Look, I’ll be straight with you – eating only 800 calories a day sounds pretty extreme, and honestly? It kind of is. Most of us need somewhere between 1200-2000 calories just to keep our bodies ...

Dropping down the numbers on the scale is good, it keeps your body fit and moving as well, but at what cost? Is an 800-calorie diet really enough and is it even sustainable? The scientific answer to ...

Very low calorie diets consisting largely of soups and shakes will be offered to type 2 diabetes patients under a new NHS pilot scheme. Previous trials have found they’ve reversed the condition in ...

I first wrote about intermittent fasting – what I called the 5:2 diet – in The Mail on Sunday almost seven years ago. At the time a growing body of scientific evidence suggested this way of eating – ...