Put the diet Coke down. I repeat, put the diet Coke down! You’re probably aware that drinking soda is bad for you, but your choice to go to diet isn’t much better. Sure, diet soda is marketed to have no calories or sugar, but what exactly IS it that you’re drinking anyway? It’s really a …

It’s a Saturday afternoon and you’re sitting in the hair salon, watching the mirror as your stylist busily snips away at your hair. You’ve got a niggling feeling that something’s not right… but no, you can’t make a fuss. Let’s just wait and see what happens. Half an hour later, you’ve paid up your bill, …

We’ve all been there. You’ve cut out junk food, stopped the snacking and spend every spare minute in the gym, but you still aren’t seeing any results on the scales. Sound familiar? We’ve spoken to Dr. Michelle Braude, Doctor & Nutritionist and founder of The Food Effect about some of the common dieting myths she …

Ever felt inexplicably attracted to a man with a large nose? Or been driven to distraction by the smell of a special someone? Or even wondered why your husband bears a passing resemblance to your brother? At last, scientists are getting to grips with a conundrum: the factors that govern women’s feelings of sexual attraction. …

Patients will be given a key ingredient from magic mushrooms in a new trial to beat depression. The hallucinogenic powers of the psychedelic mushrooms are well known, but now they could be used to combat particularly severe forms of the condition. British start-up Compass Pathways is poised to put this theory to the test with …