23 Sep, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
This is what happens to your body if you get less than six hours of sleep a night
We’re a sleep deprived nation (Picture: Getty Images) Queen Rihanna once said that she only gets three or four hours sleep a night, while Sydney Sweeney claims that she can cope on just two. Meanwhile, Madonna once told Rolling Stone that she struggles with insomnia, and can ‘get through the day’ on six. According to […]
22 Sep, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Baby, 1, has deadly health issue so rare it doesn’t even have a name
Jack Thomas lives with an ultra-rare condition that has no name or no cure (Picture: Jam Press) A mother says that her baby has a health condition so rare that it doesn’t even have a name. Amanda Thomas, 35, from Glamorgan in Wales, is the mother to one-year-old Jack, who lives with a condition that […]
A dentist has explained why we wake up with weird tastes in our mouths (Picture: Getty Images) For many of us, the moment we first wake up in the morning isn’t pretty -from messy bed head to drool on our chin and a gross taste in our mouth. But why is it that we get […]
Five years on from his initial Covid diagnosis, Alex’s life is still severely impacted by the illness (Picture: Alex Sprackland) When Alex Sprackland caught Covid-19 in March 2020, he thought he’d be back to normal in no time. Yet, five years on, the 34-year-old still grapples with the severe, life-limiting effects of the infection. ‘I […]
Georgie Swallow was 26 when she was diagnosed with cancer (Picture: Caters) For around a year, my skin was so itchy I would scratch it until I bled – even then, I never managed to satisfy the feeling, and it would often keep me awake at night. It never crossed my mind that it could be […]
18 Sep, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
How long you should be able to stand on one leg, according to your age
It can be an indicator of how well you’re ageing (Picture: Getty Images) Unless you’re a budding yogi, it’s not often that you stand on one leg. After all, you’re not a flamingo. But this quick minute(ish) activity can actually reveal a lot about your physical health. It’s no secret that our bodies change as […]
16 Sep, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Champion athlete Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill on how a solid plan is ‘essential’ to surviving back-to-school chaos
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill has teamed up with Weetabix to help you get the most out of every day (Picture: Peter Powell for Weetabix) Autumn – it’s a busy time. The kids are going back to school and need new kits, and things are busier than ever at work. But with the summer holidays gone, and […]
Is it possible to come back to life? (Picture: Getty Images) Ray Catania was 20 when he died in a gas leak that filled his room and set fire to his parents’ home as he slept. ‘All night long, the gas was rising into my bedroom, and I was breathing it in,’ Ray, now 57, […]
14 Sep, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
‘Toe touchers’ are plaguing UK swimming pools — but some say it’s ‘standard’
If you don’t like your feet being touched, you might want to avoid certain serious swimmers (Picture: Getty Images) Relaxing into a breaststroke in the slow lane at my local pool, I noticed the swimmer behind me was getting impatient. For a minute, I thought I’d mistakenly plonked myself in a faster lane by accident, […]
I found out I had a 6cm tumour on my right kidney (Picture: Umesh Patel) The urologist looked me in the eye and uttered: ‘We’ve found something on your kidney that’s going to need treatment.’ My brain scrambled. ‘Is it cancer?’ I asked, already breaking down. I needed my wife, Ellen because I knew I couldn’t handle […]