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Health & fitness

  • Anna Tims with her diaries at her desk.

    I’ve written a diary every day since I was 14. What does that say about me?

  • Eva Wiseman

    An open letter to the microplastics living in my body

    Eva Wiseman
  • Ella and Richard

    This is how we do it: ‘We did wonder whether sex at our advanced age would be difficult – but it’s been amazing’

    Ella and Richard almost gave up on sex after she had health problems – but a clever solution helped them rediscover their intimacy
  • The Big Christmas Gift Guide

    242 best Christmas gifts for 2024: perfect present ideas chosen by the experts

  • Illustration of a man and woman in bed together, divided by a red line

    My boyfriend finds menstruation unappealing – and I feel rejected every month

  • Close-up of a woman's green eye

    Keratopigmentation: why is eyeball tattooing on the rise?

  • Illustration of an exhausted woman yawning.

    Are you tired all the time? Me too – but I think I’ve worked out why

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Advice

  • Unsympathetic woman

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I have spent my life looking after my depressive, controlling mum – can I move on?

  • Illustration of a man and woman in bed together, divided by a red line

    Sexual healing
    My boyfriend finds menstruation unappealing – and I feel rejected every month

  • planting a tree

    Ask Philippa
    The climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair

  • Enterprise Car Club vehicle

    Consumer champions
    Enterprise Car Club fined me for someone else’s unpaid fuel

Running & cycling

  • New Forest National park cycling along Rhinefield Ornamental Drive beside the Tall Trees Trail, Brockenhurst,Hampshire,England,UK<br>2T0A1PW New Forest National park cycling along Rhinefield Ornamental Drive beside the Tall Trees Trail, Brockenhurst,Hampshire,England,UK

    All scenery and no sweat: an e-biking adventure in the New Forest

  • Businessman cycling in Amsterdam.

    Dutch office workers ditch smart shoes for ‘versneakering’ in trainers

  • A composite of pictures of a neon cycling glove, pink, purple, orange and black glasses and a multitool all held by illustrated hands

    The best Christmas gifts for cyclists, from warm cycling gloves and socks to a portable headlamp

  • A composite of pictures of a green massage gun, a pink sports bra and a pot of warming salve all held up by illustrated hands

    Gifts for fitness fans: what to give gym and yoga bunnies this Christmas

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Health news

  • Makeup products strewn on a table

    Makeup, floss and hair dye use in pregnancy leads to more PFAS in breast milk – study

  • Five young women sit around a low table with a chessboard and board games on it; one woman is writing in a notebook and the others are chatting. Other tables with groups of people are in the background between the pillars and arches of the church

    ‘I came to make new friends’: the hangout event where phones are locked away

    • Art on display at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth

      ‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better

    • Two women jogging through a forest

      Intermittent weekend exercise has same brain benefits as regular workouts, study finds

    • A sign for Cop29 in Baku

      Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report

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