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Doctors have hit back against a controversial study that linked diet soda to autism.Research by the University of Texas (UT) found boys diagnosed with autism were three times as likely to have mothers who drank diet soda daily while…

NATUREEight bears: Mythic past and imperilled future by Gloria Dickie (Norton £25, 272pp)There are eight species of bear around today. Can you name them? I got as far as black bear, brown bear, polar bear and panda bear, with vaguer…

I have high cholesterol and don't want to take medication so I'm doing everything lifestyle-related to help it: losing weight, increasing exercise. I'm a healthy weight and eating very well and yet the cholesterol isn't coming down. It…

Aspartame will be declared a potential cancer risk to humans, a bombshell report claimed today.The artificial sweetener, used in a multitude of soft drinks including Diet Coke and Dr Pepper, will be listed as 'possibly carcinogenic to…

You've got more chance of losing weight in January than the summer: Diets are most successful at the start of the year, study findsThose who diet at the start of the year see the most weight fall off, a study showsExperts…

Scientists claim that simple tweaks to diet, exercise and sleep could wind back a person's biological age in as little as eight weeks.Researchers at the University of Virginia tasked six healthy women who were around 58 years old to…

Are baked beans healthy? It was the question that set Twitter alight last week. According to food policy expert and author Rob Percival, the much-loved British staple brainwashes children into developing a taste for sweet foods from a…