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This is a bit of a grey area, says Bethan Crouse, a performance nutritionist at Loughborough University. She wouldn’t advise the athletes she works with to completely cut out carbohydrates – foods such as bread, grains, potatoes and sweets. “However,” she says, “reducing carbohydrate intake can be beneficial for weight loss, if we can moderate total energy intake.” Weight loss comes down …

One challenge of dieting is maintaining healthy eating habits, avoiding the so-called ‘yo-yo dieting’ effect. Now a new study suggests that effect might be closely linked to the bacteria living in our guts. A team led by researchers from the University of Rennes and Paris-Saclay University in France ran a series of experiments on mice, measuring their reactions to rotating …