Sipping champagne, I gazed out of the window at South Africa’s wide open farmlands, rugged mountains, arid desert and pink flamingoes. Feeling peckish, I picked up the telephone and dialled my personal butler. ‘Hello Mxolisi. May I have a plate of sandwiches, please?’ Within minutes he arrived, in his livery and pristine white gloves, bearing … Read more
Wall Street King Jamie Dimon is ‘recovering well’ after emergency heart surgery By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 The ‘King of Wall Street’ Jamie Dimon is recovering well after emergency heart surgery, JP Morgan said. Dimon, who has led the US … Read more
Just half a teaspoon of olive oil a day could cut the risk of a heart attack by a fifth, a study has shown. Harvard researchers studied the health of nearly 100,000 people over 24 years and found higher olive oil consumption was beneficial to heart health. Most experts agree olive oil – especially extra … Read more
Margaux is explaining how babies drink champagne before they drink milk. ‘Really,’ she assures me, ‘it’s a tradition that goes back generations. A family member puts a drop or two on to the baby’s lips after it is born.’ Margaux, 25, was born and grew up in Reims, in the heart of the French Champagne region. … Read more
Noughts + Crosses Rating: Villages By The Sea Rating: Every generation remakes Romeo And Juliet in its own image. In the Fifties there was West Side Story, with its fabulous music and whirling petticoats, set against a backdrop of gang violence in New York. The Nineties gave us Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic, … Read more
Onward (U) Verdict: Another Pixar triumph Rating: Worryingly for those of us who remember it like it was yesterday, or at any rate the day before yesterday, this year marks a quarter of a century since Pixar burst into cinema-goers’ consciousness with the sublime Toy Story. Since 1995, those supremely gifted animators, writers and directors … Read more
Eggs will not increase your heart disease or stroke risk as previously feared, a thirty-year study has found. Because of their cholesterol content, eggs have long been the subject of fierce debate around their role in causing heart problems. But scientists say they have finally cracked the case – confirming that there is no link. … Read more
The family at the heart of the epicentre of the Coronavirus in the UK are a husband and wife whose son attends a £5,000 a term prep school in Surrey, Mail Online can reveal. The couple have been confirmed as having the Covid-19 infection and have led to other parents being placed in self isolation … Read more
Recently I’ve been having heart palpitations which wake me at night. Most worrying is when my heart misses a beat and I lie there and fear it will stop altogether. Could you shed some light on this? Michael Byrne, Carlisle. This must be unsettling and my suggestion is that further investigation is needed to get … Read more
Middle-aged shift workers who don’t go to bed at the same time every night are twice as likely to develop heart disease, study warns Shift workers aged 45+ without regular bedtime ‘more likely to get heart disease’ Research shows people with the most irregular sleep duration doubled their risk Almost 2,000 men and women were … Read more