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What’s not top of mind for many people is that a number of familiar daily struggles are classic signs of iron deficiency. Persistent fatigue, restless sleep, anxious moods, palpitations, brain fog, heavy periods, hair loss, joint aches and mood swings — which we tend to normalise as just part of being human in the modern […]

Of the world’s environmental challenges, one of the most urgent is deforestation. It does not receive as much attention as it deserves and rarely makes the news headlines. Since peaking in the 1980s, its incidence has fallen, but it still affects about 10 million hectares of land per year. It also represents somewhere between 12 […]

Fitness is so universally recognised as a desirable trait that the word “fi t” has become a slang term meaning “attractive”. And yet … according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 66 per cent of adults over age 18 are either overweight or obese. The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures from 2023 regarding […]

Like many people, I spend a lot of time online. And by online, I mean scrolling on social media. Platforms that used to feel very personal, filled with the lives of my close friends and people I knew, now seem dominated by reels of people I’ve never met, showing me how wonderful their lives are. […]

Wellbeing reader Mikhailla Fitzgerald always considered herself the lucky one. Then, at 23, she lost her three-day-old son to Group B Strep. Here she reflects on how grief and pain can coexist with luck, purpose and a beautiful life. I’d always considered myself the lucky one. In life, I had been somewhat privileged through the […]