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18 Feb 2015 - The Conversation - Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar for Lent
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
12 February 2015 - BBC News - Row over sugar firms' links to scientists
Brain activity can predict increased fat intake following sleep deprivation
Sugar: spinning a web of influence
Historic US and UK dietary advice on fats 'should not have been introduced'
06 February 2015 - The Conversation - Food fight: is business trying to game the five-a-day system?
02 February 2015 - The Conversation - Health Check: how to work out how much food you should eat
American Academy of Pediatrics - Many Pre-Packaged Toddler Meals and Snack Foods Contain Too Much Salt or Sugar
02 March 2015 - BBC Radio 4 - The 'Clean Label' Question
29 January 2015 - Medical News Today - Added fructose is a principal driver of type 2 diabetes
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
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
16 December 2014 - Nutraingredients - The microbes we eat: Study investigates bacteria in different diets
15 December 2015 - Leeds Beckett University - Study reveals no link between food environment and childhood obesity
09 December 2014 - BBC News - Ready meals may count towards five a day
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
Trans fat consumption is linked to diminished memory in working-aged adults
19 November 2014 - Medical News Today - Home cooking is a main ingredient in a healthier diet
19 November 2014 - The Conversation - Economic gloom makes humans stockpile food like animals hoarding for winter
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
10 November 2014 - New York Times - F.D.A. Must Define, and Enforce, the Term “Natural”
“Darwin, Diet, Disease, and Dollars,” - how the costs of excess sugar have overwhelmed the US healthcare system
27 October 2014 - The Conversation - Official healthy food guide hasn't changed in 20 years: five things that need updating
Children know family budgets dictate how healthy their food is
14 October 2014 - Nutraingredients - Food industry must slash sugar – not just tinker
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