Date: 12/06/2006
A tiny daily capsule can have a dramatic effect on pupils who usually play up in class, improving behaviour and work. Now all youngsters may be given them. Marie Woolf and Jeremy Laurance report
Date: 07/06/2006
Research proves fish oil tablets can boost your child's brainpower - but how do you persuade fussy youngsters to take them? Here, an expert rates the top brands...and our junior panel give their taste verdict:
Date: 01/06/2006
Date: 23/04/2006
Childhood obesity in England has doubled in 10 years, figures show.
Date: 23/04/2006
There is no evidence of a clear benefit to health from fats which are commonly found in oily fish, researchers say.
Date: 02/03/2006
Measures which would see the sale of fizzy drinks and unhealthy snacks banned in schools have been set out by a nutrition advisory body.
Date: 20/01/2006
Eating oily fish and seeds in pregnancy can boost children's future brain power and social skills, research suggests.
Date: 20/01/2006
Compounds in the common British blackcurrant could help prevent Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. A study shows blackcurrants and their US cousins, boysenberries, are full of potentially beneficial anti-oxidant compounds.
Date: 16/01/2006
Changes to diets over the last 50 years may be playing a key role in the rise of mental illness, a study says.
Date: 16/01/2006
As new figures show that mental ill-health is costing the UK almost £100 billion a year, evidence released today by the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain reveals that changes to the human diet in the last fifty years or so could be an important factor behind the major rise of mental ill-health in the UK.
Date: 01/01/2006
Date: 14/10/2005
Date: 14/10/2005
Date: 07/10/2005
Scientists once got sacked for suggesting oily fish was good for you. Now all and sundry are hailing it as a panacea.
Date: 03/10/2005
Report in Environmental Health Perspectives finds health benefits, but concerns remain about mercury levels
Date: 29/09/2005
Date: 13/09/2005