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Health & fitness

  • Someone's knees with faces drawn on, which are looking at each other through the corners of their eyes in comedic fashion.

    ‘Don’t push into pain!’ How to rescue your knees from everything from torn ligaments to injured tendons

  • ‘I sometimes found myself languishing in the romanticism of the past’: Agnes Arnold-Forster.

    That yearning feeling: why we need nostalgia

    Often misused by politicians, nostalgia is a positive emotion that could do with a makeover
  • Observer Magazine<br>Lauren Bensted pictured with her baby - her story of a bowel disease triggered after child birth.

    ‘I felt myself split into before and after’: how giving birth triggered a life-changing illness

    Having a baby led to an unexpected disease and then surgery that altered Lauren Bensted’s body for ever. She talks about the pain she felt in being separated from her newborn, and her journey to learn to accept her new life
  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out

  • illustration of woman cradling baby as she sits on what looks like a tiny island under her

    Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid. Has anything changed since?

  • Phil Daoust, covered in electrodes for his polysomnogram.

    My insomnia hell: sleeplessness is a curse – but I think I finally have the answer

  • OM ARCHIVE COVER_31st October 1971

    Longing for a baby in 1971

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Advice

  • Unsympathetic - man woman illustration

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My brother bullied me, which has had a lifelong impact. Can I build bridges with him now?

  • Sexual Healing composite image – my partner won’t go down on me because I refuse to make concessions

    Sexual healing
    My partner hates my pubic hair but I refuse to shave. What now?

  • Senior woman sitting on the bench<br>Lonely senior woman is sitting on the bench in park

    Ask Philippa
    I’ve lost contact with my brother. Is it too late to reach out?

  • A reader was cut off from a landline and the internet when they switched to BT’s Digital Voice.

    Consumer champions
    BT’s Digital Voice has cut off my mother’s vital landline

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Running & biking

  • Critical Mass cyclists taking part in May Day 2002 protests in London.

    After 30 years, Critical Mass is still fighting for cyclists on London’s roads

  • picture of coins, notes and HMRC envelopes

    Salary sacrifice: how British workers can take home more by getting paid less

  • Saturday magazine MARCH 23 2024 ULTRA SPORTS FEATURE - Main cover image Cody Lind from the USA running above the clouds on the mountainous splendour of Madeira

    Move over, marathons: the ultra-endurance sports that are redefining fitness

  • Bike near medieval buildings in Brent Eleigh on the Wolf Way

    In the company of wolves and kings: Suffolk’s new medieval cycle trail

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Health news

  • Group of people exercising squats with medicine balls

    Healthy lifestyle may offset genetics by 60% and add five years to life, study says

  • A group of people walking

    Grey wave of walkers spearhead record activity levels among England’s over-55s

    • Sito Mendoza, left, with Ramón Álvarez in Fisterra, Galicia.

      ‘It’s eating what the sea provides’: Galicia’s Atlantic diet eclipses Mediterranean cousin

    • Black woman

      Black women in England suffer more serious birth complications, analysis finds

    • Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo

      ‘I had no idea my baby was at risk’: The fight to raise awareness of pre-eclampsia

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