A new ‘smart diet’ which uses a mobile app and wearable trackers could help slimmers lose a stone in just three months, research suggests. The study of 10,000 people suggests the weight loss regime, known as ‘Second Nature’, could be far more successful than traditional slimming groups. Users receive a pedometer and ‘smart scales’, which … Read more
From Phoebe Waller-Bridge on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to Ed Miliband’s Reasons To Be Cheerful and Poetry Unbound, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 15 February 2020 How To Fail With Elizabeth Day For one hour each week, the journalist Elizabeth Day … Read more
Do you try a quick ‘sniff test’ on food in your fridge that’s past its ‘Use-By’ date before deciding whether or not to go ahead and eat it? If so, you’re far from alone. One in four of us would happily eat out-of-date chicken if it still smelled OK, according to new research. The survey … Read more
From Anne Enright’s potent Actress to the skilful latest by Petina Gappah and an impressive debut from Rosanna Amaka, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 Actress Anne Enright … Read more
From Victoria Beckham on As Me to Americast with Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis and White Wine Question Time, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 As Me Activist Sinead Burke was the first person with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, to … Read more
From Joanna Trollope’s classy Mum & Dad to Apeirogon by Colum McCann and Aravind Adiga’s gripping Amnesty, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Max Davidson Published: 22:02 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 22 February 2020 Mum & Dad Joanna Trollope … Read more
From No Such Thing As A Fish to Marlon And Jake Read Dead People, The Assassination and The Allusionist, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 29 February 2020 No Such Thing As A Fish This blockbuster podcast began as a spin-off to QI. Every … Read more
From Hilary Mantel’s cracking The Mirror & The Light to a funny debut by Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 The Mirror … Read more
A massive breakthrough in the search for a cure for diabetes has been made by researchers who have successfully cured diabetes in mice for the first time using converted human cells to keep the disease at bay. The human stem cell strategy functionally cured the disease in mice for at least nine months and in … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers have told athletes to train as … Read more