The food industry, government and wider society can build a healthier future for children and their families – but the issues are complex, as a recent panel of experts found ...

The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans send an unmistakable message: Added sugar has no place in a healthy diet. For policymakers and health professionals, that guidance is long overdue. For ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team. With almost two-thirds of adults in the UK living with excess weight, brands, supermarkets and ...

The gap between nutrition intentions and daily eating reality frustrates many health-conscious individuals. Despite understanding the importance of wholesome eating, time constraints and decision ...

The idea that we make over 200 unconscious food choices a day has been repeated for years, but new research shows the number is more illusion than insight. The famous figure comes from a counting ...

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets certain tasks, such as our morning commute, on autopilot to ...

U.S. teenagers still struggle to make healthy choices when it comes to diet, exercise and sleep, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report says. Specifically, the percentage of students ...

This essay is part of a series on environmental health. Who cares if we are sicker, as long as we look good? That’s the gist of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science approach to making ...

It’s hard to make healthy choices when you’re in a hurry, especially when you’re choosing between fast food drive-thrus that all seem equally unhealthy. Facing down a barrage of menu options leads ...

The Anambra first lady, Dr Nonye Soludo, has urged Nigerians to make healthy food choices by embracing local fruits, vegetables, legumes and tubers rich in the nutrients needed by the body, adding ...