Bad fad – Ruby Tandoh on how clean eating turned toxic
The backlash against a ‘wellness’ diet is in full swing – and leading chefs and writers associated with it are doing their best to ditch the term. It’s time we called it what it is
Get Control of Sugar Now! Great Choices for Your Healthy Future by Paul McKenna – digested read
John Crace reduces the hypnotist’s self-help advice for the sweet-toothed to an even lower-calorie 800 words
Tim Ferriss: ‘I’m a coyote, a merry prankster, a go-between’
With a new book of tips from billionaires and ‘world-class performers’ out now, the American self-help guru opens up about what motivates him
JK Rowling and Joe Wicks powered 2016 surge in UK book sales
Helped by Harry Potter and the hit fitness guru, year on year takings to December rose sharply to £1.59bn
Ruby Wax: ‘I wanted to find a method to defuse my depression’
The comedian and mental-health campaigner explains how realising that everyone feels crazy led to writing A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled
Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt – digested read
John Crace brings Emily Witt’s investigation of sexual mores in the Google era to a swifter conclusion
The Case Against Sugar review – an unsweetened attack on diet myths
Gary Taubes’s latest assault on the ruinous effect of sugar on our lives and the promotion of fat-free diets is detailed and compelling
Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt – review
One woman’s quest for personal fulfilment proves a handy guide to sex in the internet age
Samer Nashef: ‘Understanding the healthcare system is a matter of life or death’
The cardiac specialist reveals how what really goes on behind the operating door inspired his book The Naked Surgeon
Medical Medium: Life-Changing Foods by Anthony William – digested read
John Crace boils down a miraculous food plan that promises to heal through a divine voice – and radishes
In Therapy: How Conversations with Psychotherapists Really Work by Susie Orbach – review
The dramatised format isn’t perfect but this companion piece to Orbach’s Radio 4 series offers a real insight into the ‘talking cure’
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 41 – How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
The original self-help manual on American life – with its influence stretching from the Great Depression to Donald Trump – has a lot to answer for
Susie Orbach: the poetry of therapy
Sigmund Freud’s ‘talking cure’ disrupted the doctor-patient relationship, and the back and forth of polite conversation; now the language of therapy has taken on a rhythm of its own
Richard Reed: ‘Will wackaging be my contribution to the species?’
The Innocent co-founder on climbing, Europe and his new book, in which he asks extraordinary people for advice on life
Deliciously Stella: the Instagram sensation serving up raw Kinder eggs on avo-toast
Nauseated by a world of nut butters and cauli pizzas, comedian Bella Younger began a fightback against the clean-eating fanatics