Here’s the real recipe for healthy eating: a big fat serving of education

Artificial sweeteners might be fattening us up, say scientists. It’s time to ditch the diet drinks, gen up and take responsibility for bad food habits

Give peas a chance: why pea protein is leading the whey

Protein-packed dried and ground yellow split peas are 2017’s first big food trend. Anyone for a piece of pea pizza?

How to quit sugar this year: ‘It’s a lifestyle change, not a diet’

Week four is when most people experience a crash, and mine is monumental. But by week six, I’ve come through the other side

Diet drinks and other ways not to lose weight

It’s not just non-sugar fizz. From low fat to exercise highs, it’s time to expose a few other pound-shedding myths

Why is cream of tomato the only soup that works when I’m ill?

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No evidence sugar-free soft drinks aid weight loss – study

Academics say no evidence to support perception that ‘diet’ drinks are healthier than full-sugar versions

How the world got fat: a visualisation of global obesity over 40 years

It’s hard to understand or even believe the contagious way that obesity has spread virally around the world - so Max Galka created this visualisation

Children consume half of daily sugar quota at breakfast – study

Public Health England launches barcode app after finding that under-10s consume three times the recommended limit

Let them eat nuts: dentists want office ‘cake culture’ to end in 2017

Royal College of Surgeons dental faculty also urges firms to provide fruit and nuts instead of biscuits at meetings

Counting calories this Christmas? Beware the pigs in blankets

Average person will consume 6,000 calories on Christmas Day, report says – but you can cut down and still eat well