Health & wellbeing
‘It felt amazing to be on the start line again’: the rugby pro who became paralysed – and is aiming for the Paralympic Games
From the age of 16, Taylor Gough’s body was a finely tuned machine. A professional rugby player who came up...
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How can we learn from unrequited love?
How can we accept that what feels like overwhelming love for someone is unrequited, and how can we get over...
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‘I looked exceptional but I was out of breath’: the bodybuilder who switched to mindful movement
Eugene Teo, 34, began lifting weights at the age of 13, looking for validation. “I was short, skinny and I...
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‘We stick them in shoes and forget about them’: how to really look after your feet
Dentists have trained us well to visit them on a regular basis for a check-up, rather than waiting until things...
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‘Without strength training I wouldn’t survive’: the woman who joined a CrossFit gym in her 80s
I see people 30 years younger than me and they’ve given up,” Jean Stewart, 96, says. It’s not an attitude...
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‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder
Megan Jayne Crabbe’s transformation goes beyond the physical. “My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in...
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Six great reads: Mondrian’s hidden inspiration, the friendship secret and heat for Heated Rivalry
1. How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territoryView image in fullscreen“One day during his...
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What’s the easiest way to get healthy? I tried biohacking my life to live longer
A week into the first lockdown of the pandemic, I vowed I would never set foot in a gym again....
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I see time as a grid in my mind. I remember the birthdays of friends I haven’t seen for 65 years
Did someone with spatial-sequence synaesthesia design the calendar app on mobile phones? Because that’s how time and dates look in...
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My rookie era: peer pressure brought me to bouldering, then I found calm in ‘the way of the wall’
At first, I didn’t notice it. When it became too big to not notice, I ignored it. In my ignorance,...
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