Hot Cheetos are getting their own biopic, but might land you in hospital

The super-spicy snack, set to get its own origin-story film, has been blamed for a teenager’s emergency gallbladder surgery

Asperger’s Children by Edith Sheffer review – the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna

In popular legend, Asperger was an Oskar Schindler figure who shielded his charges from euthanasia. The truth is more uncomfortable

Ban fat-shaming show Insatiable, its critics cry. But none of them have seen it

Like Beverley Hughes railing against Brass Eye, those who pelt round the hamster wheels of social media outrage have – yet again – confused the subject of a joke with its target

Insatiable’s fat-shaming is dangerous. Don’t do it, Netflix

A thin actor in a fat suit doesn’t help teenagers struggling with body image, says writer and comedian Sofie Hagen

Insatiable: 100,000 sign petition to cancel Netflix ‘fat-shaming’ series

Comedy starring Debby Ryan as overweight teen who takes revenge on tormentors criticised for promoting ‘toxic’ ideas

Matt Haig: ‘As a young man, I wanted everything loud and intense’

The writer talks about combatting his fear of the future, anxiety and appreciating life on low-volume

Writer Chidera Eggerue on what #SaggyBoobsMatter is really about

She started a movement with one simple question: why should only small-boobed women go braless? Now, Eggerue has written a book she calls an antidote to the self-help scene

In Brief: Notes on a Nervous Planet; We Begin Our Ascent; The Bedlam Stacks – reviews

Matt Haig extends his hard-won mental health wisdom to an anxious world, Joe Mungo Reed crafts a convincing cycling novel, and Natasha Pulley pulls of a fine steampunk adventure

Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one

Surrealist artists, dogged detectives, modern lovers and spies behaving badly ... leading authors pick their best books to enjoy these holidays

Elvis Costello reveals cancer diagnosis as he cancels tour dates

‘Small but very aggressive’ cancer has been operated on, but recovery forces songwriter to pull out of tour