Ten Mediterranean recipes to help you live longer

Research has once again shown that Mediterranean-style diets offer great health benefits. So why not try one of our chefs' tasty and healthy recipes tonight?

Healthy food: can you train yourself to like it?

Willpower can only get you so far when it comes to eating well. But many psychologists believe there are tricks we can use to change our tastes. What are they and how do they work?

Mediterranean diet ‘cuts strokes and heart attacks in at-risk groups’

Research shows diet can reduce risk for people who smoke, have type 2 diabetes or exhibit other unhealthy characteristics

Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss – review

A damning investigation into the junk food industry is both chilling and contentious, writes Joanna Blythman

Will changing my diet help me to sleep better?

New studies have claimed links between the way we eat and the way we rest at night

How safe are running supplements?

The death of runner Claire Squires during the London marathon last year has been put down to the sports supplement Jack3D that she took. So should athletes avoid them altogether? Patrick Barkham investigates

Fast food and takeaways linked to surge in child asthma and allergies

Teenagers more likely to have severe asthma and eczema if they eat fast food more than three times a week, study shows

The antioxidant myth is too easy to swallow

Henry Scowcroft: People are hooked on the fallacy that 'antioxidant' is a byword for 'healthy' – perhaps because the truth is less appealing

Calls for expansion of scheme providing free breakfasts to hungry children

Boris Johnson launches £650,000 programme to provide healthy food to children in capital's most deprived boroughs

Why January diets are doomed to fail

January is not the time to start a diet, it's a month to enjoy comfort foods. Save the salads for the summer, says Catherine Phipps