A real head banger

We owe an incalculable debt to scientists but they could have done with a crash course in tact before laying their latest, inevitably disempowering, tranche of findings on us: intermittent fasting could kill you, they now tell us in their pitiless way.

- Jane Clifton

Also, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) could make you fatter. These are conclusions from two peer-reviewed trials, their methodology disclosed and above board.

They give two rude fingers to other reputable trials over umpteen years that hailed fasting and HIIT as life-saving. Does science ever say sorry? Science launched all that tummy rumbling and circuit exhaustion, with their attendant apps and smuggery. But now it's all yeah, nah.

Fortunately though also infuriatingly-closer reading of these new findings shows they're inconclusive because the studies' parameters were too limited to establish cause and effect.