Lifestyle Archive

 My parents have decided that they will be working in two separate parishes. My father will be the head of an educational institution and my mother a leader at a government office. I notice that dad is 'girly-girly'. Would it be right for me to talk with him about that? I am 17.

Q: Doc, I am a guy who has recently got engaged to a beautiful and brilliant girl! We are having sex, though our parents do not know this! So please do not print anything which would give away our identities. My problem is this, I have very little...

My mother had a fleeting relationship with our neighbour. His wife lives abroad. Now he wants to give me gifts so I do not talk about what happened. I have refused the gifts and he is unhappy. I told him I would not talk. How do I get him to believe...

YOU MAY not be aware of it, but on average, you are constantly losing hair at an estimated rate of 100 hairs daily from the approximately 100,000 strands in your scalp.At any time, about 90 per cent of the hair on your head is actively growing, in a...

Q: I am not coping. I am not managing my weight. My clothes are tight on me and I am eating late at nights and often. I am not managing my home either. I get angry at my five-year-old son. He plays too much and does not study or do his homework. He...

AS A black physician practising medicine in Jamaica, where 90 per cent of the population is black, I have often wondered why people of colour living in the western world suffer so much more from a long list of diseases like diabetes, breast and...

Q My mother is a pain. She is studying for her graduate degree and I for my undergraduate at the same institution. She is giving the lecturers hell, and I am trying to hide from her when she arrives for classes in the holiday sessions. I am 17 and...

Q Dear Doc, I am 19 and female. Recently I had unprotected sex with my boyfriend on two nights straight. Each time, he ejaculated inside of me. The worst part was that I did not use any form of birth control.However, three days later, I saw my...

Q My 14-year-old daughter was involved in a fight at her school with a 12-year-old boy. The boy, who is bigger than her, calls her names because of her mixed heritage. She spoke with him about it while at the bus stop near the school and he came...