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Fat-shaming is as ineffective as it is cruel. The bullying tactic also ignores the biological factors underlying obesity, which are not always under a person's control.
To understand how healthy a food is, we often look at fats and proteins, vitamins and minerals. But this approach overlooks one property that's a key part of a food's health potential – its structure.
Most people know that a poor diet can lead to heart disease, diabetes and even cancer. Few are aware that it can also cause blindness.
Our new study finds in Australian supermarkets, the lower the health star rating, the higher the discounts. The time is ripe for a national conversation about making discounts healthier.
Students gain up to 4kg in their first year at university and all the junk food on campus doesn't help. Universities have a responsibility to make healthier foods available to students.
If any other condition affected as many children and contributed to as many long-term health problems as obesity does, we would have had an action plan long ago. But it's not too late to start.
The mixed messages around children, food and weight - not to mention sophisticated marketing - can leave parents perplexed. But there are ways to wade through it all and find healthy choices.
Food education in Australia tends to be patchy, and doesn't fully met the present and future life needs of students and their families.
It's not just a storm in a fruit cup – branding fuels our appetite for unhealthy foods.
A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows we're eating less junk food than before, but still far too much.
The diabetes epidemic can be fought through new therapies, prevention programmes and effective junk food legislation.
Research shows eating foods with a lower glycaemic load, and more fruits and vegetables, will improve your complexion.
Social media platforms can identify children who are most interested in or vulnerable to junk food and its advertising.
France recently adopted NutriScore, a series of simple colour codes that will allow consumers to easily identify the healthiest foods. But some of the biggest food conglomerates are fighting back.
New data on soaring child obesity should not come as a surprise. The food industry spends billions marketing unhealthy foods in a global society where over-eating is seen as a character flaw.
Here's what happened to a professor of genetic epidemiology's 'microbiome' when he lived with the Hadza.
There's an assumption that the poor eat more unhealthy fast food because it's relatively cheap, leading some governments to try limit their access. Two researchers tested that assumption.
Junk food brands are blurring the line between advertising, entertainment and socialising.
No wonder we're addicted to junk food. Neuroscience shows food packaging affects our enjoyment of these foods, and plays on the same brain processes as hard drug addiction.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition; Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Director of Cancer Programs, Cancer Council NSW; PhD Candidate in Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Sydney
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Principal Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Engagement, Australian Catholic University
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Associate professor, and Associate Director of the Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Deakin University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of South Australia
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Sr Research Fellow/ Sr Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Director, Centre for Employee and Consumer Wellbeing; Senior Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
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Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, University of Auckland
