Weight loss

Did you know that most of the cells that make up your body aren’t human at all? Some of them are microbial… and when you fast with the LIFE Fasting Tracker app, they fast too.

Have you ever waited for a child to finish a meal and found yourself wishing they would eat just a bit quicker? Watching children eat can sometimes feel like watching molasses flow from a jar into your plate of biscuits. But there is one lesson we can take from how children eat that could help many of us better manage our weight, metabolic health and relationship with food: Eat more slowly.

We know a lot about food but little about the food choices that affect the nation’s health. Researchers have begun to devise experiments to find out why we choose a chocolate bar over an apple – and whether ‘swaps’ and ‘nudges’ are effective.