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

Did processed meat cause my bowel cancer at 44?

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

2 weeks 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.
We had kids and cut our hours. We're the female no-pension club

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted |Ali Hussain
I bought a £30 robot personal trainer and followed its instructions - here's what happened | Daily Mail Online

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

I learn from the App Store blurb: 'Designed by top health and fitness experts, Zing's AI Coach adapts to your needs, offering real-time insights and support for a transformative fitness journey.'
‘Diagnosing a child with autism or ADHD? There’s a lot of money to be made’

1 month ago | autism.einnews.com | Anna Maxted

In the Nineties, he notes, it was barely considered possible for kids to experience what we call depression — “they’re not cognitively developed enough”. Now, he says, “childhood depression is the most common diagnosis we make”. Between 2000 and 2018, ADHD diagnoses doubled for boys and trebled for girls. In addition, last year 248,000 people in England were receiving prescriptions for ADHD — a more than threefold rise from 81,000 in 2015.
The real damage of suppressed emotions, especially for men

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted
Can a £30 robot make you thin? It told me how fat I was and how much weight I have to lose, and gave me exercises. Here's what happened next: ANNA MAXTED | Daily Mail Online

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

I’m sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in my lounge, surrounded by dumbbells, it’s my first session with my very own personal trainer and he’s getting down to business by asking me what I want to achieve. We’ve already established that at 5ft 2 and weighing 48kg (7.5st), I’m a few pounds underweight. ‘Anna, I know building muscle is your main goal,’ says my PT.
I'm 55, eat well, don't smoke and exercise. Yet I also have osteoporosis

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted
How to be a good parent to your adult children

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Anna Maxted