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Looking at You   What does the law say about food? What an apple might do for you How to avoid the tooth fairy Happiness is… Keep your brain healthy Don’t fight ‘book block’ Confiding in mum and dad? Best way to clean your house What happened to basic lavatory training? Universities can mistake ‘loneliness...

Here’s some good news:  an apple a day could help keep diabetes at bay, according to new health guidelines. Yoghurt, cheese and regular cups of tea or coffee are among other food and drinks that could also help ward off the condition.  But keep an eye on the meat and potatoes – they may actually...

Don’t feel guilty about giving up on a novel.  If you don’t enjoy it, simply abandon it. That’s the advice of the Reading Agency, a literary charity which recently surveyed our novel reading habits.  It found that more than 20 per cent of us refuse to give up on a book once we have started...

The most efficient way to clean your house is to tackle it chore by chore, not room by room. Dusting, vacuuming, and tidying room by room wastes time, according to the Good Housekeeping Institute (GHI).  Instead, once the duster is out, go over the whole house with it.  Follow the same procedure with the vacuum...

‘Let him lead me to the banquet hall…’ Song of Solomon 2:4     Saturday was the annual village fete. By late in the afternoon, there were still some raw burgers left over. The butcher had supplied them frozen and during the day they had defrosted. Someone had baked some rock cakes which they could not...

Who teaches young children how to use the lavatory and clean themselves up afterwards?   You’d be surprised. According to YouGov research, more and more parents are failing to train their young children in this most basic of personal tasks. Instead, primary schoolteachers have to step in and teach them.  So widespread has the problem become,...

Many young people who have just left home for university will be lonely. That is a normal emotion of young adults, and it is certainly not a medical condition. So says a leading professor of psychiatry at Kings College London, who advises universities not to make the current mental health crisis worse by assuming that...

London Fashion Week takes place 14th to 18th September.  Hundreds of buyers, journalists, bloggers, fashionistas and photographers will all be in attendance as the top fashion houses showcase their new prints, fabrics, cuts and shapes for the spring and summer of 2019. LFW is far more than pretty models strutting up and down a catwalk....

What health problem will lose our children around 60,000 days off school this year? Tooth decay.  A child is having a rotten tooth extracted in England every ten minutes, due largely to high-sugar diets and a failing to clean their teeth properly. These recent figures from Public Heath England are alarming, but it is easy...

They are worth it.  Even if you can’t stop yawning. Young children bring you great happiness. Recent figures produced by the National Centre for Social Research suggest that even if they scream all night, still parents of young children are happier than non-parents – or those with school-age children.  And more good news – having...

Here’s an excellent reason to get regular exercise:  women who are fit at 50 are five times less likely to get dementia. A Swedish study found that middle age is the key time for people to take steps to promote their brain health.  And boosting your exercise does not have to mean major exertion –...

Girls are talking to their fathers more.  Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that last year 45 per cent of girls aged 10 to 15 talked to their fathers about things that mattered to them more than once a week.  That compared with 35 per cent in 2009. Experts believe that...