Mo Farah has a penchant for chocolate milk after races and intense training sessions, but far from being a rare moment when the double Olympic champion strays from his almost monastic nutritional regime, this is actually a vital part of his post-run recovery programme.The explosion of research in

In 1974 War on Want's publication The Baby Killer led to widespread condemnation of businesses that aggressively market breastmilk substitutes in the developing world. In response WHO isssued guidelines five years later, the International code of marketing of breastmilk substitutes.More than 30

"Why not eat insects?" asked American pamphleteer Vincent Holt in 1885, proof that selling the idea of insect-eating to meat'n'two veg culture is nothing new.There are already 2 billion people worldwide who routinely eat bugs, but entomophagy is having a foodie moment in the western world. Insects

If you have any interest at all in diet, obesity, public health, diabetes, epidemiology, your own health or that of other people, you will probably be aware that sugar, not fat, is now considered the devil's food. Dr Robert Lustig's book, Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and

Being a nutritional role model for your kids is tough when you're a greedy guts with all the self-restraint of a hungry lioness with her head stuffed into the carcass of a recently downed zebra. I was thinking about this recently as I was hiding my stash. As ever, it was the hard stuff: a bag of