CHALLENGE TO CHANGEBy Yvonne Fontyn it sounds mildly ridiculous, the idea of a life coach. No-one gets a guidebook to life: we just get on with it. So why are more and more people who aren’t athletes agreeing to be “coached”, paying large amounts of money to someone t…
LIONS’ DEN OR WHITE ELEPHANT?By David Williams We will have several white elephants on our hands after the once-in-a-lifetime soccer extravaganza is over – and the origin of the term “white elephant” is instructive. Elephants of this colour are very rare but not unknown, and the…
BIRD ON a WIREBy Peter Wilhelm The 1960s have truly disappeared – perhaps out of embarrassment, since the wrong choices and pallid thinking of that decade have been replaced by mythology and a belief that it was a time of sexual freedom and (diluted) revolution. …
GUILT-EDGED PERFORMANCEBy David Furlonger We all know the jokes about Porsche drivers and how they buy the cars to cover supposed deficiencies: chiefly lack of self-confidence and (I’m trying to be polite here) limited stature in the trouser department. I laugh as heartily…
BELLY FAT CAN BE BENEFICIALBy Linda Stafford Down-to-earth Virginia Hopkins, whose eponymous Health Watch online magazine shares useful and commonsense information about health and nutrition based on solid scientific research, has good news for middle-aged women battling t…
TAKE a LOAD OFF THOSE KNEESBy Yvonne Fontyn Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, causing pain, swelling and reduced motion in the joints. Being overweight has been linked to this degenerative joint disease, according to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medici…
SLEEP AFFECTS YOUR DIETBy Linda Stafford it seems how you sleep affects what you eat. Orfeu M Buxton, from the Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues studied 542 male motor freight workers to ascertain how sleep adequacy and workplace experiences influenced f…
ONE IS SO YUMBy JUSTICE MALALA My one and only lovely wife and I felt a great need to escape what the presidency has been referring to as “the events of the past week” – meaning the head of state’s indiscretion with yet another friend’s daughter – so we …
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