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Meditative Gaming For Mental Health
Jenessa Williams explores the surprising role that video games can play in managing our mental health
Home Remedies From Around The World
These 12 folk treatments are proven to work
STING “I Make Records Out Of Love And Curiosity”
Sting returns to a place of collaborative creativity with the release of his new album Duets; even if, in almost every other way, he continues to find comfort, innocence and improvement in blissful isolation
Living With Hyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis is excessive sweating but carries a heavy, invisible burden—it’s not just damp patches and deodorants
YOU'VE GOT TO MOVE IT MOVE IT
We hear endlessly how good exercise is for our health, but you might be surprised to know just how good
If I Ruled The World Mark Galeotti
Dr Mark Galeotti is a scholar and writer, whose career has stretched from being attached to the British Foreign Office to teaching about organised crime in Moscow
In One Ear
This month, Olly Mann ponders the sentimentality of forgotten audios, and why he won't be throwing them out
Boy George I REMEMBER…
Boy George (59) is a British singer, songwriter, DJ and fashion designer, best known as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. Here, he looks back on growing up in south-east London, Band Aid and overcoming drug addiction
14 Books Helping Our Key Workers Survive
Books are valuable for so much more than simply reading, they're for sharing, escaping, learning and growing.
Books That Changed My Life
Writer Robert Thorogood is the brains behind the hit BBC series Death in Paradise. His latest novel, The Marlow Murder Club, is available now (HQ, £12.99)
READER'S DIGEST RECOMMENDED READ: Canine Companionship
An in-depth look at the long, often surprising history of one of the most enduring bonds of all
March Fiction
Horror master Stephen King strikes again with a gripping story of a boy with special powers…
The Great Restaurant Reinvention
The past year has been turbulent for the restaurant industry but, writes Lizzie Enfield, the restaurant was born after a period of chaos and will survive this one, too
How To Paint Wooden Floorboards
Revive tired flooring with a lick of paint to give any room a quick and affordable makeover in just a few steps
Kate Moss I Remember…
Household name Kate Moss rose to fame in 1990 when her striking face caught the imaginations of fashion photographers everywhere. Countless Vogue covers and hundreds of runways later, the supermodel looks back on growing up in Croydon, being secretly shy and mastering the art of a shoot
9 Ways To Get Sleepy
Struggling to get some shut eye? You're not alone. These tips will help you to get some much-needed rest
I KNOW MY BODY
Over the past year, while the world has been combating a global health care crisis with the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a simultaneous ongoing crisis for Black women: health care discrimination
MY DOG THE WAR HERO
Before I adopted Dyngo, he spent nine months sniffing bombs and saving lives in Afghanistan. Could I help him settle back into civilian life?
Olivia Newton-John On Family, Fulfilment And Fuelling Your Own Health
Acclaimed actress and singer, Dame Olivia Newton-John, talks lockdown, finding her voice again and how alternative medicine has changed her life
COME ON IN, THE WATER'S COLD
More and more swimmers are embracing ice swimming as an actual sport. To make sense of the lunacy, writer Marty Munson dives in FROM MEN’S HEALTH
Body, Heal Thyself
Why do wounds mend more slowly as we age?
Comfort Food
A difficult diagnosis leaves the Mann family in a tough spot this month, but Olly has his coping mechanisms…
February Fiction
Both heartening and heart-breaking, our literary pick this month offers sensitive insights into childhood, chance encounters and how we can live our best lives
READER'S DIGEST RECOMMENDED READ: Surviving Auschwitz
One teenage boy’s long-lost account of the horrors and occasional glimmers of lights of life in a concentration camp
Don't Let Loyalty Cost You Cash
It’s a quality most of us prize in friends, but when it comes to your bills, does loyalty really pay?
Shakin' Stevens I REMEMBER…
Shaky was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s. Still charting each year with his Christmas classic, Merry Christmas Everyone, the Welsh singer shares his memories of an incredible career…
5 Truths About Toothache
Health & Fitness
The Gift Of Giving
This month, Dr Max Pemberton recalls one of the most difficult conversations he’s ever had to have
WINTER WOES
It’s what we've always suspected—cold weather makes some conditions worse.
What's Wrong With Our Nursing Homes?
A lot actually, says a Reader’s Digest report from around Europe