Digestion produces heat, drinks can affect hunger and children’s intake naturally varies. Here’s what parents need to know.
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Struggling to get children to drink enough in hot weather? Water-rich foods can help top up their fluid intake alongside regular drinks.
Strategies to reduce harmful thoughts about food that are persistent, intrusive and distressing can help people better cope with “food noise.”
Alcohol stimulates a hunger for protein. And if it’s not satisfied, it persists.
Your body adjusts your food intake and activity to maintain a balanced weight and avoid starvation. Researchers have proposed several theories explaining how this works.
When we change our diet, we disrupt our appetite hormones. Here’s how it works – and how small changes to our diet can help us feel fuller for longer.
But it may have an indirect effect on weight loss – especially if you swap it for the high-calorie drinks you normally have.
Do you feel the need to clean your plate? Does a bowl of salty chips seem completely irresistible? Understanding your ‘eating personality’ could stop you eating or drinking too much these holidays.
Semaglutide works by controlling appetite.
This latest fad diet draws many parallels with other intermittent fasting-type diets.
A lack of sleep increases appetite, makes us more likely to eat unhealthy foods, and even affects how body fat is lost while dieting.
Researchers are only beginning to understand the relationship eating time and circadian rhythm have on our body weight.
People ate on average 142 calories more after swimming than they did on their rest day.
Backyard Easter egg hunts can be a joy for all the family and a great way to lift the spirits in isolation. They can also provide insight into how different children manage treat foods.
New research has discovered brain receptors that sense heat also play a hand in appetite.
Kim Kardashian West comes under fire for promoting an appetite-suppressing lollipop on social media.
Women shouldn’t be disheartened by the latest finding that exercise doesn’t lead to weight loss in the first month or two. There are other reasons to persist.
If New Year’s resolutions have you in an abstemious mindset when it comes to enjoyment these days, consider a pleasure recalibration based on ‘l'éducation du gout.’
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Associate Professor of Medical Education, University of Nottingham; University of Lincoln
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Senior Lecturer, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, Flinders University
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Director of the Health Exercise and Rehabilitation Group, Bangor University
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Professor of Physical Activity, Exercise and Health, Coventry University
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Personal Chair in Nutrition, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
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Principal Lecturer in Sport Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Psychobiology, University of Leeds
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Senior Research Associate in Exercise Metabolism, Loughborough University
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Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Surrey
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
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Professor of Biological Psychology, University of Leeds
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Honorary Research Fellow, Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Loughborough University