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All the latest health and wellbeing information and advice from the experts.

Countdown's Susie Dent on the joy of dogs, words, and a good, sweaty spin session

Susie Dent loves words – a passion she's shared for 27 years in Countdown's 'Dictionary Corner' on Channel 4.

Now, she's going a step further, by helping bring the 'Powers of Description' to the nation's visually impaired children and adults.

This is the latest campaign by sight loss charity Guide Dogs, highlighting how words and description can enrich everyone's life – as...

Five things a sleep expert doesn’t want you to do before bedtime

To mark ‘Sleeptember’, sleep expert Professor Jason Ellis outlines what you should avoid before bedtime to help you get a good night’s kip.

Sleeping badly is a waking nightmare for a staggering amount of people – and every one of them knows the huge effect a lack of sleep can have on their wellbeing.

New research by The Sleep Council for Sleeptember – its month-long campaign...

Don't Let Problem Drinking Ruin Your Relationship

To help families and their drinkers, a west country couple (Lou Lewis and Dr John McMahon) have relaunched Bottled Up, their therapeutic website, as a FREE resource to bring hope and support to families suffering the consequences of problem drinking.

For the last ten years, this highly interactive website has helped drinkers get sober and saved relationships throughout the world....

Adam Kay: 'Doctors shouldn't be afraid to talk about their struggles'

Adam Kay still can't quite believe that This Is Going To Hurt, his hilarious and heartbreaking diaries of his time as a junior doctor, launched him into the literary stratosphere last year, outselling Michelle Obama's memoir and shifting 1.5 million copies.

A year on, he's still at the top of the bestseller lists.

"I didn't think the first book would have any success at all...

Sir Billy Connolly: 'You don't wake up famous, you wake up scratching yourself like everybody else'

"I've got Parkinson's disease," Sir Billy Connolly writes in his new book, Tall Tales And Wee Stories, "and I wish he'd f***ing kept it to himself!"

When I meet him in a hotel suite in London's plush Mayfair for this interview, Connolly is having one of his better days. White hair cascading to the collar of his denim jacket, a chunky metallic ring on his right hand, he navigates the...

10 ways to help children sleep better

Children's tech obsession can be hard enough for parents to deal with during the day – but new evidence suggests they should be concerned about the effect it's having on kids at night too.

Research shows that the 40% of children aged between six and 11 years who use mobile phones, laptops or tablets in the hours before bedtime are getting around 20 minutes less sleep a night than...

12 things you only know if you feel cold all the time

Yes, even in summer, says Katie Wright.

I recently learned a word I’d never heard before, a word that made me gasp when I realised it describes me to a T.

‘Nesh’ is used in part of the Midlands and north of England to describe someone who feels the cold – a lot.

Personally, my ideal air temperature is 30 degrees and I get angry when people complain about heatwaves....

Have Your Cake and Eat It: The Top 10 Most Nutritious Baked Goods

A multivitamin subscription brand has revealed the top 10 most nutritious baked goods, based on each recipe's vitamin and mineral content, to celebrate hit TV show the Great British Bake Off. The brand's nutritionists have calculated that a slice of carrot cake contains 11% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin A and banana bread contains 3.2% of an adult's RDA of potassium....

This is why it's better to shower at night, according to a skincare expert

Are you an evening shower fan? Or do you prefer to lather up first thing in the morning?

If you said the latter, I'm afraid we've got some bad news for you. According to Swedish beauty brand Foreo, if you want to keep your skin in tip-top condition, it's advisable to shower at night rather than when you get out of bed first thing.

"It's an argument with some very vocal...

Ask an expert: Could using social media be affecting my daughter’s mental health?

A doctor offers guidance for parents on talking to kids about how social media might be making them feel. By Lisa Salmon.

My 13-year-old daughter spends a lot of time on social media and often seems anxious, depressed and moody. I don’t know whether it’s just because she’s being a ‘normal’ teenager, or whether her mood is negatively affected by her social-media use. She’s not easy to...

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