Nutrition

"Food, glorious food." If only everything that tasted nice was good for you! But we can, and should, maximise the nutritional benefit of our diet, to ensure that we both live longer and look better! (and it's not all doom and gloom!).

Read our useful articles below to find out exactly what, why, how, and when we should be eating. And you never know, you may even end up asking for "more."

• Weight gain: How genetic is it?
• As World DNA Day comes and goes, Joanna Lowy looks into research that weight gain is genetic and asks whether a tailored diet and exercise plan is the way forward.
• Where is the crisis in the horse meat scandal?
• Joanna Lowy explores the reasons behind the ongoing controversy.
• Do three coffees a day keep Alzheimer’s at bay?
• As new research suggests that drinking coffee can prevent Alzheimer's disease, Joanna Lowy asks: just how sensible a claim is this?
• Ice Cream Anonymous
• Ice-cream like drugs? Just what effect will the recent association have on the obesity epidemic? Joanna Lowy investigates!
• Brain food
• Christmas is coming, as are body woes and manic minds. Here Joanna Lowy explains how what you eat can banish both your internal and external demons.
• Cholesterol –The silent killer?
• Many people in the UK do not know about the many problems cholesterol can cause. Fresh on the heels of National Cholesterol Week, James Walerych aims to rectify this.
• Obesity and food labelling
• Another day another food labelling scheme, intended to tackle the nations growing obesity epidemic. But is it working? Joanna Lowy and James Walerych investigate.
• Should we be eating artificial meat?
• Artificial meat - yay or nay? Joanna Lowy investigates.
• Being vegetarian
• Is a vegetarian diet really as nutritionally beneficial as another containing meat? Being Vegetarian Month, NHS Online assesses the alternatives.
• Breaking down food intolerances
• Just what exactly constitutes a food intolerance, and how does it differ from an allergy? And how best to deal with them? Being Food Allergy Week, NHS Online decided to find out.
• Too much salt?
• Just what is too much salt? It seems like everyday the experts have a new opinion on the matter!