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Life is not fair - and we learn this extremely early

The paperback of my book Breadwinners, is out this week - check out the beautiful new cover below - it’s a perfect and compact holiday read!

We all need to get stronger, here's how to start

All exercise helps you live longer, but strength training helps you live better – here's how you can get stronger.

Congratulated for doing the bare minimum

An excerpt from Breadwinners

How to get children to eat more vegetables

Small changes in how children experience food every day can have a lasting impact on what they eat.

Seven ways to trick yourself into eating better

I love eating healthily and I love psychology, so reporting on the piece below was a fascinating look into why we act so irrationally when it comes to the food choices we make.

Where there are winners, there are also losers

To state the obvious, where there are winners, there are also losers.

When children are active it helps them learn

Children are recommended to take part in at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day.

AI chatbots could be making us stupider

As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, we need to understand that this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.

I gave up sugar for six weeks

It got easier as time went on

How the additives in ultra-processed food play havoc inside our gut

I’ve recently been much more focussed on looking at the ingredients of everyday food.