Tagged: food

Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jun 19, 2019 •

• food,
• Health Star ratings,
• nutrition

Jessica C Lai, Victoria University of Wellington; Alana Harrison, Victoria University of Wellington; Hongzhi Gao, Victoria University of Wellington, and Samuel Becher, Victoria University of Wellington Unhealthy diets cause multiple physical and mental health problems. To help consumers make healthier choices, Australia and New Zealand introduced the voluntary Health Star Rating … Read More

Food Evolution – screening at Queenstown August 31st - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Aug 27, 2018 •

• agriculture,
• food,
• Food evolution movie,
• gene editing,
• genetic engineering,
• genome editing,
• gmo,
• GMOs,
• QMB,
• Queenstown,
• Queenstown Research Week

Food Evolution, the movie, is screening at Queenstown at the end of the month. If you’re in the area, check it out. It’s free: you just have to register at EventBrite. The screening and panel discussion is in the Clancy’s Meeting Room, Level 5, Rydges Lakeland Resort, from 7pm on Fri. 31 August. The film is narrated by well-known science communicator … Read More

How to grow crops on Mars if we are to live on the red planet - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jul 27, 2018 •

• colonisation,
• food,
• Mars

Briardo Llorente, Macquarie University Preparations are already underway for missions that will land humans on Mars in a decade or so. But what would people eat if these missions eventually lead to the permanent colonisation of the red planet? Once (if) humans do make it to Mars, a major challenge for any colony will be to … Read More

A quarter of all US food ends up in the bin - News

Jean Balchin • Apr 24, 2018 •

• consumerism,
• food,
• fruit,
• iets,
• irrigation water,
• New Zealand,
• product,
• US,
• vegetables,
• waste

I don’t know about you, but whenever I think of the United States and food, I imagine a heaped plate of chips, burgers and salad. Perhaps there’s a milkshake beside the plate too. I have a tremendous appetite, but even I know that I can’t eat everything. Huge plates of food leave behind huge piles of waste. US consumers … Read More

Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it? - Public Health Expert

Public Health Expert • Mar 20, 2018 •

• blood pressure,
• BMI,
• cholesterol,
• Diet,
• dietary consultation,
• food,
• fruit,
• glucose level,
• HDL,
• Health,
• intensity,
• intervention,
• lipids,
• Obesity,
• physical activity,
• sodium intake,
• vegetables,
• waist,
• weight

Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Cristina Cleghorn, Dr Linda Cobiac, Dr Anja Mizdrak, Prof Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Prof Tony Blakely In this blog we consider recent literature (particularly reviews) on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of dietary counselling as a health intervention. Most studies suggest that dietary counselling is effective though the benefits are typically modest and short-term. The literature on cost-effectiveness … Read More

Future foods of the dogs - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Mar 19, 2018 •

• biotechnology,
• food,
• lab-grown meat,
• pets

There has been quite a lot of fascination with lab-grown meats, such as the “impossible burger” [Correction: whoops, the impossible burger is, of course, made from plants. Wired has a recent article on the lab-grown kinds]. There is still a long way to go with them to become economically and gustatorily … Read More

When we lose weight, where does it go? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 15, 2018 •

• Carbon dioxide,
• Eating,
• fitness,
• food,
• Health,
• kilograms,
• metabolism,
• Obesity,
• oxygen,
• sleep,
• solids,
• urea,
• water,
• weight loss

Ruben Meerman, UNSW and Andrew Brown, UNSW This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a kilogram of fat actually vanishes off the scales. Even the 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers we surveyed … Read More

Why telling people they could get sick in the future won’t persuade them to be healthy now - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 22, 2018 •

• calories,
• Diet,
• food,
• future,
• gratification,
• Health,
• Nature,
• old age,
• sugar,
• tax,
• unwell

Adam Bulley, The University of Queensland and Thomas Suddendorf, The University of Queensland This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Everyone knows smoking, consuming too much sugar and drinking too much alcohol will harm our long-term health – but many of us do these things anyway. Why? Of course, … Read More

Is synthetic meat ethical? - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Nov 30, 2017 •

• animals,
• artificial meat,
• consuming science,
• ethics,
• food,
• Health and Medicine,
• meat,
• Science,
• sunfed foods,
• synthetic meat,
• Vegetarianism

I am deeply ashamed of it now – but at the time it seemed like an experience I couldn’t afford to miss. It was so exotic – and I was travelling. Twenty years ago I ate at a restaurant in Johannesburg, the Republic of South Africa,  which specialised in meat dishes – from game animals. It was a real feast. Stews of … Read More

The long, strange history of dieting fads - Guest Work

Guest Author • Nov 12, 2017 •

• diets,
• Eating,
• fad diets,
• food,
• Obesity

By Melissa Wdowik, Colorado State University.  “Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity.” So started William Banting‘s “Letter on Corpulence,” likely the first diet book ever published. Banting, an overweight undertaker, published the book in 1864 to espouse his success after … Read More