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Here we are just a few days into 2023! Have you made, or perhaps already broken, any New Year’s resolutions? Well, it’s not too late to get involved. There are plenty of good initiatives out there and here’s one which is designed to help you stick to a resolution for a full month, or at least try something new.The Veganuary challenge is pretty easy to understand. It’s a contraction of the words “vegan” and “January”, the idea being to go vegan for a month, cutting out all animal origin food from your diet. According to organisers, over 580,000 people from 209 countries across the world registered to take part last year, and that figure is expected to increase again in 2023.How long has the Veganuary movement been around? How can I join in? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I celebrate New Year’s at home and still have fun?Should we be worried about the Lensa AI avatar app?How does the 3-30-300 rule affect my mental health?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’re most likely familiar with the concept of Dry January, which started out in the UK in 2013 and has since become hugely popular. It involves not consuming a single drop of alcohol for the whole month of January. In 2022, record participation numbers were recorded, with over 130,000 people signing up with Alcohol Change to take part. On average, British people drink 9.8 litres of pure alcohol per year, according to figures released by the OECD in 2021. Right from the first few hours of cutting out alcohol, the body starts its detox process. You may get noticeable withdrawal symptoms, depending on how dependent your body is on alcohol. If you’re a moderate drinker, you may have a little trouble getting to sleep. If you drink more often, you might get headaches or break into a sweat. It’s often said that the first three days are the hardest.Is there really an impact in such a short space of time? What about from week two onwards? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I celebrate New Year’s at home and still have fun?Should we be worried about the Lensa AI avatar app?How does the 3-30-300 rule affect my mental health?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all know that the effects of tobacco on the human body are devastating. The World Health Organisation says that it kills more than 8 million people each year, making it one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever seen.It’s hardly surprising when you consider that cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemical substances, and at least 50 of them are carcinogens, meaning they are linked to an increased risk of cancer. Many people will attempt to quit smoking as part of their New year’s resolutions, and we’re here to provide some information on the best ways to do so. It seems so, at least according to the most recent large-scale study on the subject which was published by Jama Network Open in October 2022. If I give up, will my body ever fully recover? What different methods are out there? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I celebrate New Year’s at home and still have fun?Should we be worried about the Lensa AI avatar app?How does the 3-30-300 rule affect my mental health?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you noticed more of your friends talking about their star signs of late? Maybe they try to guess the sign of people they meet, or come out with unexpected references to “Mercury in retrograde” or “Saturn return” over dinner. Maybe you’re into it yourself; and you have an app which sends you horoscope notifications all day long. It wasn’t so long ago that most people would just read horoscopes in the paper for a laugh, but these days astrology seems to be all the rage. Dedicated webpages are getting more and more traffic, and there are even astrology based dating apps, like Ilios and Stars Align. Analysing human behaviour according to star and planet positions has existed for millenia across different civilisations, like the Mayas for example.Are we saying astrology has never been this popular before? What’s caused the resurgence then? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I celebrate New Year’s at home and still have fun?Should we be worried about the Lensa AI avatar app?How does the 3-30-300 rule affect my mental health?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Dear you, spending painful days pretending to be okay for someone else. You don't need to tell us everything... but how about just a little of it?" Imagine you’re in the bathroom at uni and you notice a message like that printed on the toilet roll. Pretty weird right?!Well that’s exactly the situation students in the Yamanashi region of Japan found themselves in, when authorities rolled out their new suicide prevention initiative. That’s one example of the messages that were thought out by mental health specialists, and the toilet rolls also feature the number of a suicide prevention helpline and soothing images, like a cat playing with a ball or a young girl underneath an umbrella.Why are they looking to help young people specifically? Are things worse in Japan than elsewhere in the world? What's the attitude towards mental health in Japan? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I celebrate New Year’s at home and still have fun?Should we be worried about the Lensa AI avatar app?How does the 3-30-300 rule affect my mental health?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heading out to celebrate the New Year can be great fun, but it can also be stressful, crowded and expensive. And it is not always possible you might live far from a town, have little children and no babysitter or maybe you are just not feeling up to it. Whatever the reason, here are some tips on how to ring in the new year from the comfort of your own home but still have fun! Being at home does not mean being alone. You could invite friends over for a dinner party, a game night or even just a film night. You can choose whether you want to dress up, keep it casual or even go for fancy dress. You can make it special by planning a meal and dressing the table or even decorating the house and of course planning the playlist. If you choose to host a games night it could be as simple as monopoly or scrabble or you could go all out and host a murder mystery party complete with roles to play and a killer to uncover.How can I still see friends but stay at home? What if my friends live far away? What if I just want to be alone? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I return unwanted gifts?Could the deep work technique help me concentrate better at work?What can I do to relieve heartburn?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Amber Minogue.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do You Really Know, Bababam's daily podcast, helps you understand the true meaning behind the trends, concepts and acronyms that are making headlines. This week, we're looking back at 10 words and phrases that have been on everyone's lips in 2022. From the Uber Files leak to "shrinkflation" in stores or "quiet quitting" at work, refresh your memory on some of the events and phenomena that best sum up the year gone by.In late June 2022, the US Supreme Court controversially overturned the landmark Roe vs Wade decision which for decades protected women’s freedom to have an abortion anywhere in the country. Five of the six conservative judges sitting on the supreme court voted in favour of the reversal, ensuring a majority. US President Joe Biden said it was a “sad day for the court and for the country” and called on Americans to elect local candidates who will restore abortion rights. How quickly will the impact of the decision be felt? How did the Roe vs Wade ruling first come around? Why has everything changed now? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I return unwanted gifts?Could the deep work technique help me concentrate better at work?What can I do to relieve heartburn?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’re a big social media user, you’ve likely seen an influx of illustrated selfies on your feeds in the last month or so. All of a sudden, your friends started posting self-portraits showing them transformed into fairy princesses, anime characters or astronauts.These impressive images might look like works of art, as if they’ve been carefully hand-crafted by hand. But they’re actually the result of Prisma Lab’s Lensa AI app, and more specifically the newly added Magic Avatar feature. It promises to “make your selfies look better than you ever imagined” and as of December 2022 became the top free-to-download app in the US App Store.How does it work? What’s not to like then? What about personal data? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I return unwanted gifts?Could the deep work technique help me concentrate better at work?What can I do to relieve heartburn?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our increasingly urbanised world, it’s important to make time for reconnecting with nature. The latest study to grab our attention in this area was conducted by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and published in December 2022. It looked into the so-called 3-30-300 rule, which was theorised by Spanish forest researcher Cecil Konijnendijk in 2021. It's made up of three criteria, which each give our mental health a boost: we should have three trees in view from our home, live in a neighbourhood with 30% tree canopy cover and live within 300 metres of a park. Researchers interviewed over 3,000 residents in Barcelona and found that less than 5% of them were lucky enough to live in an area which met all three of the 3-30-300 rule’s criteria. Indeed, 22.4% of respondents had none of the elements. Interesting, so what did we learn from the latest study? What is it about green spaces that makes us calmer? What are the best ways to apply the 3-30-300 rule? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I return unwanted gifts?Could the deep work technique help me concentrate better at work?What can I do to relieve heartburn?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s great to be remembered by friends, colleagues, and family at Christmas, but despite people’s best intentions, they don't always get you what you want. So now the festive season is over and the wrapping is off it might be time to take some of those gifts back rather than let them gather dust in a cupboard. If you bought something, in-store or online and it is faulty then by law you can get a full refund if you return it within 30 days. After 30 days, the store's obliged to provide a repair or a replacement. However, legally speaking, you do not have the right to return an item because you don't like it. That said most shops have their own, generous returns policy so it is worth finding out what their terms are before you try and return an unwanted item and expect the money back if they only offer exchanges or store credit.What are your rights? What’s a gift receipt? What can you do if you can’t return it? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions !To listen to the latest episodes, click here:How can I protect my mental health during the holiday season?Why does Christmas boost our libido?Is Santa Claus red because of Coca Cola?A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Amber Minogue.In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices