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Tired, irritable, depressed — those are just three symptoms associated with a state of fatigue. And while lack of sleep due to circumstances can account for occasional stints of acute fatigue, chronic fatigue may be a symptom of a health issue that should be treated rather than ignored.

The seeming inability to remember anyone’s name or forgetting a task the moment after you’ve decided it needs performing are among the frustrating, if familiar, daily signs of aging. Memory loss isn’t just associated with those dreaded ‘senior moments’ however.

It’s a daily struggle to keep stress at bay. Those shoulders do tend to creep up on us through the course of the day, rising to somewhere around our ears by noon. To cope with the various and largely inevitable work-life conflicts we face daily, many of us find relief in a post-work glass of wine or beer.

Maybe more than most things, humour is a truly subjective matter — falling into the what-you-talkin’-about-Willis?-category, which, by the way, isn’t funny. For everyone who thinks that Sacha Baron-Cohen is the bomb, there is an unsmiling counterpart who thinks that the word bomb in his case is a verb.

If recent research is reliable then it seems that gender equality brings out the best in men when it comes to mate selection. As for women, well, the more parity we enjoy the more shallow our choices remain concerning the men we prefer and subsequently target.