When people did not consider calorie information, participants correctly saw a big gap between the healthy and unhealthy ...

About half of U.S. adults say healthiness of food is important when deciding what to eat. But taste and cost matter more.

When ultraprocessed convenience foods and terms like "freshman 15" are accepted as the norm in college culture, they’re not without consequence, UW student Shruti Badrish writes.

Every time you visit the grocery store, your brain is absorbing countless food-packaging cues. Those cues influence your ...

They say the well-designed experiments—including choice behavior, eye-tracking and state-of-the-art computational ... scores on food options can increase the likelihood of healthy choices.

Childhood overweight and obesity are a growing public health challenge in South Africa. In 2016, 13% of the country's ...

Approximately 48% of participants supported the implementation of higher taxes on unhealthy food. If tax-derived money were used to make healthy food more affordable, this number could increase to ...

Scientists have established the increased risk of depression with unhealthy dietary patterns ... these may do so at the cost of other healthy foods. Non-dietary factors were at work.