A new report shows how ubiquitous unhealthy foods are, how aggressively they are promoted, and how hard it is to access healthy foods in places people spend time.
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Many food and beverage companies are not doing enough to positively shape diets in Canada, while positive examples show that public health commitments are achievable.
The size of food images on product packaging plays a key role in exacerbating diet-related illnesses and obesity.
Researchers have unearthed a ‘biological switch’ which could boost crop yield worldwide.
Research shows that children attending schools with low-quality food environments, in poorer neighborhoods, gain more central body fat – putting them at risk of obesity and cardiometabolic disease.
Urban consumers in Africa are rapidly growing and they are demanding high quality, pesticide free food.
Apart from treating the ill and injured, public hospitals are workplaces that – positively or negatively – affect the health and well-being of their employees. Ensuring easy access to healthy food and…
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Canada Research Chair in Healthy Food Policy, Assistant Professor in Nutrition, Université Laval
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Canada Research Chair in Digital Media Use by Children and Its Implications for Promoting Togetherness: An Ecosystemic Approach, Université de Sherbrooke
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Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor in Soil Physics and Director of the Hounsfield Facility, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
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Professor and Head, Discipline of Medicine, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
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Professor of Health Promotion, Dalhousie University