Switching to a diet full of fresh veggies and low in processed foods could do wonders for your brain's biological age, new research shows.

The artificial sweetener sucralose (marketed as Splenda) is widely used and found in products like diet soda and chewing gum.

Could the sweetened drinks we knock back make us feel a little more anxious? A 2022 study that looked at the effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame on mice suggested that it's a possibility that's worth investigating further.

Over the last forty years or so, the number of people with diabetes has jumped from around 100 million to more than 500 million, with matching rises in associated health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease risk.

Whilst researching my latest book, Food for Life, I learnt that we’re very short of practical advice on food choices which are the most important things we can do for our health (humans and our gut microbes) and also to help the planet. I also learnt that how we eat can be as important as what we eat.

“Tasted like little pieces of dirt and I definitely don’t think it was worth it."

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Most health experts say the trendy keto diet, which bans carbohydrates to make your body burn fat for fuel, cuts out healthy food such as fruit, beans and legumes and whole grains.

I’ve been buying monkfruit sweetener that’s bulked up with a sugar replacement called erythritol. After reading this CNN article about a study linking erythritol to “blood clottin…

A study shows that a substance in the drink kefir can help combat disease-causing, antibiotic resistant bacteria by disrupting their communication.

Mycoprotein, also known as mushroom meat, is a market that is expected to boom in the coming decade.

A new study found that sugar consumption disrupts the microbiome and leads to a loss of immune cells in mice. The researchers draw a strong connection between the loss of these immune cells and cardiometabolic diseases, such as diabetes.

It seems like everyone is trying to get more protein into their diets, but is that really even necessary?

For most people in Europe and the US, the idea of eating crickets and grasshoppers can seem revolting, but they are a popular snack in parts of Africa and Asia. Not only are they packed with nutrients but they are less harmful to the climate too.

Food is commonly thought of as providing calories, energy, and nourishment. The most recent research, however, indicates that food may also "speak" to our genome, which serves as the genetic manual for the body's cellular-level operations.

What we eat and how we produce food matters. Food systems are responsible for more than a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot fully tackle the climate crisis without reducing the greenhouse footprint of our food. The issue is only becoming more urgent, as world population climbs alongside hunger stemming from war disruption of food exports.

From kelp burgers to bacon of the sea, sustainable food entrepreneurs are innovating to charm hungry omnivores

Adding salt to meals at the table is linked to an earlier death, according to a study of 500,000 middle-aged Britons. Researchers found that always adding salt to food knocks more than two years off life expectancy for men and one-and-a-half years for women. This does not include seasoning during the cooking process.