Your holiday should be stress-free
	10:27am Tue 1 Apr 08
	While we all look forward to the holiday season - as a welcome time to relax and get away from routine - for millions a break may turn out to be a disappointment. Around 40 per cent of people are caught in a stress trap' which can leave them feeling worse when they're not working, rather than better, and 10 per cent are even plagued by physical symptoms like nausea, headaches, dizziness or palpitations.

BEAT STRESS LONG-TERM

8:33am Tuesday 1st April 2008

Celebrate your achievements. Spend time at the end of each day thinking about the high spots and what you did well, rather than dwelling on mistakes or worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Research shows optimists live longer than people with a more negative view of life and are less likely to suffer from lower immune systems.

	Providing support for cancer patients
	8:21am Tue 25 Mar 08
	WENDY Edwards describes what it was like to be diagnosed with breast cancer in January last year: "It feels like life has been taken away from under your feet."

	Cholesterol checks heartily endorsed
	11:20am Tue 18 Mar 08
	Gloria Hunniford is only too aware of the importance of keeping a healthy heart. The 67-year-old TV presenter lost her first husband to an undetected heart condition and only a year after her wedding to Stephen Way in 1998, he suffered a small heart attack.

	On the Run...with Ruth Meech
	10:27am Tue 18 Mar 08
	DESPITE over-stressed calves, tight thighs and lopsided legs - which give rise to the very real risk of running in ever-decreasing circles - my running programme is now under way.

	Winners are those who do not draw
	8:16am Tue 11 Mar 08
	I WILL tell you a secret: smokers do not like No Smoking Day. On Wednesday, March 12, the 25th annual No Smoking Day, you will see little outposts of them at bus stops, outside pubs, huddled together and puffing defiantly. There are two choices available to smokers on this day. Either they can create a smokescreen between them and the non-smoking world or, like 1.5 million others, they can confront their demons. Neither option is much fun, but that is rather the point.

	Suicidal at 21 – and told to wait in queue
	8:22am Tue 4 Mar 08
	It's every parent's nightmare, isn't it? Something you think will never happen to you, but when it does it's horrendous," says Nick Wentworth-Stanley quietly. He is talking about the loss of his son, James, 21. A popular, talented student with apparently everything to live for - who 13 months ago ago committed suicide.

ON THE RUN: Replacing my pastry with porridge

8:20am Tuesday 4th March 2008

LIKE millions of women in the Western world I adhere to the philosophy that any calories ingested at the weekend or on holiday don't count.

	No shame in feeling depressed
	9:27am Tue 26 Feb 08
	IT has been described as one of the biggest disabilities, diseases or burdens across the globe and is known to affect more than one in six Britons at some point in their lives, although the real figure is undoubtedly much higher.

	THIS time, I’ll race round...
	8:56am Tue 19 Feb 08
	WHY do people set themselves the task of getting fit in January?

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