Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals
Study compiling data from every country finds people are living longer but millions are eating wrong foods for their health
Lack of sleep could contribute to mental health problems, researchers reveal
Study finds therapy designed to treat insomnia also reduced paranoia and hallucinations, and improved depression and anxiety in patients
‘I assumed it was all my fault’: the adults dealing with undiagnosed ADHD
It’s 30 years since the condition was recognised. It is most often associated with children, but more and more grownups are now being diagnosed. Does this help?
Lydia Towsey: how I discovered the Venus in me
From Botticelli to glossy magazines, women have been idealised and misrepresented for centuries. Performance poet Lydia Towsey reveals how her own near-fatal eating disorder set her on a path to explore new ways of looking at female bodies
Severe birth trauma has left me terrified of having another child
Normally associated with soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder affects 20,000 new mothers in the UK each year
We need to talk about male suicide – and not just when celebrities suffer
Our society fears seeing men as vulnerable or weak, writes OCD Action chair Richard Taylor
Why we fell for clean eating
The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it
People can live with mental illness. I am living proof of this
Art allowed me to express myself in a way I had never done before. I’ve come so far since my desperate suicide attempt
I was neither female nor starving myself. So how was I anorexic?
Being a male patient on an eating disorders ward was isolating at times, but it was a life-changing experience, writes student Toby Symonds
Arts can help recovery from illness and keep people well, report says
All-party inquiry demonstrates benefits to health and wellbeing of the arts, leading to fall in hospital admissions