In the health-obsessed twenty-first century, barely a day goes by without a radical new health scare, miracle cure or scientific discovery being heralded by the media. But have you ever wanted to know the truth behind the attention-grabbing headlines? Perhaps you have wondered whether having sex before sports hinders your performance? Or whether celery really does contain negative calories? Or why yawning is so contagious?

Don’t go to work on Mondays holds the answers to all these questions and many, many more, encompassing topical – yet timeless, subjects from genetics to nature, from exercise to the environment, and from sleep to sex. Sorting medical fact from fiction and ruthlessly laying bare the truth behind the old wives’ tales, conventional-wisdom cures and medical mysteries, it discloses the experts’ answers on a myriad of hot topics – and, of course, explains why it’s such a bad idea to go to work on Mondays ...