Like many people, Lucy Holden doesn’t want to ditch the booze completely, but she wouldn’t mind cutting down. Can a lesson in ‘sober’ wine-drinking help her get through the month?

As the new year kicks off, so do new fitness regimes – but new research led by Professor Tim Spector, of the Zoe health app, shows that waist size is a better guide to your health than your BMI. Together with a team of experts, he has created a three-part ‘reduce your waist, improve your health’ plan for The Independent, to help you trim your figure and lower your risk of diabetes, heart disease and strokes

When Melanie Rickey gave up drinking it didn’t stop her ‘washing machine brain’ from turning. It was only after she wrote about it for this newspaper that someone pointed out that something else might be going on. Here’s what happened next...