Daily Life

Sarah Berry

Lifestyle Health Editor

The Tsimane are into exercise and bananas (well, plantains which are a low sugar variety).

What those with the world's healthiest hearts do differently

The majority of risk factors for heart disease are lifestyle related. And given that heart disease is the world's number one killer, researchers have been understandably keen to know what those with the world's lowest rates of it do differently.

We give and we all receive health benefits.

Gain five years of your life by giving

Cynics argue that benevolence primarily benefits the giver; that it is less about helping others as helping ourselves because it's inherently selfish if the giver receives pleasure from giving and all that.

Making the beast beautiful: Sarah Wilson.

Wilson: Anxiety should be embraced and seen as beautiful

It is a nuance of the human condition that we can be full of contradictions, with each apparent discrepancy equally true. We can be as strong as we are fragile, as connected as we are lonely and as joyful as we are despairing.