From fitness to friendship - ideas that changed the way we treat our bodies and minds
The ice bucket challenge became a worldwide phenomenon in 2014
In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote the self help book - How to Win Friends and Influence People
How the life-saving method to stop choking was developed
The first World Laughter Day took place in Mumbai, India in January 1998
How engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his team made the EpiPen, the lifesaving allergy device
In 1983, scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris first discovered the HIV virus
How the drug tamoxifen became a global success in breast cancer treatment
The UK’s National Health Service started on 5 July 1948
Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail
In 2001, Colombian born choreographer Beto Perez created Zumba and it was all by accident
In 1986, protests against McDonalds in Rome led to an anti-fast food revolution.
In 2000, an American personal trainer invented CrossFit
In 2010, Uruguay was taken to court by a tobacco company for its trailblazing smoking ban
How a particular form of psychotherapy became popular for treating anxiety and depression
The contraceptive pill was approved for use in the US in 1960, but in Japan it was 1999.
In 1951, Dr Carl Djerassi created the Pill's active ingredient from Mexican wild yams.
The discovery by Dr George Papanicolaou in 1928 which led to the smear test
Dr Ruth Westheimer first became popular on a radio show in New York in the early 1980s
Arnold Schwarzenegger and bodybuilding in the 1960s.
The pill meant reliable, convenient family planning - and sexual freedom
In 2002, a landmark study on Buddhist monks showed that meditation can alter the brain.
How one of the mainstays of vegetarian cuisine was launched in 1982
In the 1960s and 70s, thousands of westerners travelled to India by overland bus.
The fight between Big Pharma and South Africa over the right to import cheap drugs.
