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Tammy Dowling was a single mom juggling 12-hour days at the office. She struggled for ten years and then, in 2009, reached her breaking point. “I was at a point where I just wanted to surrender,” said Mrs Dowling, the former director of a day care c...

Five years ago Karen Sexton’s father spotted an unusual mole on her back. He encouraged her to get it removed, never thinking that it might be cancerous. “He just thought it looked funny,” the 33-year-old said. “I also thought it was just an ordinary...

Vicki Abraham was addicted to sugar. She couldn’t quit it no matter what she tried. Things got worse when she fell into a major depression 18 months ago while living in Sydney, Australia. She turned to liquorice drops and ice cream to help deal with...

You know the formula for healthy living: eating right and exercising. So what’s stopping you? That’s a question Bermudian Fiona Cosgrove has helped thousands of fitness professionals in Australia get to the bottom of so they can get their clients t...

Do you shiver while you work? A study by a pair of Dutch scientists has made it official: the typical office air conditioner is way too cold for women. The scientists at Maastricht University found most thermostats were set according to 1960s guideli...

Lorraine Beasley’s plan was to work as a nurse for 12 months and then leave Bermuda to travel the world. But she loved the job so much she stayed for 43 years. The 65-year-old, a mother of three, will finally leave King Edward VII Memorial Hospital...

It is easy to judge fat people. The thin among us assume they sit around stuffing their faces with junk food, and that they are lazy and never exercise. According to Ayesha Peets Talbot, those preconceptions are not fair. The 34-year-old medic is the...

Melville and Birtha Elliot cruised to Bermuda in the 1970s, not realising it would be their legacy to their family. Both have since passed away, but their love for the Island has lived on through their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren....

Marcel Westerlund’s patient was declared a lost cause after he slashed his throat. Hypnotherapy revealed he’d only done so because he was wracked with guilt; he’d been a mercenary in a previous life. “He had been responsible for killing men, women a...

Wander Hodgson’s poor health had turned her into a walking time bomb. She’d survived a bout with breast cancer but was diabetic and overweight; at her heaviest, she weighed 400lbs. In her early 40s, she decided to do something about it. “I wa...