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In my teens I barely ate and felt too big even as a size 6. Now 15 million follow my deliciously indulgent baking recipes

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With her long glossy hair, gleaming white smile and pin-neat waist on show beneath a crop top, Eloise Head looks like any other millennial social media starlet.

She’s made a name for herself with her decadent recipes — calorie-laden creations like ‘chocolate fudge cake balls’ and ‘Nutella-stuffed cookie pie’ — and has racked up more than 15 million followers online, with her cooking videos (10 billion views and counting) leading to three lucrative book deals.

Her pastel-hued world is picture-perfect.

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Ancient primates’ unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit

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Soft fruits may have been the main dish on some ancient primate menus.

An analysis of hundreds of fossilized primate teeth from the Fayum Depression, a desert basin in Egypt, shows just a handful were fractured, researchers report December 13 in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology. So few chipped teeth suggests the animals more often feasted on easy-to-chew foods like fruits rather than hard objects like seeds or nuts that might inflict tooth damage.

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DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN: What happened when I ate ultra processed food? Rapid weight gain…

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Normally, I wouldn’t have Coco Pops for breakfast. But they seemed a good choice when I embarked on a month-long scientific experiment.

The idea was to make ultra-processed food (UPF) 80 per cent of my daily diet, and then see whether it caused any changes in my body — such as increased inflammation or weight gain.

As I opened the cereal packet, my three-year-old daughter Lyra said: ‘Is it for me?’ No, I told her — she was having porridge.

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