The health impacts of eating too many ultra-processed foods are well known. Not only are ultra-processed foods high in sugar, salt, and fats, they have other chemicals and properties that contribute to poor health outcomes. Despite this, most dietary guidelines from across the world do not discuss the harms of ultra-processed foods.
After a long, hard day - taking care of the kids, going to work or school, keeping up the house - would you rather sit down for a snack or to a large, satisfying meal? When we eat, our bodies receive necessary fuel, but food does more than provide nutrients. Food is a natural reward that makes us feel good, and there is a greater variety of foods available now than ever before. However, stress from day-to-day life and internal stressors interact with what we choose to eat. Within this context, we can explore how acute or chronic stress alter food intake behaviours that may contribute to the increasing prevalence of obesity worldwide.
The pressure is on to address the two major crises affecting the future of human existence, including the increasing prevalence of diet-related chronic disease – the leading contributor to the global burden of disease – and the compromising of our ecosystems and climate crisis as a result of human activity.
The Paper of the Month for October is ‘Potato consumption is not associated with elevated cardiometabolic risk in adolescent girls‘ from the British Journal of Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: Mutual aid organisations and their role in reducing food insecurity in Chicago’s urban communities during COVID-19.…
The rise of the vegan lifestyle Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: Pattern analysis of vegan eating reveals healthy and unhealthy patterns within the vegan diet.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: The risk to child nutrition during and after COVID-19 pandemic: what to expect and how to respond.…
Direct-to-consumer messages on company websites promote benefits of formula feeding, position it as superior to breastmilk An analysis of websites for baby formula manufacturers finds that their messages and images discourage breastfeeding while touting the benefits of formula, despite public health efforts to support breastfeeding and informed choice.…
The Paper of the Month for September is ‘Monitoring food digestion with magnetic resonance techniques‘ from the Proceedings of Nutrition Society and is free to access for 1 month.…
Ultra-processed foods are industrial formulations of processed food substances (like oils, fats, sugars, starch, protein isolates) that contain little or no whole food and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers and other cosmetic additives. These characteristics in addition to their low-cost, convenience and aggressive marketing make them very appealing to eat. Almost irresistible.
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
New research reveals that a significant number of babies are not being fed in accordance with New Zealand’s infant feeding guidelines and this puts them at greater risk for childhood obesity.…
Fast-food is sold in restaurants and snack bars as a quick meal or to be taken out, and often consists of low-nutrient and energy-dense foods. Consequently, fast-food consumers tend to have higher intakes of energy, fat, saturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, sugar and sodium, as well as lower intakes of fibre, macronutrients and vitamins. This means that regular fast-food consumers have a higher risk of multiple physical and mental health complications. Worryingly, among adolescents the consumption of fast food is on the rise across the globe.
The challenges in improving nations’ diets persist. As we try to overcome these, an area that is gaining traction is nudging. But can nudge-based interventions change food choice, and enable better decisions when it comes to choosing what to eat? And actually, how effective are they in real-world settings?
The Paper of the Month for April is ‘The Role of Dietary Nitrate and the Oral Microbiome on Blood Pressure and Vascular tone’ and is free to access for 1 month.…
The Paper of the Month for March 2021 is ‘Diet quality improvement and 30-year population health and economic outcomes: a microsimulation study’ from Public Health Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
Though multiple national health organizations recommend against giving toddler milk – a nutrient-fortified drink for children ages 12 months to 3 years that often contains added sugars – to young children, a new study suggests Latino families may be at particularly high risk for purchasing the product.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: The role of income and neighbourhood poverty in the association between the 2009 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food package change and child obesity among WIC-participating children in Los Angeles County, 2003–2016.…
The Paper of the Month for February 2021 is ‘Is ergothioneine a ‘longevity vitamin’ limited in the American diet?‘ from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is free to access for 1 month..…
The Paper of the Month for January 2021 is ‘Prevalence Of Malnutrition In Covid-19 Inpatients: The Nutricov Study’ from the British Journal of Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
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