Stagnant wage growth is blamed for consumers spending less in shops. Photo: supplied

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The flaws in Australia’s healthy food rating system

It has been pitched as an easy-to-read system to help shoppers make healthier choices at the supermarket, but a leading nutrition expert says the Health Star Rating still has serious flaws, and ignores a key risk facing Australians.

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Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar

A new study that helps explain why some of us prefer sweet food could lead to personalised diets to improve people’s eating habits based on their genetics, writes researcher Daniel Liang-Dar Hwang.

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Can eating certain foods make you smarter?

Emerging evidence suggests that a healthy diet can improve brain function. Researchers Margaret Morris and Michael Kendig look at some of the foods that may help boost cognitive abilities and mental wellbeing.

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What seafood should we be eating?

New research shows that Australians eat a lot of shark and tuna, as well as farmed salmon and prawns – but there are other nutritious and sustainable varieties to consider.

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Nut milk trend may be depriving us of calcium

Consumption of nut-based ‘milk’ alternatives – such as almond milk and coconut milk – have grown by 90 per cent in two years, but this new obsession may be depriving Australian consumers of calcium.