Chronic back pain is on the rise – in part because the way we treat it often does more harm than good. It’s time to think differently about our aches. One in four adults are experiencing it right now, and 90 per cent of people having back pain at least once in their life. Nearly a …
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We’ve heard about sweatshop factory collapses and fires in countries like Bangladesh. We’ve seen stories about labour conditions abroad and we should by now be aware that the people who make our clothes earn so little they can barely, if at all, afford to feed their families,. On top of that people are dying slowly …
Apparently, an increasing number of men want joy, laughter and happiness in a girlfriend – and no drama. They appear to be looking for a partner who never gets angry, afraid or sad, who never worries about her family, money or her job, never complains, and by extension, gives the impression she will be quite …
I owe the readers an apology. I have spent far too much time alluding to politics on this blog, something Epicurus would tut-tut about were he with us and had a computer. I live between the US and the UK, both unhappy places, and have allowed myself ( I like to think for patriotic reasons) …
People with optimistic outlooks tend to live longer than their more negative peers, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have found. The study drew on data from two long-running studies of Americans aged over 60: one of 1,500 male war veterans, and one of 70,000 female nurses. At the start of both, the participants …
