Are you planning to make some New Year’s Resolutions on 1 January? Are you finally going to get healthy, fit, lose weight, quit smoking,start cooking, cut out the sugar? There is something about the start of a new year that makes us think we can make the changes we want or need; it’s the sense...

When I still had my period (I’m menopausal now, so that time is fortunately over), my first day used to be horrible. I would get terrible cramps, that sometimes made me throw up. All I wanted to do was go to bed with a hot water bottle. And as I’m talking to women about their...