It sounds bizarre, but the length of time you are able to stand on one leg is a powerful predictor of how long you will live and how healthy you will be. When I mentioned this in a column last year, many of you wrote in to say how you had done – and you also … Read more
One of the most frustrating things about this pandemic, for many I expect, is the lack of certainty. Scientists across the world have responded with unprecedented speed in trying to unravel the secrets of Covid-19. But this is a new virus to humans. And, despite intense research, there are still fundamental things we don’t understand. … Read more
If you spend a lot of time on Twitter (and I do at the moment), you can end up reading some very odd claims. Apparently smoking protects against Covid-19, the virus is using the 5G mobile-phone network to spread, and eating raw garlic will keep corona at bay. Needless to say, many of the claims … Read more
Like many, I’ve long believed that our relentless use of social media is, for want of a better term, rotting our brains. Over-reliance on screens is compromising our physical health, so it can’t be good for our brains, either. I have a particular loathing for video games – a pursuit three of my children have … Read more
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY and his family have provided a guide to survive the Covid-19 lockdown by using up the supplies in your larder while still eating tasty and nutritious food.
Our lifestyle guru Dr Michael Mosley is too scared to look at how much money he’s lost due to the coronavirus outbreak. The doctor and TV presenter popularised the 5:2 diet and says writing his most famous book, The Fast Diet, was the smartest financial decision he ever made. But he invested most of the … Read more
Just like most other families, the Mosleys have been in lockdown for the past three weeks. There are four of us, including my wife Clare, one of our sons, Dan, 25 – who has recently recovered from Covid-19 – and our daughter, Kate, 19, who is back from university. We are very fortunate that the … Read more
Over the past month, I’ve mentioned a few times that our best hope, and perhaps the only way out of this pandemic, will be by creating a safe and effective vaccine. Only then will the world be able to get back to normal. And, in fact, a couple of weeks ago, just before the lockdown began, … Read more
A few weeks back, just as this pandemic struck Britain, I wrote that I was worried. I had been for some time, because this new coronavirus, to which we have no immunity, spreads frighteningly fast and can cause life-threatening illness. And people my age – I’m 62 – and older are at much higher risk … Read more
The speed at which Covid-19 has spread around the world and threatened our way of life is astonishing. At the end of December, less than three months ago, China first alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to a few ‘flu-like cases’ in Wuhan. By January 7 they had identified the cause: a coronavirus, part of a … Read more