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27 Oct 2015 - New York Times - Cutting Sugar Improves Children's Health in Just 10 Days
27 Aug 2015 - FoodNavigator - Stop counting calories and start promoting nutritional value, urge researchers
Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison
27 May 2015 - Eurekalert - 'Do' is better than 'don't' when it comes to eating better
21 May 2015 - Huffpost - Mindful Eating, ADHD and Nutrition
21 May 2015 - ScienceDaily - Obese teens' brains unusually susceptible to food commercials, study finds
20 May 2015 - Medical Daily - Skipping Meals Promotes Belly Fat Storage, Increases Risk For Insulin Resistance
20 May 2015 - The Conversation - How eating different brands of the same food could be encouraging you to eat more
Omega-3 may help depression caused by certain types of inflammation
Researchers examine how the brain and body respond to glucose and fructose
Stressed Out Kids More Likely To Overeat; How Parents Train Their Kids In Emotional Eating
30 April 2015 - ScienceDaily - Substantial benefits for health, environment through realistic changes to UK diets
28 April 2015 - BBC News - 'Two phases' of childhood obesity suggested
Early Exposure to Antibiotics Linked With Obesity
25 April 2015 - Clinical Advisor - Exercise won't make up for poor diet
Omega-3-supplemented formula promotes growth (but not overweight or obesity) in children: Study
14 April 2015 - EurekAlert - Five days of eating fatty foods can alter how your body's muscle processes food
08 April 2015 - MNT - Critical windows to turn away junk food craving
01 April 2015 - ScienceDaily - Dangers of adolescent energy drink consumption for the heart: Cardiologists urge physicians, parents, educators to monitor adolescents' energy drink consumption more closely
Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
30 March 2015 - The Conversation - Eight sneaky tricks to get your children to eat healthy food
29 March 2015 - Sydney Morning Herald - Jamie Oliver whips up support for junk food tax and right recipe for education
24 March 2015 - MNT - Bringing chefs into school kitchens proves effective in randomized trial for healthy eating
23 March 2015 - BBC Newsround - Half of kids don't eat veg each day
22 March 2015 - ScienceDaily - Special microbes make anti-obesity molecule in the gut
19 March 2015 - BBC ONE - The Truth About Sugar
19 March 2015 - Nutraingredients - Nutrient profiling key to public health policies
17 March 2015 - EurekAlert - New study: Food TV a recipe for weight gain
17 March 2015 - Live Science - Diet Soda Linked to Increased Belly Fat in Older Adults
12 March 2015 - The Guardian - Tax on sugary drinks could save NHS £15m a year, claims study
02 March 2015 - MedicalXpress - Soft drink tax could improve health of the nation
28 February 2015 - EurekAlert - Psychology of food choice: Challenging the status quo
26 February 2015 - BBC News - Energy drinks 'should be banned' for under-16s
26 February 2015 - Foodnavigator - UK sugar industry sales drop by 14%
Widely used food additive promotes colitis, obesity and metabolic syndrome, research shows
24 February 2015 - Huffingtonpost - Diet May Be As Important To Mental Health As It Is To Physical Health
24 February 2015 - The Conversation - Here’s a better alternative to food banks – subsidised national kitchens
24 February 2015 - ScienceDaily - Patients with mental illness less likely to receive diet, exercise advice
23 February 2015 - ScienceDaily - Vitamin D deficiency linked more closely to diabetes than obesity
Want pizza, chocolate, French fries? Highly processed foods linked to addictive eating
20 February 2015 - Foodnavigator - WHO unveils nutrient profiling to restrict marketing to kids
19 February 2015 - NewsWise - Diet Quality Declines Worldwide, but with Major Differences Across Countries
19 February 2015 - EurekAlert - New study helps explain links between sleep loss and diabetes
18 February 2015 - ScienceDaily - Obesity series exposes 'unacceptably slow' progress in tackling soaring global obesity rates over last decade
18 Feb 2015 - The Conversation - Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar for Lent
17 February 2015 - MNT - Eat more fiber to boost weight loss, study suggests
Cereal offenders: why do sugar levels keep rising in our breakfast choices?
16 February 2015 - FoodAct!ve - New campaign takes the fight to sugary drinks companies
13 February 2015 - MNT - Healthy diet, exercise 'not enough to treat obesity,' say experts
09 February 2015 - Nutraingredients - The chilli diet? Fresh research backs capsaicin to battle obesity