This Month
Beauty brand Etto taps Lempriere Wells for convertible notes raise
Etto is open to a convertible note or equity raise, and will look to upsize to $3 million if the right investor comes along.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Heading to a European spa this summer? Here’s how to bare all
For many, the tradition of stripping off to sit naked with strangers in a sauna is awkward. But don’t sweat it.
- Valeriya Safronova
March
The five factors behind rising rates of cancer in under 40s
Global cases in the under 50s are also rising rapidly, increasing by 79 per cent between 1990 and 2019 according to recent research.
- David Cox
- Analysis
- Royal family
Princess Catherine and the power of a cancer diagnosis
This year began as an annus horribilis for the royal family, but compassion coupled with a respectful fear of cancer, changed the narrative.
- Jill Margo
The nine lessons for happiness everyone should know
Just like maintaining physical fitness, you have to keep working on your mental health if you want to keep feeling the benefits, research shows.
- Gwyneth Rees
200km a week of riding? ‘My wife is very understanding’ says this exec
For winemaker Michael Garland, cycling is about so much more than physical fitness.
- Life & Leisure
- Analysis
- Royalty
What Princess Kate’s ‘preventative chemotherapy’ means
With metastatic cancer, chemotherapy is used to make people more comfortable. With earlier stages of cancer, like Princess Kate’s, it aims to increase the chances of cure.
- Updated
- Jill Margo
Is he ever ‘just a personal trainer’?
Male fitness instructors have had a reputation for being flirts and girlfriend stealers. How true is it?
- Gina Cherelus
The best skincare routine for every age, from teens to 70s
Skin changes over the years – and so should how you treat it. But it needn’t be a faff, say the leading experts.
- Ingeborg van Lotringen
The Tinder cop: breaking up gangs who prey on the lonely
Romance fraud is the fastest-growing financial crime in Britain, where a lone detective took on an international network of fraudsters.
- Stuart McGurk
Why eating a French breakfast will ruin your mood, skin and sex appeal
The people of France have made a new discovery: that basically, croissants make you ugly.
- Lucy Denyer
Four things that viral fitness fads get dead wrong
Popular online exercise challenges, such as the 75 Hard or the 12-3-20, may get you in shape in the short run. But they may not be sustainable, healthy habits.
- Talya Minsberg
These skiers are still chasing powder in their 80s and 90s
For the Wild old Bunch, getting older means more time for the mountain. And octogenarians onwards take part for free.
- Updated
- Charley Locke and Kate Russell
How a tech founder drew on Pilates to beat a health crisis
For John Anderton, founder of a tech development agency, Pilates has been a core routine for years to work off office tensions. He recently called on it during an emergency.
- Life & Leisure
How wise is it to take up a football code later in life?
Brisbane-based tech company founder Jeremy Hastings played rugby union and soccer. Then he was introduced to Australian Rules.
- Life & Leisure
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
