The key to keeping new year resolutions? Don’t make them in the first place
Setting endless goals can lead to a downward spiral. Stop wasting your life resolving to improve yourself and you might just find you enjoy it more
Failure to stem rising cost of formula in UK putting babies at risk, say experts
Leading doctors and charities urge children’s health minister to take action to support struggling families
How we met after 60: ‘You trust that instant chemistry when you get to 65’
Alexia and Joel, both 80, met in a cafe – within a week they had arranged to live together. A decade later they still do, splitting their time between California and Colorado
How to defuse an argument: prepare, repair or ‘let them yell it out’
A negotiator, a psychologist, a wedding planner, a conflict mediator and a maitre d’ share their hard-earned techniques for keeping the peace at Christmas
Don’t overdo alcohol – or arguments: nine ways to stay healthy and happy this Christmas
Between family feuds, open flames and warmed-up leftovers, the yuletide period can be perilous. Here’s how to keep yourself in one piece
The big idea: should we go to more parties?
Talking to strangers can be intimidating, but the social whirl has science on its side
‘A pile of dirt makes me drool’: why some people crave and eat inedible things
From chalk to rubbers and clay, there are a variety of reasons why those with pica syndrome yearn to eat non-foodstuffs. But is this dangerous?
Should I worry about my gut microbiome?
It’s often overlooked and left to its own devices, but should you listen to your gut more, or is it listening to you? Here’s what the science says
My drag persona gave me a way to exist in the world – and a route back to the family I’d lost
For years, Ginger Johnson imagined life as a tragedy playing out – until she decided to reframe it as a comedy
‘Millions of women are suffering who don’t have to’: why it’s time to end the misery of UTIs
Urinary tract infections have been a cause of chronic distress for generations of menopausal women. Campaigning journalist Kate Muir argues the problem could be halved if an alternative treatment to antibiotics is better understood. So why isn’t more being done?