Tesco cuts sugar in own-brand drinks to avoid sugar tax
Government hails supermarket’s move to reformulate all of its own-label soft drinks, saying it shows pressure is working
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 41 – How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)
The original self-help manual on American life – with its influence stretching from the Great Depression to Donald Trump – has a lot to answer for
Men much less likely to seek mental health help than women
Huge survey shows gender gap and the need for ‘cultural shift’ says charity chief
A moment that changed me: being abused on the street about my weight
It’s happened before and it will happen again – to me and other fat people. The difference now is that I don’t want pity from people, I want anger
Health anxiety may increase risk of heart disease, research finds
Study suggests ‘worried well’ who fret over non-existent illnesses are 70% more likely to develop heart diseases
Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking
Health and fitness monitoring devices promise a future of good health and pre-emptive diagnosis. Not to mention reduced (for some) insurance premiums. So what connects our new obsession with personal productivity with the dogma of Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin?
French mothers don’t suffer from bladder incontinence. And nor should you
Unlike Nadia Sawalha, I am a stranger to urinary accidents, even after four vaginal births – because I’ve had my pelvic floor electronically re-educated
And breathe: the computer games helping kids relax
Emotionally responsive games where the calmest contestant wins are being developed for young people with their mental health
Susie Orbach: the poetry of therapy
Sigmund Freud’s ‘talking cure’ disrupted the doctor-patient relationship, and the back and forth of polite conversation; now the language of therapy has taken on a rhythm of its own
NHS to offer safer Down’s syndrome test to pregnant women
Non-invasive prenatal test allows screening without risk of miscarriage but critics fear it could lead to an increase in terminations