JEANNE LOUISE CALMENT had the longest confirmed human lifespan on record: 122 years and 164 days. It seems that fate strongly approved of the way Madame Calment lived her life. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. When the Eiffel Tower was built, she was 14 years old. It was at this
Wellbeing
The therapeutic power of gardening
Can anxious minds find solace working with plants? A therapist and her husband, a garden designer, say yes. By Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 August 2020 IN MID-MARCH, in the tense week before the British government announced its belated coronavirus-induced lockdown, certain everyday products became extraordinarily hard to find. Panicked buyers swept up
Here’s why eating the same thing every day is a bad idea
Aged-care royal commission has had a third of the coverage of banks‘ bad behaviour
It doesn’t add up “A sad and shocking system that diminishes Australia as a nation”. “Inhumane, abusive and unjustified”. “Cruel and discriminating”. After 10 months of hearings and investigations into aged care, Commissioners Lynelle Briggs and the late Richard Tracy listed the most shocking findings in their interim report on Thursday: death from septicaemia
Healthy lifestyle may counteract genetic risk of dementia
Living a healthy lifestyle may help counteract a person’s genetic risk of dementia, according to new international research. THE STUDY WAS led by the University of Exeter in collaboration with researchers from the University of South Australia, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, published recently in JAMA and presented
Australian Red Cross looking for plasma donors
FOR DISTRICT BULLETIN readers who are already Red Cross Blood Service donors, or considering becoming a donor, and regularly visit, or work in Canberra’s Civic and Garran precincts, why not consider donating plasma? Plasma can be donated at the new Civic Plasma Donor Centre at 4 Mort Street, or if you
We can’t predict how bad this year’s flu season will be but here’s what we know so far
How are Australians eating healthier while living busier?
FOR THE AVERAGE Aussie, life is bustling with family commitments, a heavy workload and a hectic schedule; it’s all too easy for them to fall into the trap of eating mindlessly. Drinking too much coffee, eating multiple donuts at work, impulsively buying chips and chocolate bars from the supermarket because
Love is not a permanent state of enthusiasm
An interview with Esther Perel From the New Yorker Festival, the couples therapist and podcast host discusses infidelity, apologies, and the problem with wedding vows these days. THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST ESTHER Perel knows how to work a room. Since the publication of her first book, “Mating in Captivity” in 2006, she has travelled
