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Sweetened fruit drinks could be linked to childhood asthma
08 April 2015 - MNT - Critical windows to turn away junk food craving
07 April 2015 - MedicalXpress - Are current dietary guidelines for sodium and potassium reasonable?
29 March 2015 - Sydney Morning Herald - Jamie Oliver whips up support for junk food tax and right recipe for education
Children and energy drinks comprise a growing public health crisis
23 March 2015 - BBC Newsround - Half of kids don't eat veg each day
19 March 2015 - Nutraingredients - Nutrient profiling key to public health policies
19 March 2015 - BBC ONE - The Truth About Sugar
'Sugar papers' reveal industry role in 1970s dental program
28 February 2015 - EurekAlert - Psychology of food choice: Challenging the status quo
BBC News - Energy drinks 'should be banned' for under-16s
Widely used food additive promotes colitis, obesity and metabolic syndrome, research shows
24 February 2015 - The Conversation - Here’s a better alternative to food banks – subsidised national kitchens
24 February 2015 - EurekAlert - Too many food choices exacerbate the battle against obesity, researchers find
20 February 2015 - Foodnavigator - WHO unveils nutrient profiling to restrict marketing to kids
Want pizza, chocolate, French fries? Highly processed foods linked to addictive eating
19 February 2015 - NewsWise - Diet Quality Declines Worldwide, but with Major Differences Across Countries
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
13 February 2015 - MNT - Healthy diet, exercise 'not enough to treat obesity,' say experts
12 February 2015 - BBC News - Row over sugar firms' links to scientists
Sugar: spinning a web of influence
A combination of early-life risk factors 'could quadruple the risk of childhood obesity'
02 March 2015 - BBC Radio 4 - The 'Clean Label' Question
27 January 2015 - MNT - UK parents hounded by their kids to buy junk food they see on TV - BHF calls for ban on junk food ads before 9pm
The Conversation - Fat and sugar-heavy diet harms your brain – and makes you keep on eating
07 January 2015 - MNT - After the new year, shoppers make healthier purchases but don't cut the regular less-healthy ones
04 January 2015 - Medical Daily - Obese People Sometimes Protected Against Diabetes, Heart Disease Due To Lack Of Metabolic Problems
31 December 2014 - Science Daily - Little change seen in fast food portion size, product formulation between 1996 and 2013
30 December 2014 - MNT - Year of birth has an influence on genetic risk for obesity, study finds
Fast-food consumption in children linked to poorer academic outcomes
High-fat (and high-sugar) diet, obesity during pregnancy harms stem cells in developing fetus
15 December 2015 - Leeds Beckett University - Study reveals no link between food environment and childhood obesity
Micronutrient insufficiencies: ‘The DGAC is turning a blind eye to this problem because they are preaching an ideal’
08 December 2014 - MedicalXpress - Scientists identify hormone that reduces calorie burning, contributes to obesity
03 December 2014 - The Conversation - Why food firms should be told what – and what not – to put in their products
01 December 2014 - MedicalXpress - Diabetes in midlife linked to significant cognitive decline 20 years later
28 November 2014 - Medical News Today - Appropriate reference amounts are important for the effective use of nutrition labelling information, study reveals
27 November 2014 - The Conversation - Time for business to deal with its costly sugar problem
25 November 2014 - The Conversation - Smoking, drinking and eating: public health should not be all about the individual
24 November 2014 - Science Daily - Obese children burdened by more than weight
19 November 2014 - The Conversation - Economic gloom makes humans stockpile food like animals hoarding for winter
Trans fat consumption is linked to diminished memory in working-aged adults
17 November 2014 - Melrose - The link between diabetes and Alzheimer's
12 November 2014 - EWG - EWG’S DIRTY DOZEN GUIDE TO FOOD ADDITIVES: GENERALLY RECOGNIZED AS SAFE – BUT IS IT?
12 November 2014 - Medical News Today -Toxic mix of fast-food outlets in inner city neighbourhoods fuelling diabetes and obesity epidemic
“Darwin, Diet, Disease, and Dollars,” - how the costs of excess sugar have overwhelmed the US healthcare system
27 October 2014 - Science Daily - People with mental health disorders twice as likely to have heart disease or stroke
Children know family budgets dictate how healthy their food is
14 October 2014 - Nutraingredients - Food industry must slash sugar – not just tinker