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- Losing weight can be hard, there’s no doubt about it. While poor diet and lack of exercise are often the primary culprits in weight gain, recent research shows that eating a late dinner may also be to blame. The study (in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism) finds that people who eat a late dinner burn less fat overnight. They also have higher blood sugar levels than those who eat dinner earlier. Results show that fat burning is reduced by 10 percent and peak blood sugar levels are almost 20 percent higher in late dinner eaters compared to early dinner eaters. They also found that these effects are most pronounced in people who regularly go to bed earlier.

- It’s been a rough year for the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years. The unsurprising conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14 percent of American adults say they’re very hap