Pescatarians are right – why I say eating fish is more ethical than eating meat

Pescatarians might frustrate purist vegetarians, but the issues surrounding fish are quite different to meat.

Martin Cohen, Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire • conversation
July 12, 2021 ~6 min

Pescatarians are right – why eating fish is more ethical than eating meat

Pescatarians might frustrate purist vegetarians, but the issues surrounding fish are quite different to meat.

Martin Cohen, Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire • conversation
July 12, 2021 ~6 min


British consumers complicit in forty-year ‘healthy eating’ failure, new study suggests

‘Healthy eating’ campaigns have largely failed in Britain for the last four decades because consumers have adapted confusing advice, and incorporated fast and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 1, 2021 ~9 min

Four ways to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises simultaneously

Solve the climate and extinction crises together, or solve neither.

Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science, UCL • conversation
June 30, 2021 ~8 min

Post-Brexit trade deals may cause 1,500 additional diet-related deaths every year – new study

We need a free trade agreement for vegetables – and not much else.

Marco Springmann, Senior Researcher, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford • conversation
June 29, 2021 ~5 min

Giving food pantry clients choices – and gently nudging them toward nutritious foods – can lead to healthier diets

Behavioral economics, long employed in grocery stores to guide customers to certain products, could be employed by food banks and pantries to encourage healthier choices.

Marlene B. Schwartz, Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut • conversation
May 25, 2021 ~8 min

Unhealthy patterns of diet, exercise, and sleep linked to high risk of cardiovascular disease in autistic people

Autistic people have far greater risks of long term physical health conditions than others, but the reasons for this remain unclear. New research from the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 10, 2021 ~4 min

PCB levels in Icelandic orcas depend on what they eat

Accurate forecasting of health risks to killer whale populations may depend on looking at what individual orcas eat.

Katherine Gombay-McGill • futurity
May 6, 2021 ~4 min


Our co-workers can influence how we eat, study finds

People in our social networks influence the food we eat — both healthy and unhealthy — according to a large study of hospital employees.

Anita Slomski • harvard
April 22, 2021 ~6 min

A nutrition report card for Americans: Dark clouds, silver linings

New research shows both adults and kids are eating more nutritious food. But minorities and low-income populations still lag behind the rest.

Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University • conversation
April 12, 2021 ~7 min

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