Moringa is this year’s big new superfood – but is it really good for you?

The plant is a good source of vitamins C and A, and various minerals – but with the dried powder costing £40 a kilo, it doesn’t come cheap

Kitchen gadget review: Lucky Iron Fish – I call this health tool Ozzy Ozbream

Add one of these heavy metal nuggets to your cooking water to suffuse the liquid with enough iron to stave off anaemia – and you can help the world’s poor at the same time

Chocolate corn cakes and apple crisps: 100-calorie snacks for kids

With new advice that parents should limit children to two low-calorie snacks a day, here are a few suggestions that should go down a treat

‘I feel less stuffed after dinners – and less guilty’: why I stopped eating meat

My journey towards vegetarianism started 30 years ago for practical reasons, but the more I eschew animal products the better I feel about everything

Vegging out: why eating Okinawa-style is the healthy option

Okinawa in Japan is fabled for its residents’ longevity. A fact attributed to a diet of ‘major on vegetables, minor on meat’. Now the island’s restaurants are making it available to visitors, too

Ho ho hold back … why you should go easy on the festive booze this year

Christmas without a drink is more or less unthinkable, but excess is a real danger. So how much alcohol is safe? And can it ever be good for you?

David Davis’s ignorance: now that’s what I call health and safety madness

Austerity has already driven a coach and horses through environmental standards – and we haven’t even got to the Brexit cliff edge yet, writes the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Is eating too quickly bad for your health?

Gulping down breakfast or lunch has long been thought unhealthy, but is there any evidence that eating your food too fast causes real harm?

Five-a-day eating targets ‘will be unaffordable for millions after Brexit’

Thinktank says consumption of fruit and vegetables could be hit by exchange rates, tariffs and higher labour costs

Only one in 10 Americans eat enough fruits and vegetables, CDC study finds

Only 12% meet the daily fruit recommendation and 9% the vegetable recommendation, and people living in poverty have especially low rates