Packed lunches: pupils face ban in new school food plans
No 10 aims to boost take-up of school meals as report by Leon suggests link between nutrition and academic performance
Margarine v butter: are synthetic spreads toast?
Sales of margarine are in decline, due to a combination of reformulated recipes, price, health and taste. Do you defend marge, or is butter simply better?
Labour unveils plan to promote food-growing culture in Britain
Plant fruit trees on housing estates and vegetable patches in schools to address 'nutrition recession', party says
Tokyo’s traditional diet
Michiko Ono and Masaru Nishimori are both in their 80s, have never suffered a serious illness and deal with the Japanese capital's city heat better than their interviewer
The Okinawa diet – could it help you live to 100?
Japanese people are more likely to reach 100 years old than anyone else in the world, a fact that some researchers attribute to their diet. So, are they right – and is eating tofu and squid the place to start?
Seattle woman Naveena Shine drops attempt to live on light
Shine went for 47 days without food but says financial difficulties she's enduring are 'message from the universe that it is time to stop'
Blackpool to extend free breakfast scheme to 12,000 primary school pupils
Pilot scheme success prompts council to roll out £1.3m scheme to provide fruit, yogurt and bread to town's 33 primary schools
Why we shouldn’t force children to eat their greens
Tim Lott: I recall one epic battle when I tried to get Jean, then aged about eight, to eat a single pea. I failed. And I was furious
Chocolate bags: filled with calories
Why the new trend for smaller snacks could be a big problem for your waistline
Prunes: why the dried plum is making a comeback
Great for your bones, full of vitamins, and that laxative effect was apparently a myth all along