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Sugar taxes may not prevent obesity and associated conditions overnight, but they can be part of the solution.
Obesity crisis: pizza, pastries, chips, donuts, cookies, hot dogs, and burgers – just your average school lunch.
People with obesity earn less and have a harder time finding work.
Most people assume the only reason to eat healthy foods is to stay slim. But being slim doesn’t mean you’re healthy, and doesn’t mean it’s OK to eat junk.
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.
Climate change will make it harder to eat healthily.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government has introduced a Healthy Weight Action Plan aimed at curbing the number of obese people in the territory. As its name suggests, the plan seeks to create…
Advergaming is a relatively recent approach to advertising that overcomes many of the limitations of traditional advertising. But advergames are increasingly being used by fast food companies to target…
Disadvantaged mothers with poor health are more likely to have sick children than mothers in good health. The study looked…
Using cash and not credit cards to buy groceries leads to lower consumption of junk food, according to US researchers. Consumers…
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