Lifestyle
Health & wellness
My day on a plate: Mariaa Randall
Choreographer and dancer, Mariaa Randall, shares her day on a plate.
- by Nicole Economos
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Opinion
Diet
Do I have a drinking problem, or does everybody else?
Some of you might want to pack me off to rehab right now. Others might think I’m a light drinker.
- by Aubrey Perry
Wellbeing
Could throwing yourself into a new activity bring inner happiness?
Someone in 'flow' is so engrossed in an activity, that they have a mental time-out from their usual day-to-day worries.
- by Melissa Gerke
Mental health
Outer order, inner calm: the latest happiness mantra
Must our lives always be under construction, each day tasked with becoming ordered, calmer, better, happier, more? Can't we simply be?
- by Karen Heller
Parenting
DNA detectives and the end of family secrets
Sign up to a DNA site and you might uncover Viking ancestry – or who your father was. Adoptees and donor-conceived people can now make shock genetics discoveries with a simple saliva swab and they're doing it in droves.
- by Aisha Dow
Opinion
International Women's Day
The clearer we are about women's mental health needs the better
Balancing paid and unpaid work can affect physical and mental health, writes Julia Gillard, for International Women's Day.
- by Julia Gillard
Nutrition
Can plant-based diets actually improve your immune system?
People following vegetarian diets tend to have lowered levels of white blood cells. But are their levels too low?
- by Yasmine Probst and Joel Craddock
Parenting
The 'scientific' way to raise children is surprisingly simple
Researchers have warned parents to not forget the basics.
- by Sarah Berry
Illness
Study explores links between personality types and eating disorders
An Australian National University study has identified a link between parenting styles, personality types and eating disorders.
- by Steve Evans
Nutrition
The 'staggering' amount of salt in Australian kids' fast food meals
Some of the same meals in UK outlets contained about half the amount of salt.
- by Sarah Berry
Wellbeing
'No safe level': what we're getting wrong with alcohol guidelines
The truth about that 'medicinal' glass of wine.
- by Gary Nunn