Confessions of a solitary man
Seven years ago, after 25 years of marriage, my wife and I separated. So began the quest to find meaning and purpose in solitude.
Health
Smokers, apnoea a fatal mix
Smokers who suffer from sleep apnoea spend longer than non-smokers at ‘dangerously low’ oxygen levels during their sleep, increasing their risk of cardiovascular death.
Why you should eat more bread
Awesome news for carb lovers: cutting out bread may not cut the kilos. Some breads prove a magic bullet for blasting body fat.
How do we tell them this is not normal sex?
‘Choking is mainstream now. And hitting….’ That bleak little nugget came from a 20-year-old friend, in a talk about consent.
Living in the fallout zone of Mr Fluffy’s invisible misery
Not all disasters are equal. Some are wet and wild, some are cyclonic or fiery. The disaster that has settled over Canberra can’t be seen or smelt, but it is insidious.
Super flu vaccine gets the go-ahead
A new type of cell-based influenza vaccine is available this winter that promises to be much more effective than protein-based flu jabs grown in eggs.
Diagnosed with insomnia? Here’s how I get more sleep
In my quest for beauty sleep, I’ve tried everything from aromatherapy and melatonin to acupressure and camomile tea. But alas. Each temporary fix has been exactly that: a passing relief.
Even the best skaters get badly hurt
Cold, slippery and unyielding, ice is a lethal surface to play sports on. Even the best skaters get badly hurt when they fall.
What would you do?
A performer collapses on stage. A person is racially abused on a bus. A crashed car with two people trapped inside is about to go up in flames… Do you stand back or step up?
He survived COVID-19 … and he has a warning
Joe Tannous spent 10 days on a ventilator in an induced coma. But nothing could have prepared him for what comes after COVID-19.
Life of the party girl: denial to sobriety
In 2017, Bryony Gordon woke up after a friend’s 40th birthday party with a man who was not her husband. Hers may be the most searing account of alcoholism you’ll read.
Crash diets do a fat lot of good
A new book shows counting calories and switching to processed foods is wrecking our bodies.
Rich and rare: Lowy takes stock
Even for Australia’s richest, not everything is attainable and for Frank Lowy, one commodity has eluded him.
Longer lives may not go swimmingly
Of the gains to our life expectancy in the past three decades, a disproportionate amount has been in years of less than full health.
How to live well in your final decade
Health-adjusted life expectancy tells us how many of our final years we can actually expect to enjoy.
Sex, vibes and influencers
An expose turned Byron Bay’s ‘utopia’ into a joke, but can an outsider ever understand it?
Long recovery after love sours
Even seven years after separating, the emotional wellbeing of men and women in has not fully recovered.
What would you do?
Neil O’Riordan helped his beloved partner Penny die on a Thursday because ‘it’s a s–t night on TV’.
How anxiety hurts men
Men, trained from childhood to be stoic and silent about their pain and turmoil, are particularly vulnerable to anxiety.
How to break a strongman
He was Australia’s strongest man, literally pulling planes and trains behind him. But brute force wouldn’t help Grant Edwards through this.
Skincare’s newest ‘miracle’
Oh deer! The beauty industry discovers new goop.
IVF dilemma few see coming
Desperate to conceive, Clara Pirani never considered what she’d do with her leftover embryos — or how tough the choice would be.
Inside rushing woman syndrome
A new book, Rushing Woman’s Syndrome, argues that working women are suffering from overload. Is is fact or fiction?
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