For many women, growing up you assume that one day you’ll be able to have children. It might be fairly far down the agenda, but you take it as a given that one day you’ll have a family of your own. It doesn’t always work out like that for everyone, however; one in seven couples …

We’re all guilty of overeating at times, consuming more than we intended despite our desire to be healthier. But why? Is it simply down to hunger? Here Marina Rösser, top nutritionist and nutrition specialist for the leading fitness app company Freeletics, shares six entirely possible reasons behind your tendency to overeat: 1. Plates – Why …

There’s still a good few weeks to go before Christmas day but if, like us, the party season has already got you feeling a little worse-for-wear, take comfort in the fact that not all festive food is unhealthy. Here, Helen Bond – consultant nutritionist on behalf of The Harley Medical Group – talks us through …

If you search for ‘painful orgasms’ around the internet, you pull up a lot of results that are mostly testimonials from women who experience them, and a couple of news articles asserting that they’re real. But if you’re looking for hard, medical data on painful orgasms – or the condition called dysorgasmia – you’ll run …

Genes linked to homosexuality have been discovered by scientists in the biggest ever study into the genetic basis for sexual orientation. For the first time, researchers looked at the complete genome – a person’s entire DNA code – for more than 1,000 gay men and compared it to genetic data from a similar number of …