'Could I Have Averted This Disaster?' I was a young resident in August 2009 when I saw Mr Khan (name changed to protect patient privacy) in the primary care continuity clinic. He was a 52-year-old man ...

We’ve all heard the age-old adage, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” But what if new comprehensive studies argue breakfast is actually not that important? Intermittent fasters ...

Tired of that spare tire? Low-calorie diets work, but can be difficult to follow. A much simpler approach to losing weight might be to just stop eating every other day. It's called alternate-day ...

A portrait of Patience Gray taken in 1959 by a colleague at the Observer. A British food writer, Gray advocated slow food and foraging long before the rest of the food world. Her work had outsized ...