Nature provides a cornucopia of flavoursome foods to help reduce appetite, kilojoules and weight while also protecting your health.

An overwhelming amount of evidence shows that regular exercise is essential to maintaining good health and wellbeing and staying young. It’s never too late to get moving, and the time to start is now!

Winemaking dates back thousands of years — vines were widely cultivated in ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE. Wine is still one of the most popular beverages throughout the world and is prized for its social and health benefits.

We all feel run-down from time to time, but if your energy levels are frequently on the low side, it may pay to check the level of your cortisol and thyroid hormones. Get these sorted out and you’ll be feeling bouncy again.

Coffee is the world’s second most traded commodity, only deferring to oil, and is the most traded food. It is a social lubricant but has real impacts on your body. So how should you drink it and how much should you have?

Most food products are packaged primarily with economic efficiency, not consumer health, in mind. Exposure to chemicals can make the food we consume damaging to our health, so it’s important to know what’s really cooking.

Lentils are a healthy, low-calorie food that’s inexpensive and can be the basis for delicious dining.

We are all familiar with the flavour benefits of adding spices to our food. However, more people are beginning to appreciate the medicinal virtues of spices with their use being extended into foods that also served as medicine.

It’s a well-established fact that the tomato is a good source of vitamin C, with levels similar to that of kiwi fruit or oranges. However, new research shows the humble tomato is a much more important health food than previously realised.

Weigh out the pros and cons of drinking alcohol and learn how it can really affect your health.

Having an optimistic outlook can prevent specific diseases and promote longevity.

Pistachio nuts are a good way to raise levels of lung protecting antioxidants.