It could take 12 hours of walking to burn off your Christmas dinner
On Christmas day alone, it’s estimated that people consume around 6,000 calories.
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Don’t chuck out the classics to personalise your child’s library
Be it personalised gifts, personalised cosmetics services or personalised shopping recommendations, we have become the centre of the products we use like never before. And the trend is now more and more…
What lonely snails can tell us about the effects of stress on memory
New research reveals how stress could alter our perceptions about which animals are ‘smart’.
Does the food children eat for breakfast fuel exam grades?
Give your children bran for breakfast and they could concentrate better at school.
What the budget got wrong about the NHS and prevention
Perhaps the UK should adopt the economic principle of ‘polluter pays’.
Do you get diabetes from eating too much sugar?
Nutrition expert – sugar does not cause type 2 diabetes on its own.
Trypophobia: the fear of holes driven by the internet – and mathematics
Warning: gross but highly sharable pictures of holes that might fill you with disgust.
Banning packed lunches is a step too far
The government wants to improve children’s diets by banning packed lunches and barring children from leaving school at lunchtime to prevent them from buying unhealthy food. School lunches are healthier…
Explainer: how does the weather affect the economy?
Ice cream and BBQ sales may rise when the weather’s good, but it’s mostly at the expense of other, cold weather, items.
At chocolate time, we’ve discovered what the brands that score best on child labour and the environment have in common
The firms that do worst on the environment and human slavery in the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard are those whose mission statements extend to little more than making chocolate.
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