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You’ve just finished lunch. You’re physically full, yet your mind is already wandering towards the biscuit tin, leftover dessert or a packet of chips. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. The phenomenon, often referred to as “food noise,” is gaining attention among obesity specialists as more people realise that constant thoughts about food aren’t…

FILE: GLP-1 weight loss medications (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group

The once-a-day Wegovy weight loss pill is now available to buy privately from High Street and online pharmacies in the UK – but is not yet on the NHS

Hustle culture is built on the toxic lie that the human body is an unlimited ree that success is directly proportional to how much sleep we sacrifice, how many fires we personally extinguish, and how hard we can push through physical exhaustion

In the high and later Middle Ages, restoration of sanity to those who had lost their mind accounted for about 10% of recorded saintly miracles. But as Virginia Commonwealth University historian Leigh Ann Craig details in her latest book, “Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe,” the diagnoses behind these instances of…