The Case Against Sugar review – an unsweetened attack on diet myths

Gary Taubes’s latest assault on the ruinous effect of sugar on our lives and the promotion of fat-free diets is detailed and compelling

Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt – review

One woman’s quest for personal fulfilment proves a handy guide to sex in the internet age

New Year revolutions: four gadgets for a better you

Want to improve your fitness, sleep better or start making music this year? Our writers put the latest gadgets – and their New Year resolutions – to the test

Ex-bodybuilder Taryn Brumfitt campaigns to ditch diets and end myth of the ideal shape

Australian writer took on body image prejudices – and a new film, Embrace, shows her message winning global support

Simone Lia on pregnancy

So much changed in a short space of time…

Samer Nashef: ‘Understanding the healthcare system is a matter of life or death’

The cardiac specialist reveals how what really goes on behind the operating door inspired his book The Naked Surgeon

The New Man review – painfully intimate

A frank but unremarkable record by parents-to-be becomes profoundly moving when complications arise

Trolls, killers, watchers in the woods: Danes chill to the dark side of hygge

In Denmark they also embrace Scandinavian style’s scary antithesis – uhygge

Kids on the Edge review – an antidote to the hysteria around gender identity

The first of Peter Beard’s three-part series looking at children’s mental health visits an NHS identity development clinic and steadily dismantles inaccurate fears around what is clearly a complex process

BBC presenter goes into labour after appearing on live TV

Victoria Fritz, who reports business news on BBC Breakfast, gave birth to a boy with fellow newsreader as birthing partner