Your favourite curry recipes with health benefits, including two must know curry sauces! — With curry now replacing roast dinner as the nation’s favourite dish we’re rising to the challenge with our favourite curry recipes! Here are our top 10 curry recipes including 2 great sauces! I really hope you enjoy them. …

In an omelette here, grilled there, and in cheese sauce here, there and everywhere. I can’t get enough of it! — Can you be addicted to cheese sauce? I’ve never been a cheese fan; I didn’t grow up eating it and would only eat lasagne if I scraped the melted golden cheese off the top! How times have changed! Since realising a few years ago that I was severely lacking in calcium, I started eating cheese. …

We test vegan chocolate in UK supermarkets so you don’t have to — With so much vegan chocolate on the market how can you know which one to choose? My daughter Rayah is vegan so I put her to work along with our lovely intern Gabrielle and myself, to taste test a number of varieties. Most dark chocolates will be vegan (check the labels to make sure) so I haven’t included these. I chose chocolates that you can buy…

Omega 3 EPA/DHA is a fatty acid which is essential for human health and must be obtained from your diet More bad news about supplements! It’s been all over the news; new research saying that omega 3 supplements don’t reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke or death. …

A new Global Disease Study has found that poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths — I read a great report about it in a newspaper. The study, based at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, compiles data from every country in the world and makes informed estimates where there are gaps. The data has been taken from 5 papers…

The shocking truth about how much sugar is in your children’s yogurt pot. I get a lot of newsletters into my inbox every day, research, recipes, all sorts. Anyway this came in this morning; Yogurt — from Harvard Chan, School of Public Health. …

The holidays are nearly over and if you’re anything like me you may have overindulged just a bit! As you all know here at CheckYourFood we don’t really do diets, we just try to make sure we’re getting our RDA’s (recommended daily amounts) for all of our nutrients, but every…

Health Profile for England Most of us have probably had an older relative or know of someone who has had dementia and know how devastating it can be. A new report has shown that as the population of England gets older dementia has become the leading cause of death among…

I’ve been eating chillies for nearly 50 years, you could say I’m addicted to them, so when I came across a whole load of research about the active ingredient in chillies called capsaicin, showing that my favourite flavour sensation had health benefits my heart soared. My chilli journey It all…