The real estate industry is sometimes viewed with suspicion - no doubt because some of its entrenched processes appear to essentially betray the interests of the vendor.

1. Shelley Bridgeman: Why are villas so popular? (78 comments)

Our desire for salty food is at odds with our health, writes Dave Shaw. It’s the spinoff from a dietary preference in the stone age era, clashing with the modern day food industry.

1. Don't be a food label fool (3 comments)

If someone called me bossy I'd interpret it as a compliment, Shelley Bridgeman explains.

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Our generation has accepted obsessive-compulsive tendencies as part of modern life. Lee Suckling explains.

1. Lee Suckling: Making friends after 25 is hard (50 comments)

It's time to reclaim periods as a healthy, normal part of life. There's nothing shameful about them, Shelley Bridgeman writes.

1. Blog: Loving the skin you're in (18 comments)

There is no such thing as "superfoods", only "super-diets", writes Dave Shaw.

1. Are supermarkets fooling you? (1 comments)

Let's be real about this - families can chat happily about the same-sex relationships of friends and celebrities, but will often have a different reaction when the gay relationship is suddenly in their own family - and it…

1. Jill Goldson: Why won't my partner commit?

"Spending the Kids' Inheritance" - or SKIing as it is sometimes called - is an increasingly popular phenomenon.

1. Unwary residents caught in trap

While bar-side identification was once as simple as "Definitely Straight", "Metro", and "Definitely Gay", we now have dozens of sub-cultures to wade through.

1. Lee Suckling: Things straight people can learn from gay people (2 comments)