Women who struggle to fall asleep or wake up often ‘gorge on calorific foods’

Women who sleep poorly tend to eat more and have a lower-quality diet, a study shows.  Researchers tracked 500 womens’ sleep, finding those who take a long time to fall asleep eat more calories every day. Those who wake up a lot throughout the night tend to eat fattier foods.  The researchers believe a lack … Read more

Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn on her struggle to be a good mother and have a pop career

Tracey Thorn was recently having breakfast with her husband Ben Watt in their Hampstead home. The couple have been together personally since meeting at the University of Hull in 1981, and professionally since starting the musical duo Everything But The Girl a year later. As a band, they had four top ten singles and their … Read more

Children who grow up near busy streets are twice as likely to struggle to communicate 

Children who live near busy roads are at a higher risk of having developmental delays, a new study finds. Researchers say that kids who live less than one-third of a mile away from high-traffic roads such as interstates and highways were twice as likely to score lower on tests of communication skills in infancy and … Read more