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Truth about breast cancer

CHEMOTHERAPY is hailed as a life-saving treatment, but the thought of the side effects it brings, from nausea to hair loss, strikes fear into most cancer sufferers. Read

Sex - too much of a good thing?

WHAT do David Duchovny, Russell Brand and Michael Douglas have in common? Read

CUT DOWN ON CAFFEINE: Several studies have linked caffeine consumption to a high incidence of PMS symptoms including tension, irritability, anxiety, sleep disturbance and breast tenderness. Some of coffee’s components have a mild oestrogen- like effect on the body and oestrogen is responsible for PMS. Read

Making a break for it!

YOU’VE been sitting for several minutes staring blankly at the same page of a book, the same computer screen, or a particular piece of work . . . but you don’t seem able to concentrate or make any progress. Sound familiar? Read

Getting to grips with your gut feeling

WHEN Gordon Ramsay was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer, he blamed it on the food he ate while filming Kitchen Nightmares in the US. Read

My cancer might save your life

FATHER-of-five Nick Carter has a cancer that will one day kill him but he is determined that while he’s still here his experience of the disease will help sufferers of the future. Read

Search for source of 'soft time'

A FEW evenings ago, I was wandering back home from our allotment, having spent a peaceful quarter of an hour watering the lettuce, peas, carrots and runner beans. Read

Are health scares a help or hype?

ARE you struggling to decide what to eat, drink, or what “vice” or treat to give up next, thanks to the never-ending stream of confusing health scares? Read

How marriage can help ward off Alzheimer’s disease

THEY say everything in life has its price. While some of us may savour being a single, free spirit at 40, experts now claim that this could increase your risk of becoming senile in later life. Read

Let's try talking back to happiness

ARE you afraid to communicate what you really feel for fear of making waves or hurting someone? Read

Don’t go to seed!

WHILE women are all too aware of the ticking of their biological clock, most men may believe their potency is unaffected by age. Read

Write idea

IF a child finds it hard to read, we no longer assume they’re stupid. Teachers and parents are hot to spot learning disorders such as dyslexia, but how many of us who left school many years ago suffered unnecessarily? Read

Advice on having twins

HOLLYWOOD’S golden couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — already the parents of four children — are now celebrating the birth of twins. Read

First aid tips for parents as children get set for summer

GIVE kids some time off and they’ll always manage to get into scrapes. Summer and the holidays bring children outside to have fun in playgrounds and paddling pools, on beaches and at barbecues and parties. Read

Don’t let your skin go to pot

MY mother always had a bottle of Oil of Ulay on her dressing table and now I have a rather glamorous red glass pot of what is, these days, called Olay. Read

How to survive if you can’t stand the heat

AFTER spending months complaining that summer just couldn’t come soon enough, we’re now in the throes of it . . . and suffering from those pesky ailments that only the hot months bring. Read

Look out for magic word

HAVING recently reached my mid-30s, anything with the magic word pentapeptide on the ingredient list catches my eye, so I had to give Olay’s age-defying elixir, Daily Regenerist Serum — £22.50 for 50ml — a go. Read

Getting the sun balance right

NEVER mind the temperature outside, the hottest debate of the summer is whether to sunbathe or not. Read

Colourprinting make-up service stops you going round the blends

IF you’ve ever spent ages trying to choose the right foundation, only to get home and find it’s too light or too dark, you’ll recognise that sense of frustration . . . and it can be a costly error, too. Read

Beware pitfalls of ‘summer-itis’

SUMMER’S on its way, when the better weather and all that sport on the telly inspires us to get out there and get active . . . but all too often it can end in tears. Read

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