Lifestyle

The Women’s Health Book is an authoritative guide to your health, from birth, through adolescence, motherhood, and menopause. It’s been produced by Melbourne’s iconic Royal Women’s Hospital, and you can trust the information. A special panel of experts from Royal Women’s Hospital will be on hand at the events, to answer your questions about your […]

For the past three years, Cassie Ginns, 24, has been living in agony as her own body relentlessly attacks itself. Here, the South Australian girl explains the horrors of living with lupus – a potentially fatal disease most people have never even heard of. My battle with my own body started innocuously enough – I […]

Japanese Misao Okawa, celebrates her 116 years and reveals her sushi and sleep as her lifesaving staples.

I have another fear and it’s one that has begun to significantly impact my life. I am terrified of learning to drive.

I’m not afraid of spiders, snakes or sharks. Admittedly, they don’t thrill me and I’d be none too impressed if I were to bump into them (particularly the latter two), but I waste no time or energy thinking about the chances of this happening (statistically speaking, pretty darn slim). Speaking in front of hundreds even […]

Travelling is fraught with unforeseen incidents that threaten to dent even the most carefully arranged holiday. Here's your guide to surviving them.

Life is on the move once again for Victoria Beckham, and it seems change is bringing mixed feelings for the busy fashion designer and mum of four. Signing a new contract this week with French football team Paris St Germain, Victoria’s soccer-star husband David Beckham sealed the deal on a new life for his family […]

Weights and treadmills won’t be every octogenarian’s cup of tea, but Liz Deegan’s 83-year-old mother has found a new lease of life working out at the gym. It’s not often my mother surprises me. We talk most days and I like to think we’re pretty close. She knows what I’m doing, what I’m feeling, what […]

Feeling overwhelmed? Easily distracted? Too busy to stop? Performance expert Dr Adam Fraser shows us how to get back into 'the flow' and focus on the task at hand.

Feeling overwhelmed? Easily distracted? Too busy to stop? Performance expert Dr Adam Fraser shows us how to get back into the flow and focus on the task at hand. “Multitasking is impossible,” Dr Adam Fraser says. “What we’re actually doing is switch-tasking. We can only give our conscious attention to one task at a time. […]