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Diners who gobble down their food quickly are five times more likely to develop symptoms which raise their risk of a heart attack. Research by Japanese scientists has found that people who eat slowly are less likely to gain weight or develop metabolic syndrome — the name for problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. The researchers found that just 2.3 per cent of the slow eaters developed metabolic syndrome, compared with 6.5 per cent of medium-speed eaters, and 11.6 per cent of the fast eaters.The research was presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2017.

The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before the end of the century, a new study says. Study author Kerry Emanuel, a meteorology professor and hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that what was once an extremely rare event — 508mm of rain over a large area of Texas — could soon be almost common. The study is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.