You’re right about trans fats – but high cholesterol needn’t be bad
Response: There's no evidence for a link between total blood cholesterol and heart disease, say Rod Bilton and Larry Booth.
Overeating by obese people is like drug addiction, brain research finds
· Study offers new insight into weight problems· Compulsion to eat driven by emotion, say scientists
New York to outlaw trans fats in 24,000 restaurants
· City health board acts over heart disease worries · Food outlets face limit of half gram per serving
Grease is the word
The British public is belatedly waking up to dangers of trans fats - the cheap, chemically treated oils that lurk unlabelled in many processed foods. Alex Renton investigates the ingredient viewed with suspicion even by the junk food-loving Americans.
What’s on your hospital lunch tray today?
Spring-vegetable casserole or beef stroganoff, sir? The menus often sound appetising, but what does hospital food really taste like? With budgets being slashed and kitchens closed, many hospitals nowadays have to buy in ready-prepared food from outside suppliers and heat … Continue reading
Hospital food – it’s enough to make you sick
Thick, salty soup with the texture of wallpaper paste; a pie crust, hiding a serving of mechanically recovered 'meat' and dry mash. Is this the best patients can hope for? Jay Rayner investigates.
The battle of Rawmarsh
The women passing food through railings have been labelled 'junk-food mums' and are accused of leading a backlash against Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners campaign. But is the story really that simple? Martin Wainwright goes behind the lines.
Pay more or we quit, canteen operators to tell schools as vending machine purge hits profits
· Firms say pupils buy fizzy drinks and crisps outside· Setback for Jamie Oliver as new TV series begins