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Consumers tend to think that healthy foods have to cost more than their less nutritional counterparts. New psychological research looks at how pervasive this is.
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?
Potatoes are more nutrient-dense than many other staple foods in South Africa including maize meal, rice, bread and pasta.
Residents in Nairobi’s urban slums are opting for fast food rather than the healthy alternatives, which is increasing their risk of developing diabetes.
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Millennium Promise Fellow and Senior Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Researcher & Post-doc in Human Nutrition, University of Pretoria
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Professor, DSI/NRF/NDP SARChI Chair in Nutrition and Food Security and Director ARUA CoE Food Security, University of Pretoria
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Berry Chair of New Technologies in Marketing and Professor of Marketing, The Ohio State University
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Researcher and post-doctoral fellow in human nutrition, University of Pretoria
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Visiting research fellow, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Marketing, Vanderbilt University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing, University of Georgia
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Assistant Researcher at UC Davis and World Agroforestry Centre, University of California, Davis
