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Why do some people never get depressed?
Why do some people never get depressed?
By Geoff Watts BBC World Service
Feel free to have sex after heart attack
Feel free to have sex after heart attack, study says
Worried about having sex after a heart attack? There is good news.
The American Heart Association's latest guidelines say if you are healthy enough to walk up a few steps exhaustion, you're fit enough to have sex.
The guidelines say sexual activity with a person's usual partner is comparable to mild to moderate physical activity in the range of three to four metabolic equivalents (METS), or the equivalent of climbing two flights of stairs or walking briskly for a short duration.
How active are you?
Do our quiz and and find out your fitness level.
1. Where do you live?
a) In a house with one or more flights of stairs
b) In a ground-floor flat or bungalow
c) In a first-floor (or above) flat - and I usually use the stairs
d) In a first-floor (or above flat) - and I usually use the lift
2. What is your main mode of transport?
a) Public transport (bus, train or tube/metro)
b) Car or motorbike
c) Bicycle
d) Walking
3. For how long would you walk or cycle in a working day?
a) Less than 10 minutes
Supergran celebrates
Supergran celebrates 85th birthday with 126 of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren
Beryl has 10 children, 48 grandchildren, 73 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren – with another on the way.
The supergran invited them to her 85th birthday party and 126 attended – with 89 of them joining her for this picture.
Retired cleaner Beryl has 136 living descendants over four generations. She knows all their names and gives them £5 each at birthdays and Christmas.
Which of your friends can you call on?
We may have thousands of online pals, but a survey suggests we've just two in the real world.
So, how many of your Facebook friends did you splash the price of a postage stamp on this festive season?
Just two lucky pals actually made the cut for a Christmas card, if a new study is to be believed.
With hundreds and even thousands of friends and followers on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, on the surface most of us have never been more popular.
Treehouse fun in France
By John Scheerhout
Our accommodation was pretty sparse: three beds shoe-horned into one room, no electricity and a loo that had saw-dust instead of flushing water.
We weren’t about to complain, though. Actually, the standard of living was rather elevated.
Ever since man came down from the trees, people with childish dispositions have been trying to climb back up.
94-year-old fitness fanatic with his own workout DVD
Meet Stan Thomas, the 94-year-old fitness fanatic with his own workout DVD
Running: tips for withstanding winter
Keep on running: tips for withstanding winter
Dark mornings, icy pavements, gusting winds and sub-zero temperatures ... there are so many reasons to stop running at this time of year. Sam Murphy explains how to take the pain out of winter exercise
Sex, exercise and the arts make us happiest
Sex, exercise and the arts make us happiest — or so says an iPhone survey
Sex makes people happiest — enough said. Exercise, with its release of endorphins, comes in second place. But the third-best activity for happiness, according to a British iPhone survey, is a night at the theater, a concert or a dance performance — and other arts ranked in the next four places on this list.
Women to replace men as main breadwinner
Men will soon lose their traditional role as the main breadwinner of the family to women, according to Britain's head of university admissions.
New research have revealed that young women aged between 22 and 29 are now being paid more on average per hour than their male counterparts.
Women's average hourly pay is now just over 10 pounds an hour, compared with just under 10 pounds an hour for men.
Another survey from the Chartered Management Institute found women bosses in their 20s were now paid more than men doing the same jobs.