My family tried to eat fewer ultra-processed foods for five years. Here’s what we learned
I wrote about the MIT professor who is leading a review of Covid-19 vaccine safety for Robert F Kennedy Jr's HHS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Speed puzzlers train up to three hours a day to prepare for competitions, brushing up on techniques and building their muscles. “I like to do core exercises because your lower back hurts a lot,” says Yvonne Feucht, a Los Angeles camera operator.
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Dr Jennie Young was sick of online dating. All she found in the apps were inappropriately sexual come-ons and conversations that went nowhere. So one day, frustrated and totally out of ideas, she Googled “how do you actually find a needle in a haystack?” www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Cutting UPFs from our grocery list was expensive, laborious and time-consuming
"The medical costs alone add up to $24,000. If you add travel, pelvic floor physical therapy, water aerobics for low-impact movement and specialist care costs, she estimated that her pain has cost almost $40,000 to date." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
"I had trudged, reluctantly, through the sludge of dating apps, and begged friends to set me up, yielding humiliating results. I even paid a matchmaker $6,000 to try to circumvent the misery of dating when I could have just bought a Chanel bag." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
"I tried everything: restricting myself to evenings and weekends, moderation, breaks. Nothing worked." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
"When I was in my mid-20s, I spotted my grandma through the window of a coffee shop. I was dumbstruck – she had passed away the year before. I stared for a moment, then reminded myself it couldn’t be her." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
"To experience moral injury is to be forced to act in ways or to witness actions that contradict your most deeply held convictions." www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
Chronic pain remakes you - it can make you a smaller, more fearful version of yourself. At the same time, it can also make you more present and connected and grateful. I spoke to Darcey Steinke, whose book details her encounter with that very strange beast www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Patients with vulvovaginal pain spend thousands as delayed diagnosis and insurance gaps inflate costs
Darcey Steinke wanted to write a book that wasn’t just about trying to get over pain. Her memoir, This Is the Door, explores how chronic pain changes us
