Parents need to start talking to their tweens about the risks of porn
Feb 20, 2018 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Editors note: This article includes references to graphic sexual content that may be inappropriate for some readers. Today teenagers are viewing far more pornography than their parents realize. And the porn theyre...
How the digitalisation of everything is making us more lonely
Feb 08, 2018 14:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Technology
The UK government recently appointed its first minister of loneliness. The move came in response to increasing concern of a loneliness epidemic sweeping Western society. Psychologists define loneliness as a subjective,...
I've been diagnosed with iron deficiency, now what?
Feb 08, 2018 13:25 pm UTC| Health
Iron deficiency is the most common nutrient deficiency in the developed world, affecting around one in three women of reproductive age. It can develop when iron intakes or iron absorption rates are unable to meet the...
How labels like 'addict' and 'junkie' mask class contempt for drug users
Feb 08, 2018 13:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Terms such as drug user, addict or the blatantly pejorative junkie, dope head or stoner, are loaded with moral bias. They suggest that people who consume psychoactive substances are mentally weak and dangerous when in...
New App Equipped With AI Could Help Treat Depression
Feb 01, 2018 05:00 am UTC| Technology Health
Depression is one of the most widely misunderstood psychological conditions in the modern world. A lot of people simply assume that its about people feeling said. Unfortunately, it goes a lot deeper than that since it can...
Five supplements that claim to speed up weight loss - and what the science says
Jan 30, 2018 13:26 pm UTC| Health
When you google weight loss the challenge to sort fact from fiction begins. These five supplements claim to speed up weight loss, but lets see what the evidence says. 1. Raspberry ketones Raspberry ketones, sold as...
How neoliberalism is damaging your mental health
Jan 30, 2018 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law Health
There is a widespread perception that mental ill health is on the rise in the West, in tandem with a prolonged decline in collective well-being. The idea that there are social and economic causes behind this perceived...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight