How to choose a healthier cheese

Oliver Thring: Salt is essential to making good cheese, but new research reveals the levels can be worryingly high – so how do you select a healthier slice for your sandwich?

The ‘nutrition gap’ between Britain’s rich and poor is vast – and wicked

Ian Jack: The gulf between people's diets is worse today than it was when George Orwell wrote The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936. However complex the reasons, the fact is shocking

Should I take fish oil supplements?

Luisa Dillner: The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish may reduce your risk of stroke, but supplements won't help

Should I eat breakfast?

Studies have shown that a good breakfast could hold the key to healthiness

All supermarkets to adopt ‘traffic-light labelling’ for nutrition

Government announces move to make it easier for shoppers to see which foods are unhealthy

Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: how can I prevent gout?

You don't have to be a Tudor monarch to experience this painful condition

A recipe to tackle malnutrition among the elderly

A new project aims to provide a cost-effective way of improving the diets of elderly people in residential care homes

Omega-3 may help struggling children to read, says study

Children whose reading skills were in the lowest fifth of the normal range improved over the four months of the study

Organic food: nutrition study leaves health question unanswered

Flora Malein: Fans of organic food will be pleased it contains fewer contaminants, but health benefits have yet to be shown

Calorie restriction doesn’t slow ageing, monkey study suggests

Eating less improved health but had little effect on the longevity of rhesus monkeys, contrary to previous research