Food and Health

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost British adults do not know what the recommended maximum daily salt intake is, according to a poll for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than a billion meals are thrown away every day, in poor countries as well as rich ones, despite more than 730 million…

Reading Time: < 1 minute  A Nigerian woman is facing up to seven years in prison for writing a damning review of a can of tomato…

Reading Time: < 1 minutecows Some milk from Texas and Kansas dairy cows has tested positive for bird flu, US health officials announced on Monday – but…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFree-range’ egg farms that supply to supermarkets chains have been stripped of their RSPCA Assured status after an undercover investigation found hens…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was shocked and ­surprised to see the headlines this week suggesting that intermittent fasting — specifically a type known as time-restricted…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn investigation by a consumer watchdog looked at 14 popular baby foods and compared levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium in seven…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCatastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I was a child, a stack of sliced white bread took centre stage on our dinner table, an essential accompaniment to…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWar between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its former security partners the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in Sudan’s capital Khartoum…