I know how busy you are, and I know how expensive glossy magazines can seem in a world full of free online articles, not to mention free papers, so thank you for picking us up – and giving us some of your precious time, too. In return, every issue, the team and I work hard to ensure we’re giving you a valuable and special read that you can’t find anywhere else. Who you get your health information from is important: between us, the healthy team of qualified journalists have decades of experience interviewing leading health experts to really get to the heart of the stories that concern you. We always list our sources and we don’t give any advice without first getting it approved by an expert (generally the UK’s leading expert on that particular topic). I would urge you not to take any health advice from an article that doesn’t follow the same journalistic principles – no matter how fit and attractive the writer may look or how beautiful the website.
Elsewhere, we decided to swerve the traditional New Year, new you, new diet craze this issue. After the various shocks of 2016 – surely the oddest year I can remember – we felt we owed it to you to showcase all the very many things we have to feel positive about. Hence, in this gloomiest of months, our #feelgood issue. It may be darkest winter, and Christmas is over, but we still have plenty of healthy reasons to celebrate!