Weight Watchers
Drinking culture
Lightweights Anonymous
Anna Warwick We live in a binge drinking culture and there's always a lightweight casualty or two.
Weight-loss trade trims expectations
Jill Stark A new year: a new you. It's the diet industry's perennial catch cry. But as obesity rates continue to climb, weight-loss companies are rebranding their message.
Chew on this
Why nuts don't make you fat
Paula Goodyer The paradox of nuts is that while they're loaded with fat, they don't make us fat.
Salute the kernel
Paula Goodyer The message that nuts are a healthy food that can help lower bad LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol has been around for years.
Fighting fit and breaking down the fat
It is comforting to know that even the healthiest person still succumbs to cravings, and it is particularly encouraging to hear on the eve of swimsuit season.
Diet offender
'The obese have a mental problem'
Daisy Dumas The Frenchman behind the popular Dukan diet says that the overweight have a "mental problem".
Weighty question
Good parenting or figure fascism?
Andrea Black There's a right way and a wrong way to help children lose weight.
Rich pickings, fat or thin
Jill Stark JUNK food companies are making customers fat, then selling them the cure, health experts claim.
