Only one in 10 people wash their hands after going to the toilet yet as a society we have never found the idea of germs more disgusting.
They’re big business, but not all consumers seem to be aware that some health drinks contain more sugar than a bottle of Coke.
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/ 25 February 2011
"Gossip," the grande dame of rumourmongers, Liz Smith, once noted, "is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
In the West placentas are usually incinerated, but placenta-planting ceremonies are becoming more common.
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/ 18 February 2008
The days following Heath Ledger’s death have swirled with speculation, with tales of hard drugs and prescription pills, of anti-depressants and sleeping tablets. Amid all the mutterings about heroin abuse and cocaine addiction, it is the sleeping pills that seem most startling. Ledger, plagued by the chronic insomnia that often accompanies depression, had apparently come to rely on medication to get him to sleep.
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/ 20 October 2006
Kiran Desai’s Booker-winning novel tracks from the Himalayas to Manhattan, just like the author. She speaks to Laura Barton.