Ella Nunn
Ella Nunn is a health and wellness writer at The Telegraph who focuses on turning medical research and expert advice into clear, practical guidance for everyday life. Her work centres on diet, lifestyle and long-term wellbeing, using familiar foods and small habit changes to illuminate how people can support heart health, manage weight and age well. She favours service-driven features built around lists, comparisons and rankings, including consumer pieces that work with nutrition experts to assess processed foods such as supermarket hams within a healthier eating pattern.
From Portfolio to Nordic: diets for heart and brain health
Nunn devotes a substantial part of her coverage to named dietary patterns, explaining how specific approaches affect cardiovascular and metabolic risk. She writes on the Portfolio diet, detailing how combining plant proteins, viscous fibre and healthy fats can slash cholesterol by around a third in a month, and she sets this alongside the Nordic diet’s links to heart and brain health.
These features unpack the underlying evidence while giving readers concrete shopping and cooking suggestions, translating academic findings into everyday meal structures. Her nutrition pieces often drill down into individual ingredients, demystifying the health impact of tofu and showing how to make it appealing, exploring the benefits of bone broth versus stock, and arguing for keeping wine, pasta and chocolate on the menu in January as part of a balanced way of eating.
Across this strand, she treats supermarket shelves and home cooking as the primary arena in which long-term health is won or lost, making consumer nutrition a clear sub-beat.
Lifestyle habits, weight management and ageing
Another recurring focus is the cumulative effect of daily habits on weight, biological ageing and longevity, often in ways that challenge common assumptions. In a feature on weight-loss mistakes, she highlights how extreme exercise regimes can increase belly fat, contrasting all-out endurance training with shorter, higher-intensity efforts and steady movement throughout the day. She extends this lens to ageing, examining the daily habits that make people “old before their time” and drawing lessons from Brazilian centenarians about how routine choices in activity, diet and social engagement connect to living beyond 100. Seasonal coverage, such as eight ways Christmas is healthier than many expect, further reframes familiar occasions around overlooked protective factors and risks, bringing nuance to narratives of indulgence. These stories typically use list formats and crisp subheadings, distilling expert insight into a small set of specific behaviours that readers can adjust.
Sleep, wellbeing and interconnected health
Nunn also treats sleep and broader wellbeing as central pillars of health, not just add-ons to diet and exercise. She profiles a doctor who argues that sleep is more important than both diet and physical activity, using the interview to reposition rest as a primary health intervention rather than a secondary wellness concern. In coverage of three “tiny lifestyle tweaks” that could add a year to life expectancy, she weaves together modest increases in sleep duration, minutes of moderate or vigorous exercise and daily vegetable intake into one integrated routine.
Her pieces on subtle ageing and daily habits show the same holistic approach, linking stress, recovery and self-care to physical outcomes and emphasising that health is produced by multiple interconnected behaviours rather than a single product or trend.
Training, newsroom range and health remit
Nunn trained on The Telegraph’s Editorial Graduate Programme, working across several desks, including sport and features, before moving into a dedicated health and wellness role. That rotation and her external reporting placements give her familiarity with both hard news and longer features, which she channels into health stories that combine clear explanatory framing with human examples, from US parenting movements to centenarian communities and everyday British routines. As a health writer on the masthead’s health desk, she covers conditions, fitness, nutrition, mental health and relationships, with a consistent emphasis on evidence-led, practical angles.
Her professional and social profiles present her as a permanent member of the health team following the graduate scheme, signalling ongoing investment in this beat and continuous development of her specialist coverage.
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