The Government is being urged to launch an urgent mass public messaging campaign promoting how healthy eating can boost the body’s immune system against the threat of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, by three leading food specialists. Professors Tim Lang of City, University of London, Erik Millstone of the University of Sussex Business School and Terry […]
Social media users are more likely to eat fruit and veg—or snack on junk food—if they think their friends do the same, a new study has found. The research, by Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences, found that study participants ate an extra fifth of a portion of fruit and vegetables themselves for […]
British children’s lunches are just as unhealthy as they were a decade ago with fewer than 2% getting a balanced pack-up from their parents Analysis shows 1.6% of eight and nine-year-olds have balanced packed lunches Amount of sugar in lunch boxes has fallen, but so too has vitamins and minerals Despite school dinner reforms in […]
Forager-horticulturalist children in the Amazon rainforest do not spend more calories in their everyday lives than children in the United States, but they do spend calories differently. That finding provides clues for understanding and reversing global trends in obesity and poor metabolic health, according to a Baylor University researcher in a study published in Science […]
