‘When you talk about ‘burning fat’, you’re talking about the oxidation of body fat; the breakdown of lipids into fatty acids to use them as fuel,” says Bethan Crouse, a performance nutritionist from Loughborough University. It’s the process that needs to occur for someone to lose weight or go through “body recomposition”; losing fat and … Read more
A trade war with China and suggestions Donald Trump will sack the head of the Federal Reserve have weighed heavily on the US stock market. It was already reeling after the president’s announcement of universal tariffs on the whole world, and, despite recovering some of its losses, remains down on the start of the year. … Read more
At the risk of pleasing a handful of the dog owning population and annoying the vast majority, we asked Graeme Hall, AKA The Dogfather, a dog trainer, presenter of TV’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly and author of Does My Dog Love Me? to suggest the best breeds for different contexts. “It would be really funny … Read more
Jeremy Vine dressed like a soldier, in red jacket and bearskin hat, in 1970 and 2025Jeremy Vine in 1970 and 2025. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Grooming: Neusa Neves at Arlington Artists using Lisa Eldridge. Archive photograph: courtesy of Jeremy Vine Born in 1965 in Epsom, Surrey, Jeremy Vine is a journalist and broadcaster. … Read more
The other night, I didn’t moisturise before bed. The baby had just woken and was crying for a feed. I didn’t want him to wake the toddler he shares a room with, and I couldn’t, in that intensely fraught moment, locate my Elizabeth Arden. We all find it hard, at times, to fit in self-care. … Read more
The lure of the marathon – arguably running’s most heralded achievement – has never been as strong. A record-breaking 840,000 people signed up for the London Marathon 2025 ballot. Big city marathons, such as Berlin and New York, keep setting benchmarks for the biggest crowds toeing the start line. If you’re among the runners getting … Read more
Ella, 27, London Occupation International development policy and communications Voting record Joined the Lib Dems aged 16, but when old enough to vote, consistently backed Labour until last year when she joined the Green party Amuse bouche Ella spent three weeks in Covid isolation on the 20th floor of a Bangkok hospital over Christmas 2021. “A depressing … Read more
Are there more pips in lemons than there used to be? That’s definitely my impression. What’s going on? Andrea Wilson, Manchester Send new questions to [email protected]. Readers reply I knew this would finally pay off. These are my diary records: 1975: 8.2 mppl (mean pips per lemon); 1976: 7.9; 1977: 8.3; 1978: 7.9; 1979: 8.0; … Read more
A few years ago, a friend asked me to be her “literary executor”. We were both, I think, tickled by the grandiose sound of it, as if I would be playing off competing bids from the Bodleian and the New York Public Library for her juvenilia and early drafts (she is not actually primarily a … Read more
I’ve been standing in a soggy field in Bristol for two hours and I’m starting to lose hope. I try to smile optimistically at the woman beside me, but she’s staring ahead at the metal detectorists slowly sweeping the ground like crime scene inspectors. Suddenly there’s a screech. A man drops to his knees and … Read more