Health & wellbeing

Keratopigmentation: why is eyeball tattooing on the rise?

Name: Keratopigmentation. Age: First described in AD150, but not in a way that would tempt you. Appearance: Your choice. What are we talking about here? Corneal tattooing. Tattooing your cornea, as in your eye?...

How to check a hot-water bottle’s age, and other ways to stay safe and warm

If you’re looking for ways to stay warm this winter, here are several checks you should make to...

Should you make your bed in the morning? Why some doctors say no

Name: Making the bed. Age: I’m a teenager. Go away, leave me alone, I’m in bed, obviously. When you do...

Is it true that … the blue light from night-time scrolling can stop you sleeping?

Struggling to nod off? It’s easy to blame the phone that’s just inches from your face and the...

Why discovering your ancestral roots can help you to truly feel like yourself

There’s a photo somewhere – taken to preserve history – of me swabbing my inner cheek with a...

I am so incompetent, I lose things I never had in the first place | Adrian Chiles

There is something worse than pure incompetence, and that is next-level incompetence – when your incompetence starts feeding off itself. It’s a dangerous place...

I’ve spent my whole life searching for the perfect pillow. Will this torment never end? | Adrian Chiles

Happiness is a comfortable pillow. Not that I would know, as I’ve never had one. If ever I do find one at a hotel...

Red, white or yellow? What your tongue says about your health

Once, at a party, a woman said she could tell everything she needed to know about my friend by looking at her tongue. My...

Painful memories of the struggle to breastfeed | Letters

Reading Niamh Campbell’s article on breastfeeding brought back painful memories for me (‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying...

Eating too much and working in bed: experts share 10 worst sleep mistakes

Although we spend roughly a third of our lives doing it, sleep can often feel elusive. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...

All these health scares are making me ill. I need someone to tell me croissants are good for you | Emma Beddington

The recent headline that a “Daily croissant can take a toll on your heart in under a month” was like a dagger to mine,...