Food

Taking the diet out of 'diet' books

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Children with ARFID avoid specific colours, textures, tastes or smells of foods.

The children who take picky eating to the extreme

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Cutting out gluten or cutting out other additives?

Why the 'gluten-free movement' is less of a fad than we thought

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Taking the diet out of 'diet' books

Diets are ineffective long-term. Thankfully, some experts are taking the diet out of 'diet' books.

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The children who take picky eating to the extreme

Children with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder avoid specific colours, textures, tastes or smells of foods, or are afraid of choking or vomiting.

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Why the 'gluten-free movement' is less of a fad than we thought

Amy Neiwirth is a Columbus-based artist who makes tiny clay models of popular foods: pizzas, cakes, waffles, even retro TV dinners.

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What happens when parents focus too much on getting kids to eat?

I went overboard policing my kids' diets. Here's why I changed my ways.

I was the food police, imagining that if I could control the food he and my kids ate, I could keep us all healthy and safe.

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Children may be swayed towards buying cheaper, unhealthy food at the school canteen.

Why kids are buying cheap, unhealthy snacks

The first comprehensive study of pricing at school canteens in NSW found unhealthy snacks, hot food and drinks are significantly cheaper than healthy options.

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Pleasure is good: How French children are taught to eat well

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions people make is to lose weight by dieting. The idea is that restricting the pleasures of tasty foods will lead to greater fitness and a finer physique. But if these rewards are so valuable, why is it so hard for us to stick to our resolution? Maybe the problem is that when we try to lose weight, we also lose the pleasure of eating.