Why is women’s body image anxiety at such devastating levels?

Almost 10 million women in the UK ‘feel depressed’ because of the way they look, according to new research kicking off Body Confidence Week. But campaigns to address the problem too often miss the point, asks Laura Bates

Campus nightmare: female students on the rise of sexual harassment

Photographed in their beds, shamed on social media – and, for some female students, that’s just the beginning. So what are British universities doing about sexual harassment and assaults on campus? Sally Williams investigates

We need public health heroes – can Hollywood help?

Tania Browne: Public health and epidemiology have produced many dramatic stories, ripe for the Hollywood treatment

Gambian campaigner returns home to stop female gential mutilation

Jaha Dukureh heads for The Gambia after 10 years in the US where she led a Guardian backed campaign against FGM

Quinoa, chia seeds and kale: superfoods or supermarketing?

Do claims of extra nutritional benefits confuse consumers or help raise overall awareness about a healthy diet?

Lonely potato syndrome: how I invented a mental disorder

Dean Burnett: Understanding and dealing with mental illness is complicated enough, without idiots going around making up new ones

Channel 4 hires former Miss Belgium to shake up sex education in schools

Goedele Liekens, who is also a therapist, will star in show campaigning to change the way subject is taught to UK children

A sound idea: can ambient noise make us work harder?

The Times has installed typewriter noise in its newsroom, the latest attempt to use sound to affect us functionally

The corncockle kerfuffle, or why Countryfile isn’t trying to kill you

Patrick Barkham: The BBC has been criticised after a scheme it promoted on Countryfile distributed packets of wild flower seeds containing a poisonous plant. But the truth is more complicated, and far less alarming

Ex-EastEnders star criticises Disney for unrealistic depiction of women

Tamzin Outhwaite says princesses with tiny waists waiting to be rescued by men was not a good role model for her daughters