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Beyond Obesity: Western Diet Shown to Make People Unintelligent
06 October 2014 - The Conversation - Who you calling an elephant? Animals have weight issues too
26 September 2014 - HuffPost - Is the NHS Encouraging Obesity Through Unhealthy Food Choices? And What Can We Do??
18 September 2014 - EPOCH TIMES - A Nutritional Approach to Depression
16 September 2014 - BBC News - Sugar intake must be slashed further, say scientists
12 September 2014 - KQED News - Berkeley’s Talking About Sugar — And the Conversation Isn’t Sweet
BBC News - Brain 'can be trained to prefer healthy food'
2 September 2014 - BMJ Blogs - Sally Norton: NHS hospitals—does a spoonful of sugar help the medicine go down?
24 August 2014 - The Guardian - Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison
23 August 2014 - foodconsumer - Palmitate may lead to circadian dysregulation
The balance between acids and host protection in a healthy mouth disrupted by high acidity drinks
‘Not enough people are talking about nutrition and brain function’
FAB Research conference notes: Sugar, fat, food and addiction: New approaches to the public health crisis
31 July 2014 - Medical News Today - Children's food intake decisions influenced by food preparation by parents
23 July 2014 - MedicalXpress - Targeting the brain to treat obesity
The Conversation - You are what you eat: how diet affects mental well-being
19 July 2014 - Michelle's blog - Regulating for health – to nanny or not to nanny
14 July 2014 - BBC news - Dental charity blames bad baby teeth on 'child neglect'
4 July 2014 - MNT - TV gives children a 'bad example' on food
18 June 2014 - The Conversation - Lifestyle diseases make global health promotion more difficult than ever
13 June 2014 - ScienceDaily - How food marketing creates false sense of health
17 June 2014 - BBC - Fried food twice per week limit in school meals
3 June 2014 - Time - How Sugar Went From a Condiment to a Diet Staple
14 May 2014 - The Guardian - Too much sugar, salt and fat: healthy eating still eluding many Britons
11th May 2014 - The Guardian - Sugar is the real enemy, not fat itself, says film targeting obesity
25 April 2014 - Food Navigator - Children's TV viewing habits linked to 'junk food' consumption
Excess sugar consumption leads to a host of diseases
12 April 2014 - The Grocer - Sugar war professor Robert Lustig plans UK lecture tour during DH policy review
10 April 2014 - New study shows how junk food diets prompt laziness
CAPT Joseph Hibbeln, M.D.: Nutritional Armor - Brain and Behavior
14 Feb 2014 - Nutraingredients - Dr Alex Richardson Q&A: Nutritional Lipids for Mood and Behaviour
Pregnant mother's fatty diet may alter baby's brain
9 Jan 2014 - The Guardian - Obesity experts campaign to cut sugar in food by up to 30%
05 January 2015 - The Conversation - Why most food labels are wrong about calories
17 Dec 2013 - University of New South Wales - Junk food can harm memory in a week
Sleep Deprivation Linked To Junk Food Cravings
2 July 2013 - Medscape - Refined carbs may trigger food addiction
26 May 2013 - BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme - Sugar: Pure, White and Deadly?
21 May 2013 - Food Navigator - UK children's foods often higher in fat and sugar, study finds
Omega-3 may minimise damaging effects of junk food on brain: Research review
30 Apr 2013 - BBC Radio 4 - Constant Cravings: Does Food Addiction Exist?
25 March 2013 - FoodNavigator - 'Mindless eating' in Britain spells opportunity for industry, says National Obesity Forum
Sugar is the new tobacco
18 Feb 2013 - The Guardian - Obesity crisis: doctors demand soft drink tax and healthier hospital food
BBC News - Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say doctors
Is the “there is no such thing as bad foods, only bad diets” argument helpful?
20 Jan 2013 - BBC News - How addictive is sugar?
BMJ - Sugar and the Heart - Old Ideas Revisited
13 Jan 2013 - The Telegraph - We're eating our way to disaster
Western diet may cause brain impairment and neurodegenerative conditions, say researchers