1 week ago 'Soon, no one will be on Mounjaro': Slimmers stampede to get hold of experimental 'Godzilla' weight loss jab that burns fat faster than ever

Early trials of the drug, retatrutide, have already shown it can help people shed a quarter of their body weight in under a year-almost twice as effective as Ozempic.

Events

2 w. ago New figures show Dumfries and Galloway has oldest population in Scotland

Data from National Records of Scotland show more than a quarter of people living in the region are over the age of 65.

Culture

3 w. ago Almost three quarters of people ignore calorie labels when ordering takeaways – poll

77% of people didn’t even realise that any calorie information was available during their most recent online takeaway purchase

Politics

3 w. ago Calorie labels rarely influence takeaway choices, survey suggests

A survey of adults in England found the majority did not notice any calorie information during their most recent online takeaway purchase.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling

US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the USThe Trump administration’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid fears it threatens Arctic wildlife, undermines the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives and imperils one of the fastest-warming ecosystems on Earth.More than a quarter of a million people have responded to the 2 June proposal from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to roll back protections on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the largest tract of public land in the US. Continue reading...

Society

4 w. ago Why walking further and faster could cut your risk of heart attack and stroke

It’s estimated that just over a quarter adults in the UK, around 14.4 million people, have high blood pressure increasing their risk of heart problems and stroke

Events