It’s not clear how health claims could be substantiated, enforced or understood, but there are other ways to encourage healthy food choices.
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B.C. recently began taxing sugary drinks. Examples from Europe show the scientific basis for taxing unhealthy foods may have little impact on whether these taxes are adopted or remain in place.
Globally, experts are beginning to recognise that focusing on one aspect of food overlooks the trade-offs or sacrifices people make.
During the pandemic, Australians have been using food delivery apps more than ever. We’ve assessed how healthy the options available to us are — and the news isn’t good.
Our new research found some deals provided an astonishing 90% of the average recommended daily energy intake for adults.
The pandemic changed people’s dining-out experience, with takeout becoming more common. But since dining out became fashionable in the 18th century, how and where people go to eat has been evolving.
Ghanaian consumption patterns towards fast food are evolving.
Conflicting injunctions, shaped locally, constantly reinvented: food in the cities of the global south escapes the narrative of Western standardisation.
Launched in Brisbane in 1985, the final 9 stores will close this Sunday. Australia’s tastes have changed.
The food and beverage industry is increasingly involved in the policymaking process.
Fast-food restaurants can be comforting places, but when they saturate communities, they crowd out healthy food sources and leave residents less nourished.
Everyone knows it’s hard to stop eating potato chips or chocolate chip cookies. New research shows why: Certain combinations of fat, sodium, sugar or carbohydrates make them irresistible.
Australian supermarkets and fast food chains will soon be stocking a homegrown meat alternative that tastes and feels like meat and even sizzles on the barbecue.
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It's much easier for people to access fatty, salty food than it is to find healthier options.
While thought of as an unpretentious fast-food dish, the doner kebab is a symbol of the social, political and identity issues facing European society today.
As more and more children embrace meat-free diets, using ‘Chicken Run’ to promote burgers may no longer work for fast food chains.
The link that Ronald McDonald House creates between itself and sick children is not just positive, it is sacrosanct.
Food safety issues are at heart political.
With obesity affecting so many students, it’s better to give them cheap, appealing food and drink choices at school.
Living near lots of fast-food outlets doesn’t automatically encourage weight gain in your neighbourhood, but coupled with a lack of exercise facilities, it just might.
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