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The techniques with the best evidence are unglamorous and mostly involve spending less time in bed, not more. That is the part people refuse to believ...
Continue Reading : How to Fall Asleep Faster Without Medication
Rapid loss is easier to achieve and harder to keep. The rate that holds is the one slow enough that you are still doing it in a year. What to remember...
Continue Reading : Why Slow Weight Loss Is the Kind That Lasts
UK adults are advised to eat 30g of fibre a day. Most manage about 20g. Closing that gap is mostly a matter of swaps rather than a new way of eating....
Continue Reading : The Simple Way to Eat More Fibre Without Changing Your Diet
Ten thousand was a pedometer marketing slogan from 1960s Japan. The research that has caught up since points somewhere lower, and the first few thousa...
Continue Reading : How Many Steps a Day Actually Matters
A half-life of around five hours means an afternoon coffee is still measurably present at midnight. Sleeping through it is not the same as being unaff...
Continue Reading : What Caffeine Really Does to Your Sleep
Three quarters of the salt most people eat was added before they bought the food. The salt cellar is the wrong place to start. What to remember UK adu...
Continue Reading : Cutting Salt Without Losing Flavour
Peak bone mass is reached around your late twenties and the decline accelerates sharply at menopause. The years in between are when the useful work ge...
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The effect is larger than you would expect for something free, and it is not only the exercise doing the work. Light, environment and rhythm each cont...
Continue Reading : Why Walking Outdoors Helps Your Mood
You cannot make a night shift biologically neutral. You can make the recovery faster and the damage smaller, and the levers are light, timing and dark...
Continue Reading : Fixing Your Sleep Schedule After Shift Work
The phrase has gone from a research classification to a supermarket insult in about five years. It describes how a food was made, not how bad it is, a...
Continue Reading : Ultra-Processed Food: What the Term Actually Covers
An hour at the gym does not cancel nine hours in a chair, but the gap is smaller than the headlines suggested. What matters most is breaking the sitti...
Continue Reading : Sitting All Day: What Actually Offsets It
It is not mainly the blue light. It is that the content is engineered to hold attention, and attention held at 11pm is attention not available for win...
Continue Reading : Why Your Phone Makes Anxiety Worse in the Evening
A short early-afternoon nap improves alertness measurably. A long late one eats into the sleep pressure you need that night, which is why some people...
Continue Reading : Naps: How Long, and When They Backfire
One restaurant meal will not undo a month. The problem is never the meal itself, it is the four days of "I have ruined it anyway" that some people put...
Continue Reading : Eating Out Without Losing the Plot
The point is not the cooking. It is removing the decision at midday, when you are hungry, busy and standing near a bakery. What to remember Cook compo...
Continue Reading : Batch-Cooking a Week of Lunches in an Hour