Most women give up dieting after an average of five weeks, two days and 43 minutes, according to a new UK research.
While one in seven (13 per cent) women in Britain stick to a diet for 13 weeks or more, nearly one in four (19 per cent) succumb to their favourite food cravings after a month.
Nearly one in ten women (8 per cent) lose the willpower to carry on dieting after just one week and 16 per cent give up after a fortnight, the Daily Mail reported.
Some irresistible treats which dieters most crave include biscuits, cakes, sweets and even Indian and Chinese meals, found the study.
The research among 1,000 women found that the average age for a first diet is 26 years.
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Contest to name Pluto’s two moons opens
New York: A contest to name the two moons of Pluto, discovered over the past two years, has been launched, with astronomers asking the public for suggestions.
The tiny satellites which currently go by the uninspired monikers P4 and P5 were spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
Pluto’s three other known moons — Charon, Nix and Hydra — are named for Greek mythological characters associated with the underworld. The short list of names that interested members of the public can vote on for the new moons follow that same pattern, researchers said. “The Greeks were great storytellers, and they have given us a colourful cast of characters to work with,” Mark Showalter, a senior research scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intellige-nce Institute in Mountain View, California, said in a statement.
— PTI