Links between high blood pressure and salt intake have been made for the first time in Australians.

A parent in a low decile school sums up the impact of school food programmes for children in three words: "They love school."

Sharing food across the wider whanau is the only way Papakura's Peawini family keeps food on the table.

More than 100 Herald readers have signed up to pay $15 a month to sponsor hungry children in response to this week's campaign on the issue.

Poorer families are cutting out meat and vegetables to keep up repayments to finance companies, budgeters say.

Queen St is turning into a strip of fast-food outlets, despite the best efforts of city planners.

The idea that we are short of water comes from a guideline in 1945 that adults should drink 2.5 litres every day.

Each week, Wendyl Nissen takes a packaged food item and decodes what the label tells you about its contents.

Scientists blame the increase on the spread of a Western-style diet, leading to rising levels of obesity.

Each week, Wendyl Nissen takes a packaged food item and decodes what the label tells you about its contents.

Pasta has conquered plates and bowls as the world's favourite food.

Claire Gourley, the author of Who's Cooking Tonight? says: "I love food but I'm always busy with friends, school and sport and don't have much time to spend cooking. But that doesn't mean I want to settle for average food ... "

Shelley Bridgeman asks six women and men to tell us what they eat in a typical day - from the multisport athlete who trains 20 hours a week to the lap-band surgery patient who can't eat more than a cup and a half of food at a time.

A high-profile personal trainer inflames the plus-size model debate, saying he wouldn't trust one to save him in a fire.

It's low in carbohydrates due to a lack of bread, and while the Double Down might trigger the taste buds...

Children who have meals with their families are less likely to be fat than those who eat alone, research has found.