Let’s face it: Christmas isn’t Christmas if you don’t end the day slumped on the sofa having changed into your pyjamas because you can’t deal with your jeans digging into your belly anymore. And that’s usually thanks to being bloated (which, in turn, is thanks to the 377,292 roast potatoes you ate). But it can …

If you’re a former smoker worried about the damage that cigarettes could have caused to your lungs, then you might want to start adding two fruits to your diet… According to new research by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a diet high in apples and tomatoes may help repair the lungs of ex-smokers. …

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an almost unlimited supply of roast potatoes, but did you know that you could prepare the perfect roasties in a microwave? Because we definitely didn’t. Jacket potatoes? Sure. Mashed potatoes? Maybe. But surely it’s not possible to recreate crispy on the outside/fluffy on the inside roast potatoes without, well, roasting …

Scrambled eggs are a simple dish by nature. Yet there are many different methods to serve them up, from runny to over easy to well done, and that’s not even counting the endless number of toppings you can add. Aside from these tricks for making the perfect eggs, however, there’s an easy way to upgrade …

Pass us a box of Quality Street and we’ll grab a handful. Offer us plate of salad and we’ll probably say no. But why? Why is it that we have such an affinity for sweet foods, despite the fact they’re really bloody bad for us? It’s one of the most unfair eventualities in life – …