Life and style

China’s population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to another record low, according to...

‘Always keep your head covered. You can lose 40–45% of body heat from an unprotected head.” That’s the advice in...

Tom Stoltman was a skinny kid: 90kg, 6ft 8in, with glasses and sticking‑out teeth. Diagnosed with autism as a young...

From the age of 16, Taylor Gough’s body was a finely tuned machine. A professional rugby player who came up...

How can we accept that what feels like overwhelming love for someone is unrequited, and how can we get over...

Eugene Teo, 34, began lifting weights at the age of 13, looking for validation. “I was short, skinny and I...

When I met my husband eight years ago, I knew he was churchy, but as a low-church Protestant, I thought...

Dentists have trained us well to visit them on a regular basis for a check-up, rather than waiting until things...

I see people 30 years younger than me and they’ve given up,” Jean Stewart, 96, says. It’s not an attitude...

Megan Jayne Crabbe’s transformation goes beyond the physical. “My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in...