HEALTH: The Guardian recently cited nutrition professionals talking about what specific nutrients we should be aiming to consume at each age - but how do their recommendations stack up with the literature around the benefits of plant-based diets?

Vitamin B12 is essential for us to consume, but it is not naturally found in plant-based food. Here, we answer questions you may have on B12 and the vegan diet.

At the weekend, the Observer published a feature by ‘nutrition expert’ Joanna Blythman in which she made some odd health statements comparing fruits and vegetables less favourably to meat, eggs and dairy. Claire Hamlett deconstructs some of Blythman’s bizarre claims.

It doesn’t seem like news any more, but eating animal flesh is bad for you. Very bad. But as well as increasing the risk of certain types of cancer, a study out this week has found that eating red meat and poultry is also linked with higher occurrences of nine common non-cancerous diseases including heart disease, pneumonia and diabetes.

In our latest Surge video, co-director Ed Winters gives a succinct rundown of the many reasons why veganism is on the rise. Produced for EuroNews, the video goes through everything from preventing the next global pandemic, to tackling environmental destruction.