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Is it ever right to publicly speculate about an individual's health? And just how complicit are we, the public, when it comes to the despicable art of body snarking whereby we brutally critique the female form?
I would like to begin with a big, fat disclaimer: I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a football fan. The entirety of my football knowledge i...
I now have had breast cancer twice in my life.The first was in 1994 when I was in my 30s and the second time in May this year. But there is a twist this time - I work as the Director of Breakthrough Breast Cancer in Scotland.
So, yes, the bump has arrived. The mild morning sickness I was experiencing is all but gone (though I confess I just had a moment of quease and had to neck a packet of Worcester sauce flavour French Fries. They saw off that nauseous bad boy;))
I hit 40 and hubby Bill and our girls were growing up nicely, I thought, "right, now is my time." I just so happened to discover raw chocolate making and being a chocoholic my whole life I couldn't believe how easy and creative it was to make my own chocolate.
Your hair, and in fact, all parts of your body can only be made up of the things that you eat. So it makes sense that the quality of the hair on your head depends on the amount of nutrients present in your body, which you get originally from your diet.
Those of us working in family law have found our eyes watering at the size of a number divorce settlements awarded by London's courts in recent years, payouts which have earned the UK the status of 'the world's divorce capital'.
Having a child who suffers from ADHD or Aspergers is a complex and difficult thing. On the one hand it requires patience and as a parent, you have to devote a great deal of time to teaching that child things that may come naturally to others. On the other, it gives a rare insight into a beautiful mind and opens your eyes to a whole new perspective.
What is a fad diet? I only asked because a few commentators have suggested that gluten-free is the latest in a long line of fad diets - similar to the low carb Atkins Diet craze of a few years back, or the hunter-gatherer diet.
Never mind the X Factor, the UK is gripped by the 'Gok Factor'.
As the due date of my baby draws ever closer, I've been thinking about doing a paediatric first aid course. I'm affected by those adverts on TV where ...
Our society, to its detriment, is obsessed with the diet as a solution to being overweight. But even people who accept that dieting is not the way to lose weight are still affected by the underlying principle behind a diet, "no pain, no gain.'
This isn't going to be a hugely depressing account of what it's like to have an eating disorder, or a request for pity and understanding, but I hope it will be an insight in to something people who haven't suffered from it rarely understand fully.
In case middle class mothers didn't have enough insecurity about the quality of their parenting, a childcare expert has warned this week that the propensity to dedicate our energy, time and money giving them stimulation in the form of classes and activities could be counter-productive to their development.
We tend to think of arousal as a precursor to sex. But if we reframe arousal as a state of the body to be enjoyed in and of itself, we can get more pleasure from it.
After your holiday there is always much to do when you return. Whether it will be bills to pay, overtime to catch up on or getting stuck into the housework again.
