"Why am I always tired?" is one of the UK's most googled health questions — and if you are juggling work, family and a phone that never stops, the answer is usually "life". But nutrition plays a real supporting role, and a few nutrients are officially recognised in the UK for their contribution to reducing[…]

Vitamin D is the one nutrient the UK government actually has an opinion about. The advice is unusually direct: consider taking a daily supplement through autumn and winter, because between roughly October and March the sunlight here isn't strong enough for your skin to make any. Which raises the obvious July question. It's summer. Can[…]

Going vegan (or mostly plant-based) is one of the few times almost every nutrition professional agrees a multivitamin is worth considering — a handful of nutrients are genuinely harder to get from plants alone. But the vegan multivitamin shelf is crowded and noisy. Here is the checklist we would use ourselves.1. Check the non-negotiable nutrients[…]