Here's why a little daydreaming has powerful effects…■ Daydreaming occupies as much as one-third of our lives and the average thought lasts 14 seconds.■ The latest research by the University of British Colombia says that daydreaming occupies more complex areas of the brain than p...

. Very few children sleep in their own beds each and every night. One study at the Institute for Child Health in London found that 70 per cent of four- to 16-year-olds came to their parents’ bed at least once a week, and up to 47 per cent of toddlers

in life that it's very important how you look," says Andrew Hill, Professor of Medical Psychology at Leeds University. "And that it's good to be slim and bad to be fat. It's written large across our society on billboards, in ads, magazines, TV, even