When’sa your Dolmio day? ‘Occasionally’, new labels to say

Mars Food’s pasta products, high in sugar and fat, to carry label advising shoppers that food is not for everyday consumption

Post-recession Britons are healthier, better off and living greener lives

National wellbeing snapshot covering period as UK shrugged off financial crisis finds improvements in 17 of its measures

The party’s over for young people, debt laden and risk averse

With such grave financial prospects, it’s no wonder today’s under-25s prefer jogging to drinking. To have a sense of freedom now seems illogical

Private health cover: governments only care about rising costs when they’re paying, not you

With another hike in premiums, consumers have to weigh up whether they are better off paying money to an insurer, or saving for a rainy day

On the pulse: a chef, a football manager and a TV star track their heart rates

What does a stressful job do to you? We asked people including Sam Allardyce, Kirsty Wark and Angela Hartnett to wear a heart rate monitor for a day to find out

Organic consumers avoiding processed and red meat, sales show

Data on British buying habits in 2015 reveals a move away from products such as sausages and bacon in favour of fish and poultry

Vienna named world’s top city for quality of life

Study examining socioeconomic conditions places Austrian capital at apex of index while London, Paris and New York fail to make top 35

When the chips are down: what it’s like to gamble everything away

Brits now spend £1bn a week on fixed-odds betting terminals – our readers talk about the human cost of this habit

As the rich get richer everyone else gets less happy

Research suggests that as the wealth of the richest explodes, the rest of us are left stressed, worried, angry and with lower levels of life satisfaction