How timing your meals right can benefit your health
Eating well doesn’t necessarily just mean concentrating on the right diet – the time you eat (or don’t) can also make a big difference to your wellbeing
Go with your gut: scientist Tim Spector on why food is not just fuel
The scientist has spent years studying how gut health relates not just to nutrition, but to all aspects of our everyday wellbeing. He explains why it really is what’s inside that counts
Coffee bad, red wine good? Top food myths busted
We’re being bombarded with conflicting advice on what we should and shouldn’t put into our bodies. Finally, here are the definitive answers, according to the experts
Meal of a lifetime: what to eat at every age
From training toddlers to socialising septuagenarians – here are the ideal ingredients to eat healthily at every stage of life
Burn, baby, burn: the new science of metabolism
Losing weight may be tough, but keeping it off, research tells us, is tougher – just not for the reasons you might think
Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all
A new Swedish study says decades of official dairy wisdom is wrong. Here, a nutrition expert examines more science that questions standard health advice
More than half of snacks marketed as healthy are high in fat, salt or sugar
Action on Salt assessed 119 snacks including lentil curls and chickpea chips, finding some to be saltier than seawater
‘It was far less evil’: is the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet just another diet?
It might be marketed like other diets, but the revamped Total Wellbeing program still keeps evidence-based research at its foundation
Fit in my 40s: protein boosts fitness, but who wants to eat a kilo of chicken a day?
Powders are the way forward – you can even bake with them
How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
The long read: It’s cheap, attractive and convenient, and we eat it every day – it’s difficult not to. But is ultra-processed food making us ill and driving the global obesity crisis?