How to teach … healthy eating
New research suggests that five portions of fruit and vegetables a day isn't enough. Here's a collection of lesson resources to help you teach students about balanced diets
The science behind dietary supplements
Dr Spencer Nadolsky: From multivitamins to fish oil, daily pills and powders have become routine for millions around the world. But do we really need to take them?
So now it’s seven a day? Here’s my easy alternative: just stop eating rubbish
Alex Renton: Nanny Britain's fruit and veg regime will never work while the list includes fruitcake and sugar-laden drinks
Should I go back to saturated fats?
For years they have been blamed for increasing our risk of heart disease, but now it appears that they may not be quite as bad for us as we once thought
Why almost everything you’ve been told about unhealthy foods is wrong
Joanna Blythman: Eggs and red meat have both been on the nutritional hit list – but after a major study last week dismissed a link between fats and heart disease, is it time for a complete rethink?
‘Make mine a quinoa cappuccino’ – the unstoppable rise of the milk substitute
Sue Quinn: UK sales of non-dairy alternatives have risen by 40% in the last three years, but are they any competition for the real thing?
Messages about reducing sugar intake unclear, say campaigners
New WHO guidelines must be translated into something meaningful to consumers, says director of Action on Sugar
Now we can’t eat protein. What can we eat?
Zoe Williams: This week a new report said that a diet high in animal protein could increase oour chances of dying from cancer or diabetes fourfold. So if protein has joined sugar, fat and carbohydrate in being bad for us, what's left for dinner?
Diets high in meat, eggs and dairy could be as harmful to health as smoking
People under 65 who eat a lot of meat, eggs and dairy are four times as likely to die from cancer or diabetes, study suggests
It’s time to kick the high-protein diet habit – before it kills you
Holly Baxter: Veggies, tuck into your hummus with glee – it's now almost impossible to deny that eating too much meat, dairy and eggs is unhealthy