Walking arm in arm, she places an arm tenderly on his tummy and looks up to capture his expression. This could be any loving couple.

Except this is Hollywood’s most famous singleton, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, her co-star in a new movie.

And the cameras have stopped rolling.

The pair’s behaviour while filming The Bounty has already prompted rumours they are dating and they were doing little to hide their feelings for one another yesterday.

Aniston, 40, and Butler, 39, who play an estranged couple in the romantic comedy, were pictured deep in conversation, totally oblivious to onlookers.

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Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance.

But in this week’s Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, of the department of mental health sciences at University College London, says they actually put people into "drug-induced states".

If you’ve seen a doctor about emotional problems some time over the past 20 years, you may have been told that you had a chemical imbalance, and that you needed tablets to correct it.

It’s not just doctors that think this way, either.

Magazines, newspapers, patients’ organisations and internet sites have all publicised the idea that conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be treated by drugs that help to rectify an underlying brain problem.

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Amy Winehouse has been divorced by her estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil on the grounds of adultery.

Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil had been married two years.

Fielder-Civil was granted a "quickie" divorce from the 25-year-old star at a hearing in central London.

The 27-year-old, who described himself as a music video producer, stated in divorce papers before the court he found it "intolerable" to live with Winehouse.

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The humble grapefruit could prove to be a mighty – if bitter tasting – weapon in the fight against diabetes, scientists say.

A study found naringenin, a flavonoid found in citrus fruit, makes the liver burn fat instead of storing it after a meal.

Researchers believe the chemical would also help obesity sufferers and even fight diabetes, because it also helped balance insulin and glucose levels.

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A man in the United States popped out to his local petrol station to buy a pack of cigarettes – only to find his card charged $23,148,855,308,184,500.

That is $23 quadrillion (£14 quadrillion) – many times the US national debt.

"I thought somebody had bought Europe with my credit card," said Josh Muszynski, from New Hampshire.

He says his appeals to his bank first met with little understanding, though it eventually corrected the error.

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A Spanish woman who gave birth to twins when she was 67 has died, two-and-a-half years after becoming the world’s oldest mother.

Carmen Bousada, who lied about her age to receive donor eggs and sperm in the US, died at 69 after suffering from cancer – leaving her two young boys parentless.

Her brother told Spanish newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya her illness was "very hard, she was in a really bad state recently".

It was not clear who would now raise Ms Bousada’s sons, Cristian and Pau.

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Arthritis is the term used for nearly 200 painful conditions of the joints and bones. It affects about 7million people in the UK and all types have similar symptoms of swelling, inflammation of joints, stiffness and restriction of movement.

Many of us take our joints for granted until they start playing up, by which time significant damage may already have occurred. But the sooner you start looking after your joints, the better.

The good news is that many cases of arthritis can be relieved, postponed or even prevented by good joint care.

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Cooking carrots whole before chopping them up boosts their anti-cancer properties by 25 per cent, researchers say.

Leaving the vegetable intact prevents valuable nutrients from being easily washed away into the water, claim scientists.

As an added bonus, boiling unchopped carrots also makes them taste better, they said.

They can then be chopped up once cooked without loss of nutrients.

Carrots have long been prized for their health benefits, especially their vitamin and fibre content. They contain huge amounts of carotenoids which are converted into vitamin A in the body.

They are also an excellent source of the anti-cancer compound falcarinol.

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Trying to copy celebrities who are back in skinny jeans weeks after giving birth is unrealistic and dangerous, new mothers are being warned.

It can take women six months or even a year, not weeks, to shed the weight they put on in pregnancy, say experts.

Crash diets and intensive exercise programmes are not only likely to fail but can harm mother and baby.

The advice comes from Germany’s Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care.

According to the Institute, women are under too much pressure to lose weight quickly after giving birth, when many need some of that extra weight to provide nourishment for the baby.

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A controversial transgender man has given birth to his second child, a year after his daughter was born.

Thomas Beatie delivered a healthy baby boy early on Tuesday morning, according to ABC News.

His wife Nancy will breast-feed their son, as she did with their daughter Susan Juliette, who was born in Oregon in June last year.

During his first pregnancy, Mr Beatie released a photograph of himself showing his pregnant belly and bearded face.

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