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The natural environment can make a real impact on your mood. Mountains can leave you feeling more optimistic, while the ocean can help boost your inspiration. A recent study at Goldsmiths University of London found that water is most effective at increasing positive emotions, such as happiness and inspiration.  Woodlands can help you forget your...

Keep it in the family! Counting the cost of coronavirus Food, glorious food! Open that window Smokers stubbing out Plants in your front garden Doing housework can help you live longer Why parking your car is getting more difficult Who does the allotment in your family? ** Editor: David Pickup, a solicitor, considers what happens...

Happy New Year! It’s good to begin a new year with hope, but few of us have left 2020 unscathed by the pandemic. For example, nearly half of us, 48 per cent, put on weight during lockdown.  (According to a recent survey by King’s College London and Ipsos MORI). Millions of us turned to alcohol...

Start children off on the way they should go….  Proverbs 22:6 Suppose you bought your child a football for Christmas. You all go outside to the garden, and in front of the family you show them how to score a goal. Then they have a go, but accidentally kick the new ball straight at your...

Did you eat too much over Christmas? Or is that your lifestyle choice, year-round? Almost half of the world’s population will be overweight by 2050, if current eating trends continue, according to recent research. That means that more than four billion people could be overweight in just 30 years’ time, with 1.5 billion of them...

Here is an easy resolution for the New Year: open your windows at home for ‘short sharp bursts’ of 10 to 15 minutes at a time, several times a day. The government’s public information campaign says that regular fresh air can cut the risk of Covid transmission by more than 70 per cent. So, either...

Smoking is on the decline. The number of people who successfully quit smoking last year was the highest in a decade, Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) reckons that more than a million people in the UK stopped smoking during the lockdown period. By the end of last year, smoking prevalence in England was at...

What’s in your front garden? If it is sparse, why not consider adding some plants this year?  Apparently, the presence of greenery can lower your stress levels as much as two months of mindfulness sessions. Plants can also help you to feel happier. A recent trial study by the Royal Horticultural Society found that people...

If you spend half an hour a day tidying the house, going up and down your stairs, and doing household chores, you are reducing the risk of an early death. So says recent guidance from the World Health Organisation, as it urges people to maintain regular moderate exercise on a daily basis, of up to...

Have you noticed that it is getting harder to park your car? And that when you finally do get parked, you can barely get the door open enough to squeeze out? It is not your fault.  Modern cars have grown so big that many drivers now have as little as 21cm of room to spare...

As men take on more domestic household chores, here may be a surprise result: more women are tackling the family allotment, and often taking the children along to help out. Nationally, half of all allotment holders are now women. This is up from two per cent in 1973, and 20 per cent in 2003. It...

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