27 January 2023
A study has suggested that the UK’s 2018 sugar tax prevents 5000 cases of obesity among 10 to 11-year-old girls in England every year, but the picture may be rather more complicated than that
13 June 2022
A major policy paper fails to address big health and environmental issues it was supposed to tackle, such as how to enable the diet changes needed to reach net zero
12 February 2020
A widely cited estimate of food waste appears to be wrong because it fails to account for how much more food rich people waste than poorer people
10 January 2020
A TV documentary claims we can save the world’s wildlife by turning solar energy directly into food and rewilding farms
10 October 2019
A proposal to ban snacks on public transport has appeared in a UK government report. But it doesn't seem based on evidence, and the government won't discuss it
17 January 2019
There is no doubt that a “planetary diet” involving more vegetables and less meat would benefit the environment and likely save lives too, but making it happen won’t be easy
15 June 2018
A landmark study that touted the benefits of the Mediterranean diet has been retracted, but eating more fresh fish and veg is still good for you, if you can afford it
26 April 2018
Doctors are calling for an expansion of sugar taxes to include sweets and cakes, but we don’t yet know whether higher prices will lead to improved health
16 March 2018
Microplastic particles may taint some bottled water, but the ecological cost of bottles is a better reason to turn on the tap instead
6 March 2018
Public Health England is launching new schemes to reduce people’s calorie intake, but history suggests they won’t solve the growing obesity problem
