Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish for themselves to serve as backup for the kids too.
Making a few simple eco-friendly food choices can be healthy and cost-effective too.
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From replacing meat with pulses to eating more eggs, these top tips will reduce the environmental impact of your diet while improving the nutritional value and cutting costs.
Indonesians are consuming more and more processed foods, including sugary drinks, salty snacks, junk food, and unhealthy fats. These changes take a toll on people’s health, as well as the environment…
Nearly two-thirds of suburbs in one major part of Sydney have no food stores at all. And in those that do, unhealthy food outlets outnumber healthy ones by more than six to one.
We developed a healthy lunchbox program. Here, we provide parents with ideas for swapping unhealthy foods kids might like to healthier ones comparable on cost, taste, texture and preparation time.
Ultra-processed foods and sugary drinks contribute to rising rates of obesity.
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Conflicting injunctions, shaped locally, constantly reinvented: food in the cities of the global south escapes the narrative of Western standardisation.
Food is fuel for the human body.
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The Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020 debated a host of critical issues but never brought up the equally important challenge of Americans’ food security.
It’s not that people in poorer countries want to eat unhealthily - but cost is a huge factor.
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Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The fact that relative food prices differ so markedly and so systematically provides a very strong rationale for nutrition-focused food policies.
You’re not imagining it. Our bodies really do crave macaroni cheese and other comfort foods as the temperature drops. Here’s why.
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It’s not enough to simply promote healthy eating and exercise without considering the very real environmental and structural constraints present in South Africa.
Poorer South Africans are bombarded with fast food.
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Are you a meticulous lunch planner, or do you decide what’s for lunch after those first pangs of hunger strike after midday? If you’re in the second camp, it might be time to change.
Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand