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Do your holiday plans involve travelling from west to east this year? Then prepare yourself for some sleep disruption, while your body adjusts. A recent study at the Centre of Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore has found that travelling east can really impede your body’s natural...

On the one hand, bananas offer good things. They count as one of your five a day, carry only about 90 calories, and are packed with the essential mineral potassium (good in lowering blood pressure.) But they are not perfect… So, here are some pros and cons of bananas: Pro:  High in potassium, good for...

Counting steps has, for many of us, become a part of our lives. We feel triumphant when we hit 10,000, and guilty when we notch up less than 2,000 a day. But daily steps, which are really no more than regular daily exercise, are not just a gimmick. Medical research has found that your daily...

A recent study has found that as many as one in three teenage girls do NOT feel safe in school, which is a significant increase since lockdown. What is called ‘declining emotional engagement’ among secondary school girls has become a ‘pressing issue’ for the English school system, says a report carried out by the International...

 Two thirds of all Gen Z drivers (aged 18-to-28 years old) have asked their parents or friends to park their car for them.  96% admit they are anxious about parallel or reverse parking. This compares to 28 per cent of Generation X (aged 45 to 60) who have asked for help in parking, and 14...

Ninevah Mental Health Awareness Week – 12th – 18th May 2025 Deaf Awareness Week – 5th to 11th May Why you should draw your curtains at night (especially if you live in the country) Sleeplessness is catching An unexpected way to cut violent crime Why you need a holiday ** Editor: David Pickup, a solicitor considers...

He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.” (Jonah 4:2) I...

In May we observe Mental Health Week, at a time when sadly many of us, as a nation, are struggling. Roughly one in four of us now experience a mental health problem every year. According to the Health Foundation, for young people aged 10–24 a staggering 45% are experiencing mental health disorders. While the medical...

Deafness is more common than you might think. According to the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), one in three adults in the UK are in some way deaf. That means that more than 18 million adults in the UK have some degree of hearing loss or tinnitus. And it gets worse. Over half...

Most of us draw our curtains at night, in order to ensure privacy. But there is another very valid reason: to help protect local wildlife. It seems that insects who live in the countryside are very susceptible to bright lights, which can badly disrupt their overall health and general behaviour. As one scientist explained: “We...

You probably already know this: when your partner can’t sleep, it is very likely that you won’t be able to, either. A recent study from the University of East Anglia has found that sleep problems are contagious. The study looked at the impact of workplace bullying on sleep, and it found that not only does...

How to get children to behave better? Feed them better. It seems that providing children with healthy diets and regular nutritional supplements can help reduce anti-social behaviour. The charity Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) puts it this way: improving the nutritional diets of a child is ‘low cost’, but ‘likely to have a high impact on...