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    Leaving a gap of two hours in between eating your dinner and going to bed isn't necessarily beneficial for your health, a new scientific study has suggested. It's commonly believed that eating shortly before bed can have a long-term detrimental impact on your wellbeing, leading to issues such as an increased risk of cancer. However, researchers from the Graduate School of Health Sciences at Okayama University in Japan have seemingly debunked this claim, stating that leaving a two-gap between your last meal of the day and your bedtime is unlikely to affect your blood glucose levels. The team assessed the group's eating regimes in addition to other lifestyle factors such as their weight, how fast they eat, how much physical activity they partake in and whether they s...

    People will be able to check whether their partners have been domestic abusers under new legistlation. Clare's Law which is named after a mother who was murdered by her ex is set to be unveiled tomorrow. Prime Minister Theresa May will announce the move as part of a host of legal reforms, The Sun on Sunday reports. George Appleton, 40, strangled 36-year-old Clare Wood, from Salford, and set her on fire after they met online. Ms Wood was oblivious to the fact that he'd served a three-year prison sentence for harassing another woman. The reform that bears her name can be used by both sexes and encompasses 'economic' as well as physical abuse. Economic abuse is when abusers use money or access to transport to control their victim. The law also makes way for the ap...

    I was 11 when my parents separated. A “bad age”, people sometimes say, in that sagacious tone, when the topic comes up. It rarely does any more, because to have divorced parents is unexceptional these days. A “broken home” (file this term in the glossary along with “bad age” and “child of divorce”) leaves an indelible mark on a person, we are told. Yet alongside the many false assumptions peddled about the impact of absent or single parents on childhood, there are also pieces of research about divorce that are worthy of our attention. The latest, from the Institute of Education, suggests that parental separation is more likely to harm the mental health of children if they are aged at least seven when the split occurs. It looked at 6,245 children and young people in t...

    A sex deathbed. A dry spell. A sexless marriage. A dating drought. Whatever you want to call a dip in sexual frequency, most of us have had the anxiety-inducing thought that perhaps we're not having enough sex, and that's a very bad thing. Divulge this information to some well-meaning, honest friends and they might warn you that a dry spell is a sign that there's something wrong with your relationship, and you better figure it out before it's too late! But does this extremely common relationship phase really mean that you're doomed? In other words, can a relationship survive without sex? The answer depends on a few factors, namely: how long you've been in this relationship and whether or not you're both cool with the lack of sex, says Lisa Brateman, LCSW, a relation...

    Common medicines are in increasingly short supply according to reports from pharmacists who warn they are being forced to pay over the odds to secure drugs for their patients. While shortages occurred two years ago, some experts warned that preparations for a no-deal Brexit including government directions to key drug manufacturers to stockpile a six week supply may be pushing up prices. Experts said the chaos in Westminster could mean patients, hospitals and other parts of the supply chain might also be stockpiling medicines something the government has urged against. Gareth Jones, from the National Pharmacy Association, told the BBC: Uncertainty over Brexit appears to be a significant factor. There are now 80 medicines, including blood pressure drugs, antidepress...

    Sex Education introduces us to Otis, a socially-awkward and sexually-repressed 16-year-old who lives with his mum, Jean, a sex and relationships therapist. Despite his own lack of experience, Otis winds up inadvertently following in his mum’s footsteps for his schoolmates, after helping someone through a rather mortifying sexual problem with a bit of advice he picked up from his mum. Already a hit with viewers and critics alike, the show has sparked a lot of conversation online, and if you’re yet to tune in, this is why it’s already proved so popular... 1. The aesthetic The first thing we have to say about ‘Sex Education’ is that it looks great. The entire show has a total’ 80s vibe to it (it took us a full 20 minutes into the first episode to realise that it is...

    The concept of finding a soulmate has been thrown around for years. But what is a soulmate, anyway? The idea behind it is simple: There’s someone out there who is perfectly suited for you and only you. While the idea of finding the one is romantic, it's just not realistic. In fact, many relationship therapists flat-out hate the idea. The concept of finding your soulmate has ruined some marriages, says psychologist Barton Goldsmith, PhD, author of The Happy Couple. The reality is, there are probably 10 or 20 people on the planet that would work for you, maybe more. But there’s no one exact right person for you for the rest of your life, he explains. Manhattan-based licensed clinical psychologist Joseph Cilona, PsyD, agrees, calling the concept toxic. Subscribing to...

    Super gonorrhea hit the headlines after a British tourist contracted a case described as ‘the world’s worst in Thailand last year but the infection has now reached Britain. Two women have contracted the infection, with one believed to have been infected in the UK, according to Pubilc Health England. Both women have since been cured after the infections were resistant to main therapy, and Public Health England is now investigating if the cases are linked. The infection is usually treated with the antibiotics ceftriaxone and azithromycin but the bacterium in these two cases was resistant to the drugs. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warns that cases of extensively drug resistant gonorrhea are on the rise Experts have warned that there’...

    Putting the wrong fuel in your car sounds like the kind of problem that happens to somebody else. But, according to the RAC, it happens every three minutes in the UK – affecting around 150,000 motorists every year. It’s surprisingly easy to do, especially when it concerns putting petrol in a diesel car, because a petrol pump nozzle will fit into most diesel car filler caps. That’s not to say it’s impossible to put diesel in a petrol car, but the diesel nozzle is larger than the majority of petrol filler necks, making it far less common. In both cases, do not start the engine. The severity of the problem will depend on how much incorrect fuel you have put in the tank and whether you’ve put petrol in a diesel car or diesel in a petrol car, so we’ll take each scenario ...

    Avocado on toast might be off the menu. British and Irish restaurants are increasingly ditching them over concerns that Latin American imports are damaging the environment and funding Mexican drug cartels. Growers in Michoacán, west Mexico, have had their land seized by drug lords who are reported to be earning £150m a year by selling the so-called blood avocados to British traders. The Wild Strawberry Cafe in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, once served 1,000 avocado dishes each week. The owner, Katy Brill, made the controversial decision to stop because of ethical concerns over imports, the cartel reports among them. Primarily I just felt that it didn’t fit with my ethos of using local food, she says. If you can eat with the season and source your food locally, ...