Anna Maxted

London

Journalist and Author at Freelance

Journalist at Motormouth Arabia

journalist, mother to 3 boys, author of 7 novels; A Tale of Two Sisters, Being Committed (Random House, Harper Collins)

Articles

It’s official! Choccies and red wine are part of your ‘flavonoid 5-a-day’

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted

Good news if you’re feeling shifty about the amount of red wine and chocolate you’ve guzzled over the half-term break (or your adult life): you may have inadvertently been on a health binge. Turns out these so-called indulgences might count as two of your five-a day.
What the top doctor did to stop eating junk

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted
Doctors reveal exactly how much sex you need to reduce your risk of cancer - and the effect NOT having it does to your body

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Anna Maxted

The Bank Holiday is fast approaching but, this weekend, perhaps it’s time to ditch the DIY, cancel your plans for a country walk and spend time repairing your sex life instead. If you’re in a long-term relationship, chances are sizzling sex has slipped down the list of your priorities. In fact, it’s estimated that 15-20 per cent of long-term relationships are sexless or near-sexless, according to sex therapist Stephen Snyder MD, author of Love Worth Making.
Are you emotionally fit? Take the test

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted
My 'great rack' caused so many problems

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted
Fitness experts reveal EXACTLY how you should walk to lose weight

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Anna Maxted

As a nation, our feelings about walking are mixed. Some of us still harbour resentment at being hauled out as teenagers, post-Sunday lunch, to march over a windy heath by parents. Or time poor, we drive to the gym to do ‘real’ exercise. Or we buy into the myth that walking doesn’t count unless we rack up ten thousand steps, and think ‘Why bother?’Thankfully, huge strides have been made in understanding the impact of walking on our emotional and physical wellbeing.
This man can teach you how to argue (and keep your cool)

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted
Did processed meat cause my bowel cancer at 44?

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted

Lucie Morris-Marr turns 50 next month. "Big 5-0 in May," she says, marvelling. "I didn't think I was going to be celebrating that." A fair assumption. The award-winning investigative journalist was 44 when, after a year of on-off severe abdominal pain and misdiagnosis - bad sushi, diverticulitis - doctors found "a massive lime-sized" cancerous tumour in her colon.
We prefer our pets to partners

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Katie Glass |Anna Maxted
Getting a Good Night’s Sleep Doesn’t Have to be an Expensive Science Experiment...

2 months ago | airmail.news | Anna Maxted

Your body is designed for sleep, says the psychotherapist Heather Darwall-Smith. It’s not something you have to “perform.” It’s such an innate drive, if you’re sleep-deprived or even bored, you can drop off while doing 70 down the M25, she says. Notably, “The brain is off somewhere else.” Its effort isn’t required. “Biologically, your body knows how to sleep.”That’s not to minimize the utter despair and distress of insomnia.