Mindful eating can help to reduce emotional eating and promotes the consumption of smaller portions and fewer calories.
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Your body doesn’t know when you’ve overeaten, but exercise can help.
What you remember of your last meal affects when and how much you eat next time around. Neuroscientists have now identified neurons in the brain’s hippocampus that are crucial to this process.
In the UK the equivalent of four million Christmas dinners are wasted every year.
Just the act of eating each meal places a large degree of physiological stress on the immune system.
This is what happens when emotions eat you up.
An audio version of an in depth article about the 18th century Enlightenment thinkers who promoted the potato as a way to build a healthy and productive society.
Time to put calories on the menu.
Biofortification – enhancing the micronutrient concentration of staple crops – offers a sustainable solution to hidden hunger.
Huge hunks of meat and energy inefficient cooking methods make the Sunday roast a particularly unsustainable meal.
Taking a power nap on a night shift can leave you feeling groggy. And eating a large meal can reduce your alertness. So, what’s a tired shift worker to do to make it through the night?
The color scheme, the music, even the weight of the servers – all can play a role in getting customers to spend money.
Everything you need to know about the humble spud.
Restaurants can open the ‘Doors of Perception’, too.
Feeding Melbourne generates over 900,000 tonnes of edible food waste every year, enough to feed more than 2 million people.
Eating cows and sheep is unsustainable. Here are some better alternatives.
Eating more frozen food could help us reduce waste, beat the obesity epidemic and have more money in our pockets – what’s not to like.
Top contributors
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Professor of Diet and Population Health, University of Oxford
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Swansea University
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Sleep Researcher, Appleton Institute, HealthWise Research Group, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Associate Director of the Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Reader in Social Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Fellow, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University
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Research Fellow: Food and Urban Systems, University of Helsinki
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Nutrition, University of Lancashire
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research, University of Cambridge
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Research Professor and Director of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, Adelaide University