Will eating insects ever be mainstream?

For years I've read about the merits of eating insects as a way of making our diets more sustainable, yet as I still can't buy a packet of crickets in the supermarket I'm wondering if this will ever happen. Is it another green idea laid to waste by squeamishness? Lucy Siegle mulls it over

End this sugar rush – it’s the only way to tackle the obesity crisis

Simon Capewell: Attempts to reduce sugar content in food and drinks have failed in the face of Big Food. Legislation is now necessary

Put water on table and stop buying fizzy drinks, nutrition experts tell families

Sugar-sweetened drinks, including sports drinks, contribute to obesity epidemic and are problem for children, say experts

Healthy holidays: Grayshott spa does a soft take on Teutonic health farms

Our writer submits to a strict seven-day regime of fasting, abdominal massage, and lectures on nutrition when she checks into a retreat in the peaceful Surrey countryside

Should all British schoolchildren get free milk?

Head to head: Anne Karpf and Agnès Poirier debate whether David Cameron should have reinstated the free school milk that Margaret Thatcher took away

Meet the ‘super banana’ – a vitamin-enriched upgrade that could save lives

A million African children die or go blind every year due to vitamin A deficiency – but a new genetically modified strain of banana might help put a stop to that

Nutrition: in Sierra Leone breast is best

The government places breastfeeding at the centre of a campaign to move from treating malnutrition to preventing it. Anna Leach speaks to Aminata Shamit Koroma at the ministry of health

Rosemary Conley: I was a compulsive eater before I was born again

The fitness guru discussed dieting, food and the Lord in this 1995 interview with John Hind

MP David Lammy: how did he do in the health and wellbeing challenge?

'I've had a fantastic week' – David Lammy reflects on his new health regime while we compare our expert's assessment

Nutrition: ‘I’m feeling very Zen’

It's day four of our Health and Wellbeing Challenge and MP David Lammy has now turned his attention to nutrition

OurChemist

Our Chemist – Health