Month: April 2022

When hunger strikes, it can be hard to resist shoveling anything and everything into your mouth, at speed. But the problem comes with telling when enough is enough. As babies, we were primed to bat food away when full. But as adults, it’s trickier. We grown-ups not only eat food for fuel, but let’s be honest, pleasure and comfort are key driving forces. As a result, it’s harder to gauge when we are full, leading us to overeat and in some cases, gain weight. But experts have revealed that you can use a simple tool that can stop you from over-fuelling yourself and might even help you lose weight. By visualizing a “hunger scale” experts at MyFitnessPal said you can start to understand what your hunger cues really mean. They say you should imagine your...

Sixty percent of Americans, including 75 percent of children, had been infected with the coronavirus by February, federal health officials reported on Tuesday — another remarkable milestone in a pandemic that continues to confound expectations. The highly contagious Omicron variant was responsible for much of the toll. In December 2021, as the variant began spreading, only half as many people had antibodies indicating prior infection, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the numbers came as a shock to many Americans, some scientists said they had expected the figures to be even higher, given the contagious variants that have marched through the nation over the past two years. There may be good news in the data, some experts said. A gain in ...