Go with your gut: scientist Tim Spector on why food is not just fuel

The scientist has spent years studying how gut health relates not just to nutrition, but to all aspects of our everyday wellbeing. He explains why it really is what’s inside that counts

Coffee bad, red wine good? Top food myths busted

We’re being bombarded with conflicting advice on what we should and shouldn’t put into our bodies. Finally, here are the definitive answers, according to the experts

Meal of a lifetime: what to eat at every age

From training toddlers to socialising septuagenarians – here are the ideal ingredients to eat healthily at every stage of life

Burn, baby, burn: the new science of metabolism

Losing weight may be tough, but keeping it off, research tells us, is tougher – just not for the reasons you might think

Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all

A new Swedish study says decades of official dairy wisdom is wrong. Here, a nutrition expert examines more science that questions standard health advice

More than half of snacks marketed as healthy are high in fat, salt or sugar

Action on Salt assessed 119 snacks including lentil curls and chickpea chips, finding some to be saltier than seawater

‘It was far less evil’: is the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet just another diet?

It might be marketed like other diets, but the revamped Total Wellbeing program still keeps evidence-based research at its foundation

Fit in my 40s: protein boosts fitness, but who wants to eat a kilo of chicken a day?

Powders are the way forward – you can even bake with them

How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket

The long read: It’s cheap, attractive and convenient, and we eat it every day – it’s difficult not to. But is ultra-processed food making us ill and driving the global obesity crisis?

Greggs, guilt and glucose: what I’ve learned from a life of dieting

I’ve spent decades trying every fad and detox, looking for the magic formula for weight loss