As public concern about the health impacts of ultraprocessed foods grows, the wider issue of our unhealthy food environment is fast becoming an issue that health professionals and policymakers are keen to tackle. A recent series of community-based workshops led by the all-Ireland food safety and nutrition body, Safefood, found that the public wants much…

Our species, Homo sapiens, is the most geographically diverse of all primate species, permanently living on every continent except Antarctica. We have achieved this through our unprecedented ability to develop adaptations that increase the odds of surviving and producing in different environments. Highly localized adaptations, like those that enable people to survive at high altitude,…