Health
ivillage.co.uk, June 2008
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it seems Mars is awash with butchers while Venus is full of fruit and veggie stalls. Recent research confirmed what many of us already suspected: women are not only the fairer sex, but the healthier sex as well
Quiz: Is your office making you fat, ivillage.co.uk
ivillage.co.uk, March 2008
Do you find it impossible to get through the afternoon without joining in the chocolate run or nibbling on a piece of birthday cake? Find out if your lack of office will power is adding pounds to your waistline
Putting exercise to rest
ivillage.co.uk, October 2007
I should have seen it coming. The 'buy one, get one free' antihistamine offers in the pharmacies had been replaced by similar deals on cold and flu remedies, and every time I went out in public it felt like people were coughing and spluttering in my direction
Health hazards in your handbag
ivillage.co.uk, September 2007
Some celebrity trends are never going to cut it in the real world. Paris Hilton's Chihuahua in a bag would be a ridiculous accessory for the average woman. But the oversized handbags regularly draped over the shoulders of the likes of Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan are a different story
No prescription, no problem
guardianweekly.co.uk, September 2007
The 50-something man in front of me at the pharmacy in
Bloody SAD
TNT magazine, January 2006
Not too many people would say they liked spending winter in the UK. Surviving your first frosty winter can be a real challenge, especially for those of us who hail from warmer southern hemisphere climates