No wonder we’re addicted to junk food. Neuroscience shows food packaging affects our enjoyment of these foods, and plays on the same brain processes as hard drug addiction.
Articles on Junk food advertising
Displaying 21 - 40 of 49 articles
Junk food versus healthy food – why are we always blaming consumers for ‘bad’ food choices?
Being able to buy processed “food-like” products is often seen as a mark of personal and material success. Little attention is paid to having a healthy diet.
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.
The food industry says it wants to help in the fight against obesity – but it needs regulation.
Many people believe eating healthily is expensive – and more costly than buying junk food. But our new research shows this isn’t the case.
Junk food adverts need to be banned near schools and nurseries – our children’s lives depend upon it.
People overeat. And people don’t always make the healthiest food choices. That much is clear. But who is to blame for overeating and poor food choices?
It’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house – food advertisers can make and break the rules as they like.
Given the heightened risk of harm, governments should ban the sale of energy drinks to anyone under the age of 18 years old.
Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed…
We all know obesity is a common, serious, and costly health issue. But while government action has stalled and the debate rages on about how best to combat this growing public health disaster, junk food…
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…
On Saturday night, just hours before the latest quarter-finals of the World Cup, viewers watching SBS World News were exposed to over two and a half minutes of marketing for Coca-Cola. And that’s not even…
Supermarkets are an essential part of modern living – open almost all the time, selling almost everything, and selling it cheap. Nowhere is this more true than in Australia. Coles and Woolworths, our two…
Advergaming is a relatively recent approach to advertising that overcomes many of the limitations of traditional advertising. But advergames are increasingly being used by fast food companies to target…
The government wants to improve children’s diets by banning packed lunches and barring children from leaving school at lunchtime to prevent them from buying unhealthy food. School lunches are healthier…
Boys are more likely to choose unhealthy foods with on-pack endorsements by sports stars than those without, a new study of primary school-aged children has found. The Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre…
The Australian Football League (AFL) and Cricket Australia have refused to sell advertising space to a Tasmanian man trying to raise awareness of the impact of junk food and alcohol advertising linked…
Merely two months into the new year and we have already seen a plethora of local and international efforts aimed at curbing what appears to be the inexorable rise of obesity. Some of these initiatives…
Top contributors
-
Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
-
Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong
-
Professor of Public Health, Deakin University
-
Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University
-
ARC Future Fellow and Sydney Horizon Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
-
Director of Cancer Programs, Cancer Council NSW; PhD Candidate in Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor in Translational Medicine, University of Exeter
-
Visiting Fellow at Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor, Public Health Policy, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Lecturer, UNSW
-
Professor, Centre for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn
-
Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
-
Professor of Law, University of Liverpool