essentially a pie-chart depicting the recommended intakes of five specified…
From celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Money Saving Meals to blogging mum Jack Monroe’s 100 Delicious Budget Recipes to the NHS Eat4Cheap campaign, eating well on a budget is now a national pastime. But research…
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 should be concerned about our children’s diets. In 2011, nearly 10% of four to five-year-olds in the UK were classified as obese. By the time they leave primary school, nearly 20% of children are obese…
With the greatest will in the world, packed lunches often end up full of whatever happens to be left in the fridge or what can be grabbed on a tightly scheduled school run. But this can all now change…
A fifth of four- to five-year-old children in England are overweight or obese, rising to one third by age ten to 11 years. This stark increase during the primary school years points to the potential contribution…
We’ve recently seen some encouraging improvements in closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage: better educational outcomes, higher child immunisation rates, more health checks, and a 35% drop in the…
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences, King's College London
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Lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Professor, Public Health Policy, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Applied Nutrition, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow in Nutrition & Dietetics, The University of Queensland
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Registered Dietitian, Research Fellow, University of Guelph
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Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Research Fellow with the Grow&Go Toolbox, The University of Queensland
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Programme Lead Nutrition and Health, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Food and Nutritional Sciences, London Metropolitan University
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Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney
