How to do the perfect plank
With research showing doing a plank regularly can combat heart disease, here is how to go about it
Adopt eight lifestyle changes to add 20 years to your life, researchers say
People could live longer if they make changes such as managing stress and avoiding cigarettes, study finds
A new start after 60: ‘I became a powerlifter at 71 – and I’ve never felt so good about myself’
Peeps Nicol was newly widowed, ‘really unfit’, and struggling with MS when she first visited her local gym last year. Now she can deadlift 55kg and has begun competing
The breast surgeon who had breast cancer: ‘I used to say, “Don’t Google it.” First thing I did? Google it’
The transition from doctor to patient was hard – and when her cancer came back, she had to find new ways to help people
What if we let our kids eat what they want? A radical new take on the weight debate
Modern parenting is preoccupied by the idea of perfection, and that includes weight. Virginia Sole-Smith, author of a brave and radical new book, talks to Rebecca Seal about why our worth shouldn’t be measured by size
The IVF specialist who lost multiple pregnancies: ‘I had spent years making people’s dreams come true. It felt so unfair’
After her own experience of fertility treatment and pregnancy loss, the embryologist connects with patients on a far more emotional level
The 999 operator who had to give her own father CPR: ‘Before, I was just guessing how a caller felt. Now I know’
She had instructed more than 100 callers on how to do chest compressions, but when her own father had a cardiac arrest, the ambulance service call handler realised just how difficult it is
The pill put condoms out of style – now fashion designers are reviving a flaccid market
From Saint Laurent’s £5 specimen to a Diesel-Durex collab, spring/summer 2023 is the season of the aesthetically pleasing prophylactic
Weekend warriors: save your workouts till Saturday? No need to worry!
A five-year study has revealed that regular and weekend-only exercise give similar cardiovascular health benefits
Light and noise pollution ‘are neglected health hazards’, say peers
Lords committee calls for creation of advisory groups to tackle the pollutants, which may increase risk of heart disease and premature death