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Health & wellbeing

20 July 2024

  • A composite picture of Meera Sodha wearing a long-sleeved black top and holding her arms out while appearing to be sinking into a can of tomato soup

    I was a bestselling recipe writer - then burnout killed my appetite for food, and life. This is how I found my way back

    Cooking and eating was everything to the author and Guardian columnist. But when she found herself at breaking point, she had to go back to basics

19 July 2024

  • naturist Anne Nisbet walking naked in the countryside

    Dance, spend time in nature, and get naked! 17 body confidence tips from people who have it

  • Montage of sunbed melting

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    Sunbeds increase the risk of skin cancer, whatever TikTok tells you

18 July 2024

  • Illustration of someone doing a one-handed handstand, blindfolded, while juggling two balls.

    The power of proprioception: how to improve your ‘sixth sense’ – and become healthier and happier

    It is our physical sense of where we are in space and is essential to our quality of life as we age. Here are simple, everyday ways to test and train it

17 July 2024

  • Woman in labour using gas and air

    Nitrous oxide is no longer funny – it’s an environmental villain

  • a person shaves their face with blue razor and white shaving cream

    Don’t leave your razor in the shower – and eight other rules for shaving

  • Shoppers pass a Body Shop store in Canterbury, Kent

    Body Shop nears rescue deal with group led by British cosmetics tycoon

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Forget the 5am starts! Night owls like me possess the real secret of success

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Women's right to choose
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • The Guardian documentary
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

16 July 2024

  • Illustration of a woman holding a scalpel to her face

    Ask Ugly
    Ask Ugly: my mother is pressuring me to get plastic surgery. How do I deal with imperfection?

    Surgery isn’t a guarantee. Many who’ve gone under the knife to eliminate an ‘imperfection’ can attest to this

15 July 2024

  • a woman wears a sleeping mask in bed

    I dreamed my best friend was gossiping about me. Why did I feel hurt after?

  • A hand squeezing a stress-relieving ball

    How to build a better life
    Face your anger and let it out. It’s the only way to stay healthy

14 July 2024

  • Jenny Knight shot for OM

    Self and wellbeing
    How returning to competitive sport after 25 years taught me resilience – and the joy of new friends

    Jenny Knight, an author who was a teen world rowing champion, is rediscovering the benefits of exercise after joining a local netball team
  • George Harrison plays a toy trumpet, John Lennon holds a toy harp, Ringo Starr holds drum sticks and has a drum tied round his neck, and Paul McCartney plays the tambourine

    Put Sgt Pepper back in its sleeve – after 60 years, A Hard Day’s Night is still the Beatles at their joyful best

    Colin Fleming
    From its revolutionary first chord to its last bars, the Beatles’ overlooked third album transcends mere ‘pop’, says author Colin Fleming
  • Daisy Buchanan sitting on the beach in a red dress

    ‘I felt I had no right to grieve’: what happens if your sorrow doesn’t seem appropriate?

    When the author Daisy Buchanan lost a series of friends, she felt bereft – yet also that her feelings were misplaced. Here, she explores the notion of ‘disenfranchised grief’ – and learns how to let her sorrow in

13 July 2024

  • collage in form of medical bag made up of health supplements/tablets

    Five doctors on the supplements they swear by, from Vitamin D to lion’s mane

  • US vice-president Kamala Harris speaks with President Joe Biden on a White House balcony

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully? – podcast

12 July 2024

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • A man in a white coat passes a probe over a woman's abdomen and looks at a screen.

    ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

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