Fibremaxxing is everywhere, and most of us should eat more roughage, but your gut won’t thank you for overloading Fibre has replaced protein as TikTok health influencers’ macronutrient du jour, with “ fibremaxxers ” urging followers to pack as much roughage into their diets as possible. But is the sky really the limit? “In theory,” says Dr Emily Leeming, a dietitian at King’s College London and th...
Fibremaxxing is everywhere, and most of us should eat more roughage, but your gut won’t thank you for overloading Fibre has replaced protein as TikTok health influencers’ macronutrient du jour, with “ fibremaxxers ” urging followers to pack as much roughage into their diets as possible. But is the sky really the limit? “In theory,” says Dr Emily Leeming, a dietitian at King’s College London and the author of Fibre Power (out in May): our ancestors may have eaten up to 100g of fibre a day, but that’s far beyond what most modern guts can tolerate. Continue reading...
Pregnancy, contraception and menopause to be covered Groundbreaking changes an ‘incredibly welcome’ step Female athletes are to benefit from a major breakthrough in insurance cover for pregnancy, contraception, menopause and other health conditions, as part of the implementation of recommendations in the Carney review. The Women’s Football Taskforce commissioned Loughborough University – announce...
Pregnancy, contraception and menopause to be covered Groundbreaking changes an ‘incredibly welcome’ step Female athletes are to benefit from a major breakthrough in insurance cover for pregnancy, contraception, menopause and other health conditions, as part of the implementation of recommendations in the Carney review. The Women’s Football Taskforce commissioned Loughborough University – announced recently as the world’s No 1 university for sports-related subjects for a 10th consecutive year – to work with leading insurance providers and brokers to ensure female athletes are offered appropriate support in their insurance coverage. Continue reading...
Summer rugby league began in Paris in 1996 but for all its success, it has struggled with the business of expansion It began with an explosion of noise and a wave of excitement on the fringes of Paris in 1996, and as Super League celebrated its 30th anniversary weekend in the slightly more rugby league-centric surroundings of Leeds on Sunday, it felt an appropriate time not only to look back, but ...
Summer rugby league began in Paris in 1996 but for all its success, it has struggled with the business of expansion It began with an explosion of noise and a wave of excitement on the fringes of Paris in 1996, and as Super League celebrated its 30th anniversary weekend in the slightly more rugby league-centric surroundings of Leeds on Sunday, it felt an appropriate time not only to look back, but forwards, too. Amid all of the missed opportunities – more on those later – and boardroom frustration that have often dominated the past 30 years in the competition since its seismic switch from winter rugby to summer, one thing Super League has almost always managed to count upon as a consistent force is the entertainment on the field. Continue reading...
Gabriel Zakuani played over 400 EFL games and captained the Democratic Republic of the Congo – now he helps his country recruit talent like Aaron Wan-Bissaka A Costa Coffee in Purley was the unlikely venue for Gabriel Zakuani’s meeting in 2022 with Sébastien Desabre, the newly appointed manager of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but they were there on a secret mission. Aaron Wan-Bissak...
Gabriel Zakuani played over 400 EFL games and captained the Democratic Republic of the Congo – now he helps his country recruit talent like Aaron Wan-Bissaka A Costa Coffee in Purley was the unlikely venue for Gabriel Zakuani’s meeting in 2022 with Sébastien Desabre, the newly appointed manager of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but they were there on a secret mission. Aaron Wan-Bissaka was at Manchester Unitedand holding out for an England call-up after representing the under-21s. But Zakuani, who was raised in London but born in the Congolese capital Kinshasa and played for DRC at three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, had different plans. “The manager contacted me out of the blue and he was in London,” the former Peterborough defender says. “It was a very random trip – he just wanted to watch players that potentially could play for Congo. We met at Costa and less than an hour into the conversation I had rung up Aaron’s family and we were at Aaron’s house. We were having a conversation with his mum and dad about potentially getting him to change his nationality. It snowballed from there.” Continue reading...
A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order Every violation of international law invites the next. From Afghanistan to Iran, and across Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza and Venezuela, the line between what is permitted and what is prohibited has been steadily blurred by the complicit inaction of the UN security council. Wielding t...
A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order Every violation of international law invites the next. From Afghanistan to Iran, and across Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza and Venezuela, the line between what is permitted and what is prohibited has been steadily blurred by the complicit inaction of the UN security council. Wielding the veto as both a shield and a weapon, its permanent members too often act without grounding in the UN charter. They play with the fate of millions, leaving a trail of death and destruction. Until recent years, there was at least an attempt to give interventions a veneer of legitimacy through UN endorsement. Today, the open exercise of power no longer even tries to keep up appearances. The guardrails of multilateral institutions are becoming too narrow to contain hegemonic rivalries. Without multilateralism, we risk replacing an imperfect system of collective security with the brutal reality of widespread insecurity. When all constraints on the use of force are removed, chaos prevails. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil Continue reading...