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Many of us don't get an adequate amount of nutrients.
Our "food reward" system is powerful – and is largely behind why we crave unhealthy foods.
Popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram fail to protect children from the marketing tactics of junk food advertisers. This needs to change.
We surveyed over 100 Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and independent stores around Australia and found supermarkets are promoting unhealthy food much more often, and more prominently, than healthier products.
Excessively eating junk foods during adolescence could alter brain development, leading to lasting poor diet habits. But, like a muscle, the brain can be exercised to improve willpower.
The steady flow of politicians and government staffers switching sides to lobby for powerful food, alcohol and gambling companies is a threat to public health.
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.
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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Associate professor, and Associate Director of the Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health Nutrition, 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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Senior lecturer, University of Adelaide
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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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Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Director, Centre for Employee and Consumer Wellbeing; Senior Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
