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Guru welcomes the news that residents of the UK are outliving our cousins across the pond for the first time. However, the same story also points out that young Brits are getting fatter and fatter by the minute (by the minute steak more like) and that soon we'll be outgunning the 'fattest nation in the world' - ie, America - and be sitting...

Not content with taking on the world's tyrants, boldly going where no-one else will dare and generally doing a lot of shooting away from these shores, the British Military has decided expand the fight... to its own inner demons. But the news that the government has funded a 24-hour helpline for military personnel suffering from 'mental issues'...

2011 dawned, and Guru yawned, and an idea was spawned. Luckily, Yours Truly threw that idea to one side and set to news gathering, glancing quickly at his £2,011 Cartier timepiece while struggling to lift his other arm off the table. The reason for his inability to wag a finger at the world and check on how late he was, thus being in a position to claim...

Guru has always appreciated a nice pair of lungs. So the news that older workers are not up to scratch on the breathing front , comes as no surprise to Yours Truly. After all, older workers spend much more time gassing on about which pills they're taking and how rude their doctor was the last time they visited (which is usually a couple of hours...

Ga de bay ye? In the Telegaph Philip Johnson has been musing on how the Prime Minister will go about measuring happiness . And today, David 'just call me Dave' Cameron has officially launched his 'happiness index' - although, technically, he's renamed it the 'wellbeing' index to show solidarity with his New Labour roots Read...

News reaches Yours Truly that global mega-employer McDonald's has been ordered to pay compensation to a former manager in Brazil due to the fact that he put on four stones while working at one of the company's fast food outlets. The former employee claimed he was 'forced' to eat loads of burger-related comestibles while on duty and even...

Overweight and unemployed? Help is now at hand for those suffering from this particular depressing double whammy. National Slimming Clinics is offering to help five 'active' job seekers by putting them on a weight loss programme aiming to get them "back on their feet". Presumably if these people were 'active' they would be...

A curious story that went somewhat under-reported this week. A community worker sacked for looking at porn in front of children has won his job back and a £23,000 payout after blaming his actions on diabetes. Alistair Dickson said he was not aware he had logged on to the porn site as he had a hypoglycemic episode when the children were being shown around...