What is RRSHS? And why is it so bad for you? RRSHS refers to Relative Risk Scary Headline Syndrome: why bore people with a sober assessment of how likely something is to kill them when you can scream a terrifying figure at them instead? RRSHS, asserts this article, is exactly the case behind the UK government’s latest "bizarre claims about booze" - ie that consuming two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples their risk of developing mouth cancer.

Sports science expert Professor Tim Noakes has caused something of a stir in health circles by refuting his own nutritional advice, widely espoused as athletics gospel. In an about-turn, Noakes is blaming food containing carbohydrates for the rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of California researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

A new Nielsen report has found that 59 percent of consumers around the world have difficulty understanding nutritional labels on food packaging and more than half (53%) consider themselves overweight.

When it comes to fat, what difference does color make? A lot, it seems, especially if you’re interested in losing it. For years now, scientists have been studying so-called brown fat, a type of heat-generating fat that burns energy rather than storing it.

The year 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of vitamins. In 1912, a scientist named Casimir Funk coined the term “vitamins” to describe bioactive substances essential for human and animal health. 

Ninety years after the breakthrough first use of insulin to treat diabetes, commemorated on Monday 23 January 2012, the disease remains one of the Western and developing worlds' most challenging pandemic health issues. According to the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF), in 2010, 285 million people were living with diabetes – approximately 4,6% of the world’s population. The WDF anticipates that these figures will increase to 438 million (7,8%) by 2030...

Feeling cranky, fatigued and unable to focus? You might just need a drink of water, according to new research.