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Lindsay bailey, dietician and acrin children's hospital is here with us now. She shares five easy things you can do to kick things off in the new year. We used to think that it was down to how much we ate. Now we know it's all about what we eat as well as our jeans.

New year resolutions often include eating more healthily, doing exercise and trying to shift some of the extra weight put on over Christmas. Yet research suggests the vast majority of people who do lose weight ultimately end up putting nearly all of it back on. So why is it so difficult? Madeleine Finlay speaks to health journalist and ex-neuroscientist David Cox on the science of metabolism, and what it means for our health. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod