Want a feel-good story about health and longevity from a mainstream newspaper? Look no further. The Telegraph ran a great piece on how Dr. David Unwin is reversing Type 2 diabetes in his patients.

He lays out a simple and effective 6-point plan to get his patients off medication.

Unsupplemented vegan diets do not contain vitamin B12 and have been described as a “dangerous experiment”.

This is a tragic story of what can go wrong.

Spoiler alert, it is. Recent evidence supports meat's benefits for longevity and challenges old claims that it causes heart disease. If your health, religion, or ethics preclude dietary meats, vegetarian and vegan diets can be healthy with dairy and artificial supplements.

If, like me, you shy away from food guidelines for various reasons, you may be surprised by what I present here. A group of academics have raised concerns about prominent international food guidelines and their relation to good published science. This is important because in the absence of transparent evidence-based health metrics, people can make poor decisions about sources of nutrient-dense food. Children and the elderly are especially at risk from food that lacks the most important vitamins and minerals