Stressed-out Brits spend the equivalent of five years of their life worrying; researchers have revealed that the strains of modern life leave the typical adult losing around two hours a day to fretting over the high cost of living, feeling out of shape and mounting debt. Getting old, fears over job security and relationships issues [...]
Shopping with kids, bedtimes and long car journeys with youngsters in the back have emerged as a modern mums’ greatest stress triggers. The Top 20 also featured being constantly plagued by requests of ‘Can I have this?’, and tantrums mid-aisle when the answer is ‘no’ means supermarket shopping strikes fear into the heart of young [...]
The average adult spends the equivalent of almost a year of their life stuck in a queue, it has been revealed. A study of 2,000 Brits shows we will wait patiently (or not so patiently) whilst stuck in jams, waiting for the traffic lights or queuing for the toilet for a collective two hours and [...]
Middle class redundancies amid the double dip recession have been blamed for the high number of wives suffering from stress induced illnesses. Experts have revealed that over the last two years, scores of women have been struck down by agonising neck and back pain and headaches caused by ‘secondary stress’. The condition is most prevalent [...]
One in five Brits has never been on a holiday abroad, a study has revealed. Costs, hassle of dealing with immigration and passports and fears of exotic bugs and animals mean that more than a fifth of Brits have never set foot in a foreign country. No language barrier, being familiar with the culture and [...]
Camping holidays in the UK are less stressful than exotic holidays abroad, a study has revealed. Researchers have found families who stay local instead of jetting off to sunny foreign climes are more likely to arrive relaxed and ready to enjoy their holiday. Holiday-goers also find it easier to unwind without the worries of passports [...]
Six out of ten Brits regularly wake up in a bad mood, it has emerged. A study has found that typically, at least two mornings a week are blighted by black moods, which means over the course of our lifetime we wake up in a strop a staggering 6,292 times. The biggest cause for our grumpiness [...]
Sales is Britain’s baldest profession, according to new research. A study of 1,903 workers found six in 10 people who specialise in flogging goods suffer from some degree of hair loss – with either a receding hair line, thinning on the scalp or total baldness. Indeed, just over half of those people working in the sales [...]
