The festive season provides great motivation to make lifestyle changes around eating habits.
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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.
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.
Our study found that people who prepared their own food or watched their food being made ate more on average.
If dietary guidelines are going to work, they need to be more specific about what ‘variety’ means.
All too often the medical community ‘fat-shames’ patients trying to lose weight, when in fact obesity and overweight are complicated medical issues.
The human body is built to adapt to the sudden stress of overeating.
It’s incredibly difficult to will away bad habits. But two simple strategies can make things easier.
Your body doesn’t know when you’ve overeaten, but exercise can help.
What you remember of your last meal affects when and how much you eat next time around. Neuroscientists have now identified neurons in the brain’s hippocampus that are crucial to this process.
This is what happens when emotions eat you up.
First study to look at binge eating during pregnancy and the long-term outcome for mother and child.
Shakespeare wrote of the ‘seven ages of man’, and our appetite for food changes as we age too – with implications for our health.
Understanding the psychology behind why we overeat can help us to consume less.
The color scheme, the music, even the weight of the servers – all can play a role in getting customers to spend money.
We usually consume about three times the necessary daily calories over the Christmas period.
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
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Provost Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Business, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Metabolism and Statistics, University of Bath
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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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Reader in Social Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor, University of Cologne
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Formerly Reader in Nutrition and Metabolism, Leeds Beckett University
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Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University
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PhD Candidate, University of Sussex
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Research associate, University of Cologne
