This Month
Do you really want to know if you’ll get Alzheimer’s?
A blood test will be able to predict which people in their 50s and 60s will develop the debilitating cognitive disease, which cannot be stopped.
- F.D. Flam
Hiking is great for strategising about work, says this founder
Sydney-based ethical clothing brand founder Sophie Taylor loves hiking – in the Blue Mountains, New Zealand or on a high-altitude trek in Peru. But there’s one place on her ultimate wish list.
- Life & Leisure
The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are making blockbuster drugs. Can they maintain their lead?
- The Economist
‘A Mars bar in a yellow skin’: the truth about bananas
Is the popular fruit really such a health saviour? Here are the pros and cons of making bananas one of your five a day.
- Susanna Galton
I have anorexia: this is what it’s like
To have a meaningful conversation about eating disorders, we need to first strip away the myths.
- Pia Curran
Is smartphone addiction dooming a generation of girls?
Parents and grandparents have always fretted about the state of today’s youth. But this time, the research points to good reasons for concern.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Psychology
Is your colleague a sociopath?
Also known as “dark triad” personalities, these manipulative narcissists are indifferent to people’s feelings.
- Arthur C Brooks
February
‘Life before Shazam was tough’: how heavy metal educated this exec
George Hartley co-founded the online art marketplace Bluethumb, but music has always been his passion, and piano his forte.
- Life & Leisure
How the risk of cancer changes with age
The type of cancers that affect us in old age tend to strike different organs and have very different underlying causes, compared with the ones that strike people in their youth.
- David Cox
How to lose the work-from-home kilos
Learning how to avoid falling down the many rabbit holes of WFH that lead to weight gain is a skill we need to avoid those extra kilos.
- Laurel Ives
- Sponsored
- SRW
Your cellular clock — and how to reset it
Cellular protection is the new frontier for healthy ageing — and, as our average lifespan increases, it may hold the key to living healthier for longer.
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by SRW
How eating cold rice, pasta can help you lose weight
Adding “resistant starch” such as cooked but cold leftover rice or pasta to your diet can facilitate weight loss, according to a new study in Nature Metabolism.
- Jill Margo
The least amount of exercise you can get away with
What’s the solution if you don’t have time for exercise or find it boring?
- Charlotte Lytton
The truth about the new 30:30:30 diet
Viral diets have a nasty tendency to combine two of my least favourite things: deprivation and maths.
- Hattie Garlick
Peter Bol doesn’t want revenge for false drug test. He wants to win
“I figured out, the angrier that I got, the more destruction it did to me,” Bol says. “So I found I just let it go.”
- Euan Black
What men under 50 must do at their next GP visit
If you are male and under 50, next time you see your GP, here’s why you should ask for a blood pressure assessment.
- Jill Margo
The physio’s guide to injury recovery
Our ageing population is more active, which is good, but they are more likely to hurt themselves. There are some simple ways to avoid and recover from injury.
- Nick Harding
This doctor relishes the thrill of racing her Porsche at 250 km/h
Inspiring others, testing her skills, and a love of fast cars drives medical director of The Centre for Medical Aesthetics, Dr Amy Chahal, “to be the best I can be”.
- Life & Leisure
I’ve got the ‘fat gene’ – but at 42 I’ve finally beaten it
Some of us are just genetically inclined to put on weight and keep it on. But that’s no reason for despair.
- Isabel Mohan
What memory gaffes really mean about your mental acuity
Cognitive abilities can’t be evaluated based on anecdotal lapses – memory, no matter what your age, is fallible and malleable.
- Caitlin Gilbert, Gretchen Reynolds, Richard Sima and Teddy Amenabar
