Forget fad diets: sustainable food is healthier and more eco-friendly

If you want to eat in a healthier and more cost-effective way, then follow a sustainable diet of home-grown vegetables and cut down on the meat

Baroness Campbell: young people’s physical inactivity ‘bleak and worrying’

Baroness Sue Campbell, the chair of the Youth Sport Trust, says physical education and sport in schools must be prioritised if Britain is to fight back against child obesity

How to survive a medical emergency on your year abroad

A hospital visit probably isn’t on the agenda for your year abroad, but it pays to be prepared for the worst-case scenario

Don’t let chronic fatigue stop you going to university

Living with ME is tough but you can succeed if you pace yourself carefully – and ask for the adjustments you need

School pupils and hospital patients at risk of killer pollution, say MPs

Committee says it is unacceptable a whole generation could have health seriously impaired by air pollution above EU limits

Scheme offering shopping vouchers to mothers who breastfeed to be extended

The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world but pilot scheme suggests offering vouchers can help takeup

Emotional health in childhood ‘is the key to future happiness’

LSE study says money, success and good grades are less important

High-fliers have more babies, according to study

Growing wealth divide allows high-fliers who can afford childcare to have families, study suggests

‘Today we’re talking masturbation’: sitting in on a sex education class

As bill to make sex education a statutory requirement gets its second reading in the Commons, Sally Weale attends a lesson

Efua Dorkenoo OBE, the ‘incredible African female warrior’, has died

Dorkenoo’s lifelong dream of a global, Africa-led movement against FGM was realised just a week before her death