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People urged to do at least 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week to lose weight

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Review of 116 clinical trials finds less than 30 minutes a day, five days a week only results in minor reductions

People who want to lose meaningful amounts of weight through exercise may need to devote more than two-and-a-half hours a week to aerobic training such as running, walking or cycling, researchers say.

The finding emerged from a review of 116 published clinical trials that explored the impact of physical exercise on weight loss, waist size and body fat. In total, the trials reported data for nearly 7,000 adults who were overweight or obese, meaning their body mass index (BMI) was more than 25.

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Cancer patient fears dying without justice as tribunal date repeatedly delayed

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

IT technician Joe Mezgebe arrived at unfair dismissal hearing to find no judge available – for the second time

A disabled man with prostate cancer has had his employment tribunal for unfair dismissal postponed the day before it was due to take place because a judge was not available – 13 months after exactly the same thing happened.

Joe Mezgebe, an IT technician, who first presented his claim against Christ’s College, Finchley academy in June 2021, has lost £15,300 in fees to his barrister as a result of the cancellations, and fears he may not live to see justice done.

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Family detentions will resume again for undocumented immigrants, says Trump ‘border czar’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Tom Homan also said that undocumented parents of US-born children will be deported, with or without their kids

US immigration authorities will resume the controversial policy of putting families with children in detention centres as part of a drive to deport undocumented immigrants, the incoming Trump administration’s ‘border czar’, Tom Homan, has said.

Homan, regarded as the “architect” of the widely vilified family separation policy applied to undocumented immigrants in the first Trump administration, also said officials would not hesitate to deport parents whose children were American citizens because they had been born in the US.

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Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s impact on the UK economy in 2025 – cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

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UK public electric car chargers rose by a third in 2024 to more than 70,000

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Number hits record level but rate of growth slows as installers face delays to government funding

The UK installed a record number of public electric car chargers during 2024, although the rate of growth slowed as installers contended with delays to government funding.

Public charger numbers rose by more than a third to reach 73,421 by 20 December, according to Zapmap, whose data is used by the government. That increase of 19,600 was nearly equivalent to the total number of chargers at the end of 2020.

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Chemtrail conspiracy theories: why RFK Jr is watching the skies

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Belief in a supposed US government plot linked to aircraft condensation trails has been boosted by confusion over proposals to geoengineer a response to the climate crisis

A conspiracy theory that airplanes are leaving nefarious “chemtrails” in their wake due to a sinister government plot has been given fresh impetus in the US amid a swirl of concerns and confusion about proposals to geoengineer a response to the climate crisis.

State legislation to ban what some lawmakers call chemtrails has been pushed forward in Tennessee and, most recently, Florida . Meanwhile, Robert F Kennedy, who has expressed interest in the conspiracy theory on social media and his podcast, is set to be at the heart of Donald Trump’s new administration following his nomination as health secretary .

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How Just Dance saved my Christmas | Dominik Diamond

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

With grown-up children scattered around the world, an inconvenient snowstorm and a vegan dinner gaffe, Christmas 2024 was looking bleak – so thank goodness for the ultimate party game

The older my kids get, the harder it is to keep them part of Christmas and the old traditions. Our youngest daughter is off travelling, which involves text message photos from Bangkok nightclubs with comments like, “Check out the size of THIS spliff, dude!” Middle son flies off to his girlfriend’s on Boxing Day. Oldest has added a festive shift of dog-sitting to her duties in the animal hospital and so she is around for just a few hours on Christmas Day. We’d also had a bit of a row on the 23rd and were not really speaking.

It was going to be tough to make Christmas ’24 a memorable one. But I had a plan. And that plan was Just Dance 2025.

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Boxing Day footfall down on UK high streets despite discounts

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Data may reflect shift in behaviour influenced by cost of living crisis or front-loading of spending

Fewer consumers have made the journey to high streets and shopping centres in search of Boxing Day discounts.

Footfall across UK retailers was down 9.4% as of midday, compared with Boxing Day in 2023, according to data from the retail tech experts MRI Software.

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Reform UK claims to be ‘real opposition’ with more members than Tories

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Nigel Farage heralds ‘historic moment’ as figure surpasses that of Conservatives when Kemi Badenoch took over

Reform UK has said it believes it now has more members than the Conservatives, surpassing 131,000 on Boxing Day.

The party said it had hit the milestone of 131,680, which is the number of members the Conservatives had when Kemi Badenoch won the leadership election in the autumn.