Clean eating and dirty burgers: how food became a matter of morals
The British have long associated delicious food with depraved indulgence, and now we have virtuous meals that are good for the soul. Is either attitude really healthy?
Office cake pushers – we need less work on our plates, not sweets
Pick-me-up chocolates and surprise sweets – cake culture at work is making it harder than ever to eat healthily
Eating more saturated fats raises risk of early death, says US study
Findings based on 126,000 people counter recent claims that people should eat more fat and fewer carbohydrates
Five a day? It’s none a day in Britain’s urban food deserts
In areas of the UK’s major cities, accessing affordable fruit and veg can be difficult – especially for those on tight budgets
Antibiotic-free meat to hit the shelves
Don’t want to eat pork pumped full of penicillin? Look for a smiling pig’s face on your next packet of bacon
How Brexit could damage our health
We would lose drug research and health service funding as well as free treatment in Europe, and we’d have no external arbiters of food, air and water quality. This is dangerous
Will I get acne if I eat fatty foods?
Greasy food is often thought to cause spots, but there are worse culprits for zits
Take it with a pinch of salt – the food marketing myths we’ve swallowed whole
Who says breakfast is the most important meal of the day? And why does spinach make you strong? It sounds like conventional wisdom, but most of it was cooked up by ad men
America is addicted to overeating. New food labels are too little, too late
A recent overhaul of nutrition guidelines will revise portion sizes upward, to better reflect eating patterns. But will that just reinforce them?
Between a rock and a lard place – is fat good for us, or what?
The National Obesity Forum says official guidelines to avoid fat are ‘the biggest mistake in modern medical history’ – but Public Health England are sticking to their advice