Sunscreens help to prevent burning and skin cancer, but they also block our main source of vitamin D, which protects us from a range of diseases, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Helen O’Callaghan says it’s important to encourage children to eat a wide variety of food and to start from a very early age so they can absorb a wide range of nutrients.

EVERY human gut contains trillions of bacteria: it’s a startling figure, but here’s another that is just as arresting — the probiotic market, aimed at maintaining a healthy gut, is worth a whopping €25 billion worldwide. 

IT’S easy to blame hormones for our widening waistbands during the menopause — while eating an extra biscuit to console ourselves.

IT’S hard to say a bad word about organic food. When given a choice, who wouldn’t opt for a plate full of clean, locally sourced fruit and veg? Goodbye pesticides, good riddance chemicals.

WHEN Neven Maguire’s twins, Connor and Lucia, celebrated their second birthday in February, they had just emerged out of the most important nutritional window of their lives.

HAPPY in your relationship but feeling a bit crowded?

THE McDonald’s fast food chain is combating claims of super-sizing the nation by letting Irish mothers help change its menu.

BRITISH scientists have identified genes which could lead to obesity in 70% of the population.