One of the reasons people may undervalue diet and lifestyle changes is an overconfidence in the ability of pills and procedures to prevent disease. For example, people tend to wildly overestimate the power of things like mammograms and colonoscopies to prevent deaths from breast and bowel cancer, or the power of drugs like Fosamax to […]

Now, admittedly, the experts don't agree 100 percent on the details of what the perfect human diet looks like. With doctors such as Dean Ornish, who has successfully cured type 2 diabetes with a vegan diet, veganism has gained popularity in recent years.

Or do you just fancy looking a bit more like Glynis Barber, actress, anti-ageing guru and wife to the delectable Michael Brandon, with whom she starred in that Eighties classic TV show Dempsey and Makepeace. Barber is the co-author of a … Food is …