Sandwiches are toast: why we swapped sliced bread for wraps and salads
Sales of packaged loaves are down as consumers turn to alternative breads – or avoid baked goods altogether. Is this the end of the packed lunch?
Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
Converts to the bestselling blood sugar diet say you can. When one type 2 diabetic tried it, he reversed his condition. Four years on, is he still cured?
I’ve heard all the arguments against a sugar tax. I’m still calling for one in Australia
Big Soda pushes the idea that obesity is just a matter of personal responsibility. It’s not true and that’s why we must follow the UK, Mexico, France and Hungary
When’sa your Dolmio day? ‘Occasionally’, new labels to say
Mars Food’s pasta products, high in sugar and fat, to carry label advising shoppers that food is not for everyday consumption
The sugar conspiracy
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
Does peeling the skin of fruit or veg mean losing all the goodness?
Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts
Sex Dust – ‘an etheric potion from the cosmos to save the human race’
Sold out on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, the $60 powder claims to have ‘primordial’ aphrodisiac powders. But will it really make your smoothies fruitier?
Early introduction of peanuts and eggs cuts allergy risk, study finds
Babies introduced to potentially allergenic foods from three months had lower chance of developing allergy later in life
Soup, cheese and cereal among worst offenders on salt – study
Campaign group says progress made before 2010 has been sacrificed since introduction of voluntary ‘responsibility deal’
Lack of sleep alters brain chemicals to bring on cannabis-style ‘munchies’
Sleep deprivation may cause overeating by boosting chemicals for appetite as well as those that increase the pleasure of eating sweet or salty high-fat foods