Let me tell you a little tale about a friend of mine and a visit to the doctor's... We'll call this friend Caroline... Wait a minute... that IS her name! Anyway, Caroline woke up one morning with little to no feeling in her right arm and leg, together with a sharp pain in her lower back. Over the next couple of days the numbness wore off and returned intermittently. A little spooky maybe, but the condition didn't worsen. It didn't go ..

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This week I've taken my life in my own hands... Not once, but twice. And there was nothing anyone could do to stop me. As Lara and the kids tearfully waved me off, I took a deep breath, and bravely entered the kitchen. There, armed with only a knife (all right, and a fork), I faced one of man's biggest dangers and against all the odds I've lived to tell the tale. Yep four rashers of bacon. Two on Monday and another couple last night. ..

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If Carlsberg made an audience for a modest little health letter, it would probably look a lot like you... Why? Because you're so involved and passionate about the Good Life Letter that you're the best type of reader I could wish for. Honestly, if I wasn't such a tough, exrugby playing alpha male, I'd probably cry. It's great to see so many of you writing in, keeping in touch, and sharing your views on how to enjoy a healthier life. Fir ..

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You should see me now... All I need is an axe and a tin hat, and I could audition for a remake of The Wizard of Oz... Because now that winter's showing itself again, my body seems to have seized up as much as The Tin Man's. Honestly, if Lara had a pair of ruby slippers, I'd ask her to oil my joints every morning and evening, because at the moment my rheumatism's being a right pain in the... Well, in the joints! You don't know how emba ..

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'Oooooh,' cooed Lara, peering over my shoulder. 'That's a snazzy subject line to get your readers REALLY excited!' The Queen of Sarcasm is referring, of course to my thrilling use of 'Glucosamine and chondroitin' as today's title. But hey ho, I don't care. I've had so many emails asking about more information on these two substances, I thought my inbox would explode. So I thought putting it in the title would get the right people reading. ..

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I think people deliberately come up with the most horrible names for diseases that they can think of... Take 'Jaw death' for instance. Yes, I know... ugh. It's a horrible term. But unfortunately, it's what many woman are getting these days. And a lot of high-priced lawyers argue that it's down to a drug called 'Fosamax'. This is an expensive drug prescribed to women with osteoperosis. But it now stands accused of being linked to a disease ca ..

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“I'm going to the Oscars in two weeks and I can't fit into the latest Dior dress!” I'm sure that sense of panic is familiar to all of us. Well, all right, maybe not exactly... If you swap 'going to the Oscars in two weeks' for 'going to down The Dug and Duck for a cheeky half', then that's a bit more like it in my case. (I'm not going to comment on the Dior dress - that's between me and Lara) Seriously though, we've all suffered those irra ..

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If I could find a way to cycle and type at the same time, I'd be whizzing round my office right now, writing today's Good Life Letter. Either that, or I'd have joined the circus. Because it's week two of my new bike riding regime and I have to say I absolutely love it for two reasons... First, the obvious one it keeps you fit and helps you lose weight. I've already shaved three pounds off my weight and I'm not counting my Christmas weight h ..

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So, school exams… Are they getting easier or not? It's an argument that's been raging for years, and now, much to the hilarity of my family, I'm going to put my tuppence worth in. Yes me, Ray Collins, proud owner of O-levels in English Language, Art and Geography, is going to enter the fray and say they are definitely, 100%-ly (did I mention I barely scraped English…?) getting easier. Because this week I read about the daftest lessons I've ..

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If Lara had turned on our camcorder this morning and filmed the first hour of my waking day, we'd have made a fortune... First, I slipped in the shower and put my left arm right through the shower screen. Luckily, I didn't injure myself physically. But my pride might need some stitches after my family rushed in to stare at me on the floor feebly trying to grab a towel. Second, I somehow managed to leave a huge handful of shaving foam behind ..

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