‘Life-saving’ bindis and iron fish: original health ideas for poorer countries

Healthcare products for developing world markets need to be simple, scalable and culturally appropriate to work

Greece records lowest life satisfaction rating of all OECD countries

For more than half of the 34 nations, life satisfaction levels have not returned to pre-economic crisis rates, an ONS report shows

Protein World’s ‘beach body ready’ ads do not objectify women, says watchdog

Controversial campaign accused of ‘body-shaming’ cleared in UK despite nearly 400 complaints, as it attracts protests in New York

The green diet: how to eat healthy and save the planet

As dieticians increasingly focus on the environment, they’re finding that what’s better for the earth is usually better for the body

Skinny jeans – more likely to make you look stupid than damage your health

The story about the dangers of tight jeans is merely a great opportunity to show photos of celebrities such as Kate Moss and Russell Brand wearing them

Festivals, flights and fulfilment: welcome to the post-digital world

However well-connected it makes us, cyberspace is lonely. That’s why, more and more, we are looking for live experiences

My first adventure in yoga: less cobra, more corpse

Stephen Moss marks International Yoga Day by trying his hand – and head – at hatha. Can he stop thinking about lunch long enough to let peace take hold?

Tobias Jones Q&A: ‘When you’ve got lice or nits in your hair, are you allowed to kill them?’

Tobias Jones talks about the communal refuge he runs, the criteria for allowing newcomers in and the effect of his faith

Fathers need support to spend more time on children and chores – report

Official measures such as paid paternity leave seen as vital to getting men more involved in parenting and easing burden shouldered by mothers

Mother loses bid to use dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to grandchild

High court judge acknowledges daughter’s desire for children but rules that she had not given the required consent before she died of bowel cancer aged 28