Today
The nine most pressing questions about middle age, answered
Read this, and you’ll be able to navigate its aches and pains, weight gain, perimenopause, low libido, memory loss, chronic diseases and stress.
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- Dana Smith
This Month
Scientists identify the best type of exercise for mental sharpness
Queensland Brain Institute researchers studied sprinters, speed walkers and more leisurely exercisers. Here’s what they found.
- Lucy Dean
Getting tired as you grow older? Here’s how to keep your energy up
If you feel like you’re often exhausted and needing more naps as you age, you should try to put a stop to it before it becomes more serious.
- Trisha Pasricha
Study finds a treatment more effective than Ozempic for slimming down
The analysis found a rival drug made by Eli Lilly leads to faster and better weight loss, causing shares in to Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk’s to also drop.
- Reuters
Work friends can be hard to find. How to combat workplace loneliness
Remote work has only intensified a problem that has been bubbling for decades.
- Melissa Rayworth
How to eat your way to a good mood
What you eat doesn’t just affect your waistline but your emotional outlook as well.
- Luke Benedictus
Are you guilty of these eight unhealthy ‘microaggressions’?
Such behaviour can have a serious impact on mental and physical wellbeing, including depression and sleeping problems, say experts – so it may pay to avoid it.
- George Chesterton
The all-in-one physical, mental and emotional workout
Kimbali Harding began learning piano as a toddler. The hobby has not just guided her career choice – she can’t imagine her life without it.
- Life & Leisure
The secret to ageing may lie in AP-1
Australian researchers appear to have uncovered a crucial master controller that governs the activity of human genes as we develop and age.
- Jill Margo
Why you probably need to rethink your bucket list
Rather than grand plans, small actions every day are the key to achieving happiness and a sense of worth.
- Lucy Dean
Are you overweight or obese? Depends on where you carry your fat
European experts have developed a new framework to modernise the staging, diagnosis and management of obesity.
- Jill Margo
The exercise habit that boosts this founder’s productivity
Road running in the morning gets Brand Rebellion’s Bryden Campbell primed for her workday.
- Life & Leisure
Ozempic could be linked to sudden blindness, says new report
Patients who took the drugs for weight loss were seven times more likely to be diagnosed with a stroke-like eye condition, according to Harvard research.
- Robert Langreth
Supercharge your workouts with a weighted vest
They’re suddenly everywhere and no wonder. It’s the one piece of gym kit that will get you fit faster while making you feel like an action hero,
- Luke Benedictus
Study reveals the power of a kiss on the cheek
Why your cheeks are a highly sensitive interface with the world.
- Jill Margo
Making new friends can be hard. Here are five ways to make one a year
Many modern factors, including remote work, social media and a higher focus on convenience in everyday life, such as home streaming, have increased loneliness.
- Emma Nadler
Extending life expectancy big business for Manly app founders
The three surf club members started comparing workouts in 2020. Now their platform, which aggregates wearable technology data, is worth about $9 million.
- Zoe Samios
My week of drinking like a Boomer – and what it did to my body
A tot before breakfast, a brightener here, a livener there – the older generation has perfected the art of perma-imbibing. Could I keep up?
- Liz Hoggard
June
Why that surprise weight gain might be an Ozempic baby
There is mounting evidence that weigh-loss drugs such as Ozempic are delivering baby-sized surprises.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
Founder takes coastal path to fitness, friends and freedom
Runner Melissa Jolly, founder of Pinnacle Insurance Brokers, has her eye on the Kokoda Track and a marathon next.
- Life & Leisure
