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Food Fights: Are Vegan Diets Healthier for the Brain?
26 December 2017 - The Conversation - Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?
28 November 2017 - BBC News - Children 'bombarded by junk food' ads on family shows
13 November 2017 - MedicalXpress - Increased taxes on high fat and high sugar foods will help improve children's diets
The long, strange history of dieting fads
5 November 2017 - MedicalXpress - The fight against obesity: To tax or not to tax?
26 October 2017 - Science Daily - Junk food almost twice as distracting as healthy food
17 October 2017 - The Conversation - This is why child obesity rates have soared
Sugar in the diet may increase risks of opioid addiction
Call for “monumental” rethink of food systems that “make people sick”
25 September 2017 - Science Daily - Maternal diet could affect kids' brain reward circuitry
7 September 2017 - The Guardian - Supersize us: upselling is fuelling the obesity epidemic, warns report
4 September 2017 - MedicalXpress - 1 in 5 children in the U.S. enter school overweight or obese, researchers find
22 August 2017 - MedicalXpress - Brain's self-regulation in teens at risk for obesity
26 May 2017 - MedicalXpress - Fat nation - the rise and fall of obesity on the political agenda
BBC - How food can improve your mental health
New WHO study on health and well-being of Europe’s youth reveals that obesity continues to rise
1 May 2017 - MedicalXpress - U.S. toddlers eat more french fries than vegetables
25 April 2017 - The Conversation - â€˜Junk food’ and the consumer blame game
22 February 2017 - British Medical Journal - Time for the UK to commit to tackling child obesity
21 February 2017 - DailyMail - Why IS chocolate so impossible to resist? TV doctor reveals the reasons why certain foods can make you addicted
21 February 2017 - MedicalXpress - UK government plan to prevent child obesity is 'severely limited,' argue experts
20 February 2017 - Eurekalert - Only one-third of parents think they are doing a good job helping kids eat healthy
14 February 2017 - MedicalXpress - 'Fat taxes' could save billons in healthcare costs: study
18 January 2017 - Nutraingredients - Energy drink consumption associated with mental health problems for teens
Is sugar the world's most popular drug?
8 December 2016 - Knowridge - Junk food causes similar high blood sugar levels as type 2 diabetes
22 December 2016 - The Conversation - How reliable is the Eatwell Guide, the official chart of what foods you should be eating?
1 December 2016 - BBC - 'Diet is global food policy's elephant in the room'
10 October 2016 - Medicalxpress - Fast-food calorie labeling unlikely to encourage healthy eating
The Influence of Diet on ADHD
29 September 2016 - UK Government Policy Paper - Childhood obesity plan: PHE's role in implementation
28 August 2016 - The Conversation - Dropping the plan to ban junk food ads in prime time was a bad move - the UK will regret it
Unhealthy diet during pregnancy could be linked to ADHD
14 June 2016 - BBC News - Obesity boom 'fuelling rise in malnutrition'
New Study Finds 43% of Products Marketed to Kids are Artificially Dyed With Links to Behavioral Problems Causing Concern
22 March 2016 - The Conversation - What the world can learn from Mexico’s tax on sugar-sweetened drinks
Why Most People Fail to 'Get the Fats Right' - and How You can do Better!
Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison
Trans Fat May Impair Memory
16 June 2015 - BBC News - US orders ban on 'unsafe' trans-fats
27 May 2015 - Eurekalert - 'Do' is better than 'don't' when it comes to eating better
21 May 2015 - ScienceDaily - Obese teens' brains unusually susceptible to food commercials, study finds
20 May 2015 - The Conversation - How eating different brands of the same food could be encouraging you to eat more
Can food improve your exam performance?
11 May 2015 - BBC Radio 4 - Gut microbes important for dietary health
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
Sugar Provides Better Stress Relief Than Aspartame; Why We Eat Junk Food When We're Stressed

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