Are low-calorie restaurant menus making us fat?

Depending on our food cravings, the number of items served, and even the time of day, ordering a meal at a restaurant often requires a “narrowing down” decision making process.

How food texture impacts its perceived calorie content

Food is an intimately personal thing; we savor some tastes and despise others. But how does the way we chew and eat our food impact our overall consumption?

Chemicals in food packaging ‘may be harmful to human health’

Many of the synthetic chemicals involved in packaging and storing the food we eat can leak into it, potentially harming our long-term health, say environmental scientists in a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.Although some of these chemicals are regulated, people come into contact with them almost every day through packaged or processed foods.

Thousands of tonnes of saturated fat to be taken out of the nation’s diet, UK

More than one and a half Olympic size swimming pools of saturated fat will be removed from the nation’s diet over the next year as part of a drive to cut the amount of saturated fat in our food…

Peer pressure likely influences food choices at restaurants

If you want to eat healthier when dining out, research recommends surrounding yourself with friends who make healthy food choices. A University of Illinois study showed that when groups of people eat together at a restaurant at which they must state their food choice aloud, they tend to select items from the same menu categories…

‘Traffic-light’ labeling more effective than the standard nutritional labeling available on packaged products

A simple, color-coded system for labeling food items in a hospital cafeteria appears to have increased customer’s attention to the healthiness of their food choices, along with encouraging purchases of the most healthy items…

Healthy diet discourages obesity microbes in gut

When you dine, you are never alone. Trillions of microbial guests, resident in your gut, eat with you.

Scientists put cancer-fighting power back into frozen broccoli

There was bad news, then good news from University of Illinois broccoli researchers this month. In the first study, they learned that frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane, the cancer-fighting phytochemical in fresh broccoli.

Despite The Promises, Children Still Bombarded With Junk Food Ads

Advertising of junk food continues to undermine children’s health despite the food industry’s pledges that they would restrict their marketing activities, according to a systematic review of evidence published today in the scientific journal Obesity Reviews…

Eating Fish While Pregnant May Lower Anxiety Levels

Pregnant women have many choices to make when eating for two.

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