Nutrition

The cause of heart attacks is complex.

Notion saturated fat clogs arteries 'plain wrong'

Evelyn Lewin

Craving protein? It might be in your guts.

Listen to your gut - it can tell you what you need to eat

Sarah Berry

Salt: Not the effect we thought.

Salt makes you hungry not thirsty: study

Sarah Wiedersehn

Where our calories come from matter for our health.

Low-carb or low-fat or neither?

Sarah Berry

Image from Hippie Lane: The Cookbook by Taline Gabrielian (Murdoch Books, RRP $39.99).

How hippie food went mainstream

Sarah Berry

Devil of a bun? Nope.

Could your hot cross bun be giving you dementia? Uh, no

Sarah Berry

Blueberries for a better mood.

Six foods to eat for a mood boost

Cara Rosenbloom

Family fun without sugar: it's possible, Shenker says.

Could you raise a sugar-free family?

Sophie Ellis

Artificial sweeteners do not help with weight loss, study finds.

Why low-calorie sweeteners are making us fat

Evelyn Lewin

We're still not getting the message on the role fruit and vegetables play in physical wellbeing.

The nutrition report card that Australians are failing

Sarah Berry

Those with a healthy weight tend to have similar habits including lots of fresh vegetables and minimal processed foods.

The science of weight loss - dispelling diet myths

Paula Goodyer

Mediterranean diet: It's a good place to start, experts say.

Mediterranean diet vs statins to prevent heart attack and stroke?

SOPHIE EGAN

A poor diet can cause inflammation in the body and affect your mood.

Anxiety: When it's not in your head but in your body

Sarah Berry

Sol Orwell.

He ate cookies, lost 25 kg, and it makes sense

Sarah Berry

Wholegrains and refined grains are two different stories.

Despite the anti-carb diet fads, whole grains are still good for you

Amby Burfoot

Textures and aromas enhance the eating experience.

Smell your food and ditch iced water to eat healthily

Sarah Knapton

Eating whole fish is better than taking supplements.

Fish oil supplements don't make for better brains in children

Sarah Berry

The food choices a mother makes during pregnancy count.

Preventing chronic disease in the next generation - why diet in pregnancy matters

Paula Goodyer

We often stumble when our hopes meet reality.

Does 'false hope syndrome' make it hard to lose weight?

Juli Fraga

Can you eat bread and lose weight? Yes, according to a new study.

'Dramatic' weight-loss possible without counting calories, study finds

Sarah Berry

The Tsimane are into exercise and bananas (well, plantains which are a low sugar variety).

What those with the world's healthiest hearts do differently

Sarah Berry

Zoe Bingley-Pullin says consuming the right nutrients is important for physical and mental health.

Bingley-Pullin's top five mood-boosting foods

Zoe Bingley-Pullin

Almond milk or not 'milk' at all?

Is almond milk really milk?

ANAHAD O'CONNOR

Fuel your mood with happy foods.

Eating your broccoli can make you feel less stressed

Sarah Berry

Breakfast: it's worth the effort.

Breakfast, fasting, snacking: Heart panel weighs in on top meal-timing questions

Amby Burfoot

Refuel with water not sport's drinks.

Ten nutrition mistakes even really healthy people make

Cara Rosenbloom

A yoghurt smoothie for good mental health?

Yoghurt may help some forms of depression, study says

Sarah Berry

Alcohol and weight: there's a key to making sure it doesn't blow out.

Do we need to give up alcohol to lose weight? Not necessarily

JANE E. BRODY

Unless you're coeliac, gluten-free may not be doing you any favours.

Gluten-free fad could raise risk of diabetes

Henry Bodkin

Focus on sugar to prevent obesity a 'recipe for disaster', expert says

Sarah Berry
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Moderation: Processed meat, too much salt and too few vegies are linked with cardiometabolic death.

Death by diet: Cardio deaths linked to food

Sarah Berry

Journal: Tello wrote down what she ate because research shows tracking helps.

Prescription for weight-loss: Doctor takes her own advice

More vegetables a day might keep the psychologist away.

Vegan diet may let you lose a few kilos

Marta Zaraska

Weight and what we eat can affect fertility.

The best fertility diet may be low-carb, research finds

Sarah Berry

A low carb diet involves replacing certain foods with others.

What we should get straight about low carb, higher fat diets

Paula Goodyer

A good egg: What's the story?

Butter or olive oil? Eggs or no? New nutritional review cuts through the myths

Cara Rosenbloom

You don't have to abstain from food completely when you fast.

New intermittent fasting studies reignite debate about its benefits

Sarah Berry

Thousands of teens are overindulging in soft drinks

One in six teenage boys drinks at least 5.2kg of a sugar each year

Rania Spooner

People who consume a lot of sugar are at increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, scientists suggest.

Indulging your sweet tooth could raise risk of Alzheimer's

Henry Bodkin

Experts claim eating fruit regularly makes you 10 per cent less likely to be obese.

Fat chance fruit makes you fat, study says

Sarah Berry

Vitamins: pissing away your money?

Benefits of multivitamins questioned

Sarah Wiedersehn

The lifestyles of future fathers can affect their children epigenetically, research says.

Your sperm may be as good as your father's diet

Sarah Berry

Problem solved? Not so fast food.

School lunchboxes: why kids deserve better

Paula Goodyer

For women, food and friendship are intimately linked.

Why you shouldn't hide your diet choices from friends

Lowri Turni

Not all processed foods are equal.

Not all processed foods are bad for you. How they're made matters

Cara Rosenbloom

The usual: Ham sandwich.

One in six people have had the same lunch for at least two years, survey finds

Lydia Willgress

A supplement that may be able to give you a kick-start.

Could this anti-ageing supplement help prevent diabetes?

Paula Goodyer

Forget me not with good food.

Mental decline associated with ageing can be reversed by diet

Rachel Kelly

Are we inadvertently giving children the equivalent of alcohol for breakfast?

Expert says we are giving children the equivalent of alcohol for breakfast

Sarah Berry

Health is not one-size fits all but personalised health is not quite here.

The problem with personalised nutrition and health

Sarah Berry

A gluten-free cookie is still a cookie.

Four mistakes people make when going gluten-free

COMMENT
Jae Berman

Optimal levels of iron fortification in infant formula has experts divided.

Could iron overload in childhood pave the way for Parkinson's disease?

Paula Goodyer

Clean or confused?

A diet in disguise? How 'clean eating' became a dirty phrase

Sarah Berry

Many kids are consuming sugar from before they're born.

We need a war on secondhand sugar

Michael I. Goran and Emily Ventura

DIet is different for everyone.

'Diet is a four-letter word'

Ellie Krieger

Vitamins for flu? Is your money better spent elsewhere.

If you take dietary supplements for colds or flu, maybe you should reconsider

Marlene Cimons

Herbal remedies.

What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs

Adrian Higgins

Closeup of the Roasted Potatoes Baked potatoes with herbs for Owen Pidgeon's column March 2.

This just in: potatoes are not unhealthy

Tamar Haspel

When you eat may make a difference.

Dinner by 2pm

Sarah Berry

Weight loss doesn't have to be about deprivation.

A weight-loss expert changes his tune: Focus on enjoyment, not perfection

Amby Burfoot

Let go of the diet for better health.

Taking the diet out of 'diet' books

Sarah Berry
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Get your greens - conventional or organic.

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweighs the risks of pesticides

Cara Rosenbloom

Vegan athlete Rich Roll.

Power is no problem for vegan athletes

Kristen Hartke

Vitamins: pissing away your money?

Speaking of multivitamins, let's remember what happened in Sri Lanka in 1803

Vicky Hallett

The spice of longer life?

Red hot chilli peppers: the way to a longer life?

Sarah Berry

Cutting out gluten or cutting out other additives?

Why the 'gluten-free movement' is less of a fad than we thought

Caitlin Dewey

Nutella: A jam or nut butter on toast?

How Nutella plans to 'trick' you into thinking it's healthier than it is

Caitlin Dewey

'Alkalise' with lemons or just eat more unprocessed foods?

Why clean eating is now a dirty word

Dr Giles Yeo

Carrots: Don't slice away the goodness, keep the skin on.

Diet tweaks for a healthier 2017

Paula Goodyer

Cravings? Research shows alcohol activates the hypothalamus, the part of the brain usually stimulated by starvation.

Why drinking makes us binge-eat

Evelyn Lewin

Forget the date health bar and save it for a slice of cake?

The 'boringly simple' diet (that's not a diet)

Radhika Sanghani

Local, organic - clean eating means different things to different people.

'Clean eating' is a fuzzy term - and that's why it works

Jae Berman

There are better things to focus on than weight.

The surprising message of Healthy Weight Week

Sarah Berry

Ruby Tandoh at home in Sheffield, England.

Favouring flavour over fad

TEJAL RAO

Green juice? Great. Let's put some play into our eating too.

Healthy-ish: the answer to good health?

Sarah Berry

There's a time for refined foods.

Newsflash: why some refined carbs may be good for us

Paula Goodyer

Starving for seven days won't help your body to 'detox'.

Don't let detox diets deceive you

Ellie Krieger

Sorghum grains.

Plant proteins, healthy fats and more 2017 food trends

Christy Brissette

It's almost as if our weight wants to be maintained.

Here's a new year diet that might actually work

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Don't pass the bread...

Raw, vegan, gluten-free? Dinner party etiquette for hosts and guests

Christy Brissette

Savour the splurges.

Strategies for getting through the holidays without weight gain

Jae Berman

Bloated? Watch what you eat and get moving.

Overindulged? Try these remedies for gas

From Mayo Clinic News Network

Your liver doesn't know it's the season to be jolly...

Your liver doesn't know it's the holidays

Steph Yin

Medicinal: Australian manuka honey.

Australian manuka honey the super ingredient to fight superbugs?

Sarah Berry

Eat fruit like a monkey... or something.

It's not really the holidays until you read about avoiding weight gain

Vicky Hallett

Pomegranate: A sweet relief from sugar?

My answer to the holiday sugar glut: Pomegranates, and lots of them

Casey Seidenberg

'Good' fat or 'bad', they're still French fries.

Why we should stop talking about eating fat

Sarah Berry

Balance: Experts say we need more research to get a clearer picture of how omega-3 fats might influence weight.

Fat: Why we need to get the balance right

Paula Goodyer

Bad fat and good food? People are confused.

It's time to get over our fear of dietary fat

Carrie Dennett

New research: Look to the mind before the body.

Is this the missing link in weight-loss?

Sarah Berry

Same, same, but different.

One weight-loss approach fits all? No, not even close

GINA KOLATA

How foods are framed can change their appeal.

'Fight fire with fire': Health lessons we can all learn from Big Food

Sarah Berry

Choline, contained in foods including brussel sprouts, is important for good health, research says.

The nutrient you didn't know you were missing

Christy Brissette

Losing 'weight' - remember muscle weighs more than fat.

Rethinking what it means to 'lose weight'

Wina Sturgeon

Fibre and potassium for better blood pressure?

Is more fibre a recipe for better blood pressure?

Paula Goodyer

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The Jamie Oliver diet: How UK celebrity chef took on Big Sugar

Stephanie Baker

Protein fix? Where it comes from makes a difference.

Can you get too much protein?

Roni Caryn Rabin

Soft drink is one of the worst sugar offenders.

Shamed: the junk food ads judged to mislead children the most

Sarah Berry

Food is nothing to be afraid of.

Pleasure is good: How French children are taught to eat well

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