THE way a portion of food is described influences how much you eat, according to research I read today. Calling a plate of spaghetti “double size” made people eat less of it, says a survey conducted by the Cornell Food & Brand Laboratory

TV cook Ainsley Harriott has some great tips on how you can cook more healthy meals for your family  and I’ve chosen my favourites from the Change4Life website. We’re working with the experts at Change4Life to spread the healthy lifestyle message

KNOW the real problem with the snacks kids like most? They’re often the ones with the most fat, salt and sugar in  them – and they need healthier snacks. As an official national partner of the Department of Health’s Change4Life campaign, we’re working

HEALTHY eating is all about eating what we need not what we want. We were all brought up to finish the food on our plates, but sometimes it’s more than we really need. As a national partner of the Department of Health’s Change4Life campaign we’re working

Amanda Ursell, one of the UK’s leading nutritionists, has great advice on better breakfasts, fruit versus biscuits, stay-awake lunches. They’re all in this blog on healthy eating which she’s written  for Thinking Slimmer. Amanda Ursell’s the author of numerous books

I HELP a lot of people who have eating disorders and so many of them have addictions to sugar which started in childhood or at university and then lead to binge behaviours in adult life. I follow the work of Dr Robert Lustig, from a charity I belong to in America

IF you’re having a lie-down in a darkened room you won’t need me to tell you how awful stress can feel. Trouble is, when we’re stressed our bodies are less resistant to infection. So it’s important to keep calm and carry on. If you drink more than two cups of tea or coffee a day then you might

SOME times I despair about what children eat – my youngest son walked in the other day from school with a can of coke in one hand and a big bag of chocolates in the other. However hard we try to make our children eat healthily, sometimes it can feel like we are losing the battle.