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Jan 1, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Zoe Williams |Rachel Dixon |Nigel Kendall |Arwa Mahdawi |Amy Fleming |Sam Pyrah | +9 more
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
I love to run, but ask me about my running times or distances and I will have no idea. For me, running is about squeezing exercise into a busy schedule, clearing my head and being in nature. I don’t need to measure it. But unfortunately I am not immune to the oh-so-pleasing dopamine injection of unboxing a new bit of wearable tech, personalising the app for hours and thinking this might just change my life – the new, calmer, fitter, stronger, smarter me dangling tantalisingly within reach.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
Nine years ago, Nikki Schultek, an active and healthy woman in her early 30s, experienced a sudden cascade of debilitating and agonising symptoms – including cognitive and breathing problems and heart arrhythmia – and was investigated for multiple sclerosis. But three brain scans and numerous X-rays later, there was still no diagnosis or treatment plan. “It was like living in a nightmare, imagining not watching my children – three and five years old – grow up,” says Schultek.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
I was following orangutans in Borneo with my wife, Cheryl Knott, a primatologist who has spent 30 years working in Gunung Palung national park, in the Indonesian part of Borneo. I am a biologist by background, and did my PhD research in rainforest ecology in Borneo, before I went into photography and film-making.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
I started working on a series called Girls Gotta Eat in 2016. It was born out of anguish. A perfect storm had been brewing. My eldest child was getting ready to go to college and Trump was in office, beginning to wreak havoc on the US, particularly the minds of self-possessed, authority-questioning women.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
Nothing has been able to stop smartphones taking over our lives and those of our children. But the inevitable backlash is in full flow. It’s not only about family arguments over screen-time restrictions, or the often futile efforts of parents to minimise exposure to adult, radicalising or consumerist content.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
Judy Blume’s novel about early female puberty, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, depicts a group of 12-year-old girls eagerly willing their first periods to arrive, impatient to be in on the unfathomable mystery of monthly bleeds. Little do they know that the mysteries surrounding their ovaries and wombs will only ever deepen, in ways unique to each of them.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
SleepDON’T get a sleep tracker for serious problemsThey are fine if you are just curious about how your lifestyle affects you. “Lots of people are interested in measuring the effects of coffee late in the day, or the impact of alcohol on sleep,” says Alice Gregory, professor of psychology at Goldsmiths specialising in sleep. “And that’s all good.” But they are not helpful if sleep has become a real issue. In fact, they could make things worse.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
sciencefocus.com | Amy Fleming
In the UK, the NHS recommends six to eight glasses, or up to 1.2 litres of fluids, a day, pointing out that we also get water from food. Harvard Medical School recommends four to six cups a day. But it’s the more extreme two litres of water a day advice that has won the internet. In 2016, the idea that getting most of your liquids from water is more beneficial was debunked by Dr Stuart Galloway, an associate professor in physiology, exercise and nutrition at the University of Stirling.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Amy Fleming
I always take my camera when I go to a new place. I observe how people relate to each other – whether alone among strangers, or with their families or friends. I’m checking out body language, waiting for uplifting and sincere human moments, that special touch or kiss. This image of young lovers – a truly beautiful moment – was photographed in Pisa, Italy, in 1999. All these young couples were sprawled out on the grass making out. It was a fabulous sight.
