Britain in nutrition recession as food prices rise and incomes shrink

Families filling up on high-fat processed foods as 900,000 fewer in two years manage 'five-a-day' fruit and vegetables

Coconut water: all it’s cracked up to be?

Coconut water contains natural sugars and some important vitamins and minerals, but is it the wonder tonic the hype suggests? Katy Salter reports

Should I take fish oil supplements?

Luisa Dillner: The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish may reduce your risk of stroke, but supplements won't help

Should I eat breakfast?

Studies have shown that a good breakfast could hold the key to healthiness

Homespun cures for coughs and colds

What food or drink makes you feel better when you have a cold, and does it matter if it actually works as a cure or whether it's all in the mind?

The most repulsive cake shop in the world

Fancy an STI cookie or a polycystic kidney cake? At Eat Your Heart Out at London's Pathology Museum, those and other diseased parts of the body are on sale in edible sugary form

All supermarkets to adopt ‘traffic-light labelling’ for nutrition

Government announces move to make it easier for shoppers to see which foods are unhealthy

Pregnant women warned not to eat game killed with lead shot

Lead in pheasant, deer and grouse could pose serious risk to children and pregnant women, Food Standards Agency says

Many ‘low fat’ foods have similar calorie count to standard products, study finds

Sample of 12 'light', 'reduced' and 'low-fat' foods finds minimal differences in calorie content compared with standard products

Alzheimer’s could be the most catastrophic impact of junk food

George Monbiot: Poor diet is probably one cause of Alzheimer's. If ever there was a case for the precautionary principle, this is it