Every day, we make choices about our diet, exercise, sleep, interaction with others and management of stress. These small, seemingly innocuous picks really add up, significantly affecting how we age ...

At the start of a new year, it's hard not to get swept up in the allure of New Year's resolutions: Setting goals you want to achieve or pinpointing the bad habits you want to break. For many people, ...

Did you make any resolutions this new year? If you did, are you keeping to them? Well done if you are. Polling in America suggests half of new-year resolvers give up by the end of March. More rigorous ...

Scientists' advice on breaking bad habits. Sept. 7, 2011 — -- We humans are creatures of habit, both good and bad, and while habits can free us from having to rethink everything we do, every time ...

Maybe you bite your nails or tug at your hair. Or, you’re drinking more than you’d like or checking your phone way too often. We all have habits that can seem to take over our lives, and despite ...

Don’t try to interrupt a bad habit. Instead, give in … and then think about how you feel about what you’re doing. I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane ...

Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

Stuggling to break free from addiction and old habits? There's help. Many of us are stuck in our ways, refusing to embrace new and healthier patterns of behaviour. And it's not because we don't care ...