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Health & fitness

  • Carmen Francesch wearing a white sweatshirt - standing next to her bike with grass and lake behind

    A new start after 60: I did my first Ironman at 61 – after my husband bet I couldn’t beat him

  • Woman hanging from bar in exercise park.

    The dead hang delight: how this quick, surprisingly simple exercise can change your life

    Would you like to strengthen your upper body and core muscles, while improving your flexibility and breathing? Here’s how to do it, in the time it takes to boil a kettle
  • Mil Markle and his wife, Jan, with a picture of his late wife, Carolyn.

    Experience: My dying wife found me a girlfriend

    I created a dating profile, using words Carolyn dictated from her bed
  • An array of foods, with processed ones on the left and fruit and vegetables on the right

    ‘Avoid ingredients you don’t know’: 25 of the healthiest processed foods you can buy in the UK

  • Person struggling to get to sleep

    Insomnia? There’s a Nice-backed app for that

  • Sarah Aarons takes Phil Daoust through a basic squat.

    Get fit in two minutes! 17 micro-workouts that will change your life – even if you’re stuck in the office

  • Wellbeing Ranking Friends WEB

    Ever thought of ranking your friends in silly, random categories?

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Advice

  • Confused-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m jealous of my husband’s relationship with his sister

  • An image of a man and woman lying side by side

    Sexual healing
    My wife has no libido. Should I sleep with other people, as she suggests?

  • Man on bench

    Ask Philippa
    My big brother used to beat me up. Now I’m scared of being loved

  • A FlixBus bus under the Pont de Bercy

    Consumer champions
    Our FlixBus to Paris will not be stopping in Paris

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Running & biking

  • Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl trials an ebike for her daily commute in Sydney to a CBD office via her children’s daycare

    The ebike commute challenge: could I do daycare drop-off and get to work faster than driving?

  • Alaskan cyclist Lael Wilcox takes a break in front of the giant lobster in Kingston, South Australia

    ‘A tiny ant crawling on a map’: Lael Wilcox on her epic cycle from Perth to Brisbane

  • Have you locked your bike? sign warning about bike theft. But the lock can be stolen too.

    Insurance won’t pay my stolen bike claim because the lock was stolen, too

  • Laura Laker green jerseys, black bike, Claire is on the blue bike. Avenue Verte cycling 20240714 120815

    An Olympian effort: my struggle to cycle from London to Paris

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Health news

  • Junior Doctor Victoria Selwyn, photographed at Shenley Park in Hertfordshire. She is the founder of Headucate UK, a mental health charity.

    Trainee doctors in UK facing higher risk of burnout than during pandemic

  • Xiao holding a mic as he gives a talk

    ‘Slapping therapist’ found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter

    • A middle-aged white women standing on a stage talking to an unseen audience

      Doctor behind trial of HIV prevention drug recounts breakthrough moment

    • Fowsiyo Ali Waeys, who wears a black dress and a hijab, standing in a courtyard looking at the camera

      Family accuse London hospital of ‘negligence and discrimination’ after death of mother and baby

    • A woman sitting up in bed rubbing her neck, as her partner lies sleeping beside her

      Discovery of different forms of insomnia could lead to better treatment

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