Health Insight: What’s the best diet for healthy sleep? A nutritional epidemiologist explains what food choices will help you get more restful z’s
Nutritional epidemiologist ERICA JANSEN provides some tips, in an article first published on The Conversation, for a good night’s sleep…
Health Insight: How to make your diet more sustainable, healthy or cheap – without giving up nutrients
Australian researcher BRAD RIDOUTT – in an article first published on The Conversation – looks at how to ensure balance in dietary choices…
Health Insight: Here’s why those last few pounds can be hardest to lose – according to science
In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER ROGERS, professor of biological psychology at the University of Bristol, looks at what science tells us about weight loss…
Diet for healthy people, healthy planet too costly for some
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation At least one in five people could not afford science’s ‘ideal diet’ designed to feed 10 billion people without hurting the planet, according to a study published on Friday. The EAT-Lancet report made headlines when it was unveiled in January because it proposed the first scientific targets for both a healthy […]
Plenty more fish in the sea? Not for the poor and hungry, researchers say
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation Swapping fish for meat to help combat climate change risks exacerbating hunger in Africa, from where fish is increasingly exported to wealthy nations instead of providing key vitamins to malnourished local people, experts warned on Wednesday. Some consumers in rich countries are shunning meat in favour of other forms of protein, including […]
‘Nobel for food’ winner tells ailing world to eat more vegetables
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation With poor diet now topping smoking as a health hazard, the world must put good nutrition over empty calories, especially in emerging Asian economies, according to the winner of a prestigious global prize dubbed the ‘Nobel for food’. Seed breeder Simon Groot – an octogenarian whose family has cultivated seeds for hundreds […]
HEALTH INSIGHT: HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF – ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
In an article first published on The Conversation, KEVIN DEIGHTON, reader in nutrition and metabolism at Leeds Beckett University in the UK, looks at what science tells us when it comes to losing weight…
How forgotten local plants could ease malnutrition in East Timor
Thomson Reuters Foundation The Australian owners of a restaurant in East Timor are hoping to use their passion for the local cuisine to combat malnutrition in the tiny South-East Asian nation. East Timor has Asia’s worst rates of child malnutrition, with more than 50 per cent of children suffering from stunting – a condition that […]
HEALTH INSIGHT: CHRISTMAS VERSUS KILOJOULES – HOW TO FOCUS MORE ON CELEBRATION AND LESS ON THE FOOD
In an article first published on The Conversation, CLARE COLLINS, of the University of Newcastle in Australia, provides some tips for avoiding the excess calories this Christmas…
HEALTH INSIGHT: THE BEST FOODS TO EAT FOR A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
UK dietician SOPHIE MEDLIN, in an article first published on The Conversation, recommends her top foods for a peaceful sleep…