Only about a third of infant foods in NZ, and a quarter in Australia, meet WHO nutritional recommendations. But many are packaged to create a ‘halo’ of health.
- Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
The mixed messages around children, food and weight - not to mention sophisticated marketing - can leave parents perplexed. But there are ways to wade through it all and find healthy choices.
Five out of five experts said we shouldn’t reward kids with food. But for very different reasons.
Three in five Australian adults get sucked in by promotions and specials on junk food and sugary drinks at the supermarket, research released today shows.
It’s time for Australia to follow the UK’s lead and increase the price of sugary drinks.
Many of us enter a new year reflecting on where we have been and our plans for the future. For some, this will mean acknowledging that a couple more kilos have crept on over the past year.
It’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house – food advertisers can make and break the rules as they like.
Over the past three decades, the Australasia region has outpaced other regions of the world with the largest absolute increase in adult obesity. Poor diet and high body mass index have overtaken tobacco…
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