Finding that men eat more with women could impact marketing strategies

08-Dec-2015 Last updated on 18-Mar-2017 at 17:18 GMT

New research that finds men eat significantly more in the company of women than with other men begs the question whether marketers could boost sales of food and beverages by including women in marketing.

Study questions association between junk food and obesity, points finger at total calories consumed

09-Nov-2015

By Elizabeth Crawford

Demonizing unhealthy food as the primary cause of weight gain may be off-track, suggest researchers who found consumption of fast food, sweets and salty snacks alone may not be the harbinger of obesity it often is made out to be.

Cornell study validates the ‘See food (and eat it)’ diet…and why out of sight is out of mind

22-Oct-2015

By Elaine Watson

It’s a joke emblazoned on a thousand t-shirts and coffee mugs (I’m on the See-food diet… I see food, and I eat it…). But could we learn something from it? Apparently so, says a new study from Cornell University, revealing that the foods we leave out on...

Food presentation could affect kids’ food choices, suggests study

12-Jan-2012

Food choices are influenced by presentation for children as well as adults – but what appeals to kids may be quite different from what appeals to their parents, suggests new research published in the journal Acta Pædiatrica.