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Here is a very sad statistic:  one in four girls aged 14 has already self-harmed.  And a recent survey by the Children’s Society has also discovered that girls are less happy than boys with school life.  The charity analysed data from the Understanding Society survey and may have found the reason:  jokes and comments in...

You might well lose weight by eating a late breakfast and an early dinner. A study published in the Journal of Nutritional Science has found that if you delay breakfast by 90 minutes, and eat supper 90 minutes earlier, you may well lose weight, even if you do not change what you eat. Researchers believe...

Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong? The Beatles saw loneliness all around them back in the 60s, when they wrote the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby.  And loneliness is growing:  the number of lonely over-50s will hit two million within seven years, according to recent data from...

The sheer amount of personal data that children and their parents are giving away about themselves is staggering.  Consider this: Children aged 11 – 16 post on social media on average 26 times a day By 13, a child will have about 1,300 pictures and videos of themselves posted online. By 18, the average child...

January Sales Depression on the rise Holding children back The kind of home that produces successful children Can your family all eat the same meal? Probably not! A tanning tip for your summer holiday Are your children gamblers? Why tidy teenagers live longer Are you hiding some debts from your loved ones?  Probably. January –...

“It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer – then goes off and boasts about the purchase. Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.  (Proverbs 20:14-15)  People in Bible times loved to shop, just as we do today.  People bought and sold and haggled for...

Half a million more people were diagnosed with depression in England in 2017 than in 2018.  Clinical depression now accounts for nearly one in ten conditions seen by family doctors. NHS Digital’s latest data reveals that prescriptions for antidepressants have soared in recent years.  Nearly 4.6million of us were diagnosed with depression in 2017/18, as...

Children who spend more than two hours a day looking at a screen have problems:  their memory is worse than average, their language skills are more limited, and their attention span is shorter. Such are the findings of a major study recently published by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Overall cognition skills were found...

Children raised in religious homes are more likely to succeed academically than those from non-religious backgrounds, regardless of whether they go to a faith school or not. Such is the finding of recent research by the UCL Institute of Education, which analysed a cohort of pupils born in 1970, their religious upbringing and the school...

A staggering three in four parents are having to cook multiple meals each evening because of their own/partner/children’s restricted diets. This finding from a recent survey by Co-op follows the news that almost a third of us (30 percent) now have special dietary requirements or intolerances.   According to the statistics, our diets are increasingly in...

January is when many of us begin to daydream of summer holidays in the sun.  So here is some advice, way in advance: when you finally hit the beach this summer, your tan will be better if you sunbathe only every other day. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that the pigmentation...

Here is a sobering fact:  more children have placed bets in the past week than have drunk alcohol, smoked or taken drugs.  Such are the findings from an audit by the Gambling Commission. It also found that one in seven 11- to16-year-olds bet regularly, staking an average of £16 a week.  And those who start...