Efforts to increase diversity in clinical trials might depend on achieving more diversity among those conducting the studies.

How are you doing on your promises to eat right, exercise regularly and stop drinking? If you are already falling short, you aren’t alone. In fact, Jan. 17 was “Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day.”

New research in the Journal of Nutrition—albeit funded by the Hass Avocado Board—suggests eating the fruit daily—yes, it is a fruit—can greatly improve gut health.

British scientists said that although initial analyses suggested that the strain, first identified in September, did not cause more severe disease, several more recent ones suggest it might.