Health & Wellbeing

0:00 AMTrent Dalton In this technosexual age of ‘hook-up’ apps, everyone wins and no one gets hurt. Oh really?

0:00 AMKate Legge Kerry Nicholas did everything she could to help her daughter Sophie, but proper treatment was hard to get.

0:00 AMRuth Ostrow Spouse abuse and parental neglect can spark complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

0:00 AMSEAN PARNELL If you think diabetes is easily fixed with insulin, you are wrong, and perhaps underestimating the dangers.

0:00 AMJOHN ROSS People with a genetic predisposition towards education are also inherently programmed for long life.

13:26 PMOliver Moody The middle-aged father gets a bad press. But a new book argues that he is the unheralded hero of human evolution.

13:12 PMRosemary Bennett Calls mount for wet wipes to be clearly labelled with a ‘do not flush’ warning amid claims they are killing marine life.

0:00 AMRUTH OSTROW Don’t come between a low-blood-sugar woman and her biscuit, as you wouldn’t between a salivating dog and it’s bone.

0:00 AMRoss Bilton Forget the steak. Modern men smear beef on their skin.

0:00 AMMELISSA COBURN In these times of slogans, vitriol and abuse, we need great teachers more than ever.

0:00 AMSEAN PARNELL A non-profit organisation is getting children off their laptops and into the great outdoors.

8:03 AMAndrea Petersen Your voice weakens as you age. Here are some exercises to retain your strong vocal presence.

0:00 AMTessa Akerman Making mates in school was straightforward but sadly this is not the case for many of us in adulthood.

0:00 AMJason Gagliardi It’s the first two lines of the last stanza of Robert Burns’s great equaliser that packs the knockout punch.

0:00 AMAndrew McMillen Need a new nose, eye or ear? Meet the ‘spare parts’ man changing lives.

0:00 AMRuth Ostrow Erratophobia — the dread of making mistakes — can paralyse decision-making, but it can be beaten.

0:00 AMDEIRDRE MACKEN Distractions are multiplying, taking an increasing toll on our productivity and, perhaps, sanity.

0:00 AMSEAN PARNELL Celebrities and public figures serve as an example of what can be achieved despite suffering from epilepsy.

0:00 AMCONRAD LIVERIS Long hours hurt people and business.

0:00 AMJohn Lethlean The Food for Thought charity dinners raise money and generate discussion about a ‘higher cause’.