Browsing: wellbeing

It hardly needs saying but I’ll say it anyway: we live in hard times. Things that some of us thought could and should have been solved…

Increased productivity and improved staff wellbeing were among the results of a year-long trial of the four-day week by the Scottish government.Two public bodies, South of…

I long to carpe diem! I have a busy life, a loving partner and good friends but, despite looking forward to holidays or events, when I…

Meg ElliottBBC ShropshireTanya GuptaBBC News, West MidlandsGetty ImagesKevin Braddock said the question for many was how to startA gym set up with a focus on the…

Sophia AllsoppBBC News, West of EnglandGloucestershire Community Rail PartnershipThe maps highlight four routes designed to boost mental health and encourage car-free explorationA set of illustrated walking…

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 and immediately had to have a single mastectomy. Told by the doctors I needed to wear very soft…

Hannah Clark got her first spray tan for her school prom and has never looked back. “I’m not proud of it, but I have used sunbeds,”…

I am a 50-year-old man. After a long-term disease, I had my inner ear removed, and then lost my job due to incapacity. I have hearing in…

Of all the hormones produced by the body, cortisol is the most misunderstood. It’s essential to any number of biological processes, and yet commonly typecast as…

What is a superfood? According to Italian scientists writing in the journal Frontiers in Food Science and Technology in February, the term was coined in the…