Today is the day most people will give up their New Year”s resolutions – just nine days after they were made.

A new survey suggests three-quarters of people in Britain will buckle and break their plans to get fit, save money and lose weight.

Only one in four of 3,000 adults surveyed was confident of maintaining his or her resolve throughout January.

The survey by allabouthealth.org.uk revealed that physical and emotional well-being topped priority lists for 2012.

Seven out of 10 joined a gym or went for a jog in the last two weeks, the Daily Express reported.

People learn new languages more easily when words are accompanied by gestures, a new study has found.

For the new study, Manuela Macedonia and Thomas Knosche from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, enrolled 20 volunteers for a six-day course to learn Vimmi.

Vimmi is an artificial language designed to make study results easier to interpret, a media report said.

The volunteers were taught half of the material using spoken and written instructions and exercises, while the other half was taught with body movements to accompany each word, which the students were asked to act out.