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Choosing healthy food: surroundings can help or hinder your dining choices

Food producers & retailers try to influence our food choice toward more expensive and processed food

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Breanna Wright | The Conversation

Most of us know what sort of food we should eat to optimise our health and help avoid lifestyle diseases like obesity and heart disease. But we don’t stick to our ideal diets.

Part of the reason is that food producers and retailers spend a lot of money trying to influence our food choice toward more expensive and processed food, the sort we’re overeating. But several things can be done to encourage healthier eating.

We recently reviewed research investigating how to promote healthy eating when dining out. The review found manipulating the environment