After 30 years of dieting I was exhausted. So I started to ask: what if I stopped?
Jason Prokowiew
My childhood bullies instilled in me a hatred of my body. Now I hear the word ‘fat’ as a neutral term rather than a label of shame, says author Jason Prokowiew
Can you prepare for a good menopause? Perhaps start by thinking of it as a ‘second spring’
Singer Jessie J reveals she has been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD
I was a bestselling recipe writer - then burnout killed my appetite for food, and life. This is how I found my way back
Weekend
Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry – podcast
Health leaders hail Labour’s plans to phase out smoking as ‘gamechanging’
Modernisation of mental health laws also among raft of bills experts say will improve health of future generations
Psychedelic drugs have great therapeutic benefit – if understood on their own terms
Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis
The FDA’s recent rejection of MDMA isn’t surprising. Too many advocates are trying to frame psychedelics as a miracle drug
‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM
Art and counselling are helping women and girls in Kenya to process anger and forgive family members, who are often the ones who subjected them to genital mutilation
