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Five high protein foods that have no meat

After Channing Tatum attempted and failed to stick to a meat-free, vegan diet (despite hating vegetables), we take a look at the top five ways to get your daily dose of protein, without the meat.
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It’s no secret that many of Hollywood’s A-listers have been crediting their good health and physique to a vegan diet.

Posing on the cover of the July/August issue of Women’s Health, Channing Tatum’s wife Jenna shows off her incredibly toned form, crediting the enviable look to powerful 45-minute workouts and an all-vegan diet.

The mother-of-one stunned on the cover of the women’s glossy.

While she’s stuck to this eating plan for a long while, the 35-year-old admits that her handsome husband had trouble committing to a life without protein from meat.

“He really did try to be vegan for six months. The guy doesn’t like vegetables, which makes it tough.”

“It was hard in the beginning because you want someone to be on the same page, but you’ve got to let people be themselves.”

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Vegans and vegetarians will know that trying to meet your daily protein requirements can be indeed be a challenge for non-meat eaters considering that the average woman should consume about 46 grams of protein per day, while men need about 56.

While you can easily get your everyday serve of protein with a chicken salad or fillet of steak, hitting the mark on a veg diet isn’t always this easy, and often requires a touch more thought and creativity.

Whether you’re a vegetarian, vegan or simply looking to cut back on meat, you’ll be happy to know that there are plenty of protein rich foods out there, that will not only help you reach your daily quota but actually contribute to the deliciousness of your meals.

So without further ado, here are our top 5 vegetarian high-protein foods.

Try this ginger soy bean soup from our friends over at Food To Love!

Soybeans

100 grams of soybeans contain a whopping 36 grams of protein whereas a half cup of chicken has approximately 27 grams. These little gems are also a source of eight essential amino acids, making them the only complete non-animal protein, and what’s more, they’re abundant in fiber, calcium and B vitamins.

Pistachios

We all know almonds are packed with protein, but another surprise nut comes in at a close second. With 20 grams of protein per 100 grams, pistachios are a rich and snackable way to easily reach your recommended daily intake. Pop a tub next to your desk, and much away while you work!

Substitute pork or beef with lentils using this lentil sausage rolls with tomato sumac salad recipe.

Lentils

With 26 grams of protein per 100 grams, lentils come in at a close second from soybeans. On top of their commendable protein levels, they’re also rich in potassium, iron and vitamin. From curry and soup, to burgers and pastas, there’s really no limit as to what you can whip up using these bad boys.

Black beans

Along with being a rich source of folate, fiber and potassium, black beans also contain around 21 grams of protein to every hundred. The shiny black bullets not only taste delicious, but are also help lower cholesterol in the blood, making them a healthy choice for a happy heart.

Yoghurt

Non-fat Greek yogurt contains around 10 grams per 100 grams, making it an excellent choice for a healthy breakfast or dessert. We already know yoghurt as an excellent source of calcium, but the live cultures present also help to maintain a level of good bacteria in the gut.

Impress guests with jerk salmon with yoghurt potatoes.

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Ageless A-listers! Age-defying stars

These leading ladies prove age is but a number.
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At 58, Melanie Griffith is an outspoken user of Instagram.

And in her latest post, the actress has proudly shared a photo of her face without filters.

These days, photo filters and even apps to smooth out wrinkles and blemishes are the norm, so it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not!

But Melanie is determined to keep it real.

The Working Girl star has been copping criticism from internet trolls, and decided to let ’em have it.

“Here ya go. Unfiltered. I’m 58,” she posted along with her picture. “Go ahead, say some more mean things. Merry Christmas!”

Personally, we think she looks pretty darn good, filtered or not!

Click through the gallery to see more ageless beauties like Melanie.

Showing that she’s barely aged a day since this stunning 1995 photo, Selma Hayek stepped out in Los Angeles for the premiere of Septembers Of Shiraz.

Speaking to InStyle, the 49-year-old – who donned a fitted tiger-striped dress that showed off her enviable figure – admitted her insecurities as she approaches her next birthday. “Well I am entering my fifties so your body confidence isn’t that good. I think it depends on the day, for everybody,” she says. “There’s some days you say, ‘This is it,’ and you love it. Then there are days when you go, ‘This cannot be it! Is this really it?'”

She’s the glamorous face of Seven’s Sunday Night but presenter Melissa Doyle, 46, proved she looks just as good 
off camera, when she hit the streets makeup-free and
 wearing her workout gear.

“It’s much easier to squeeze 
30 minutes of exercise into a busy day than knowing an hour 
is out of the question so skipping it altogether,” says Mel.

The mum-of-two clearly looks fabulous! The reporter is in the best shape of her life after leaving Sunrise in 2013.

Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt has held heartthrob status in Hollywood for decades, and the star shows he only gets better with age. Pictured in 1996 on the left and at the 2016 Golden Globes on the right, the father-of-six proves he can still melt hearts at 52. Wonder what his secret is…

Mama Mimi! You’d be forgiven for thinking Mariah Carey’s latest snap in a plunging gold one-piece was a throwback. The 45-year-old, who shared the racy pic during her annual holiday to Aspen, looks just as good as she did back in 1997 (L).

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Melanie Griffith shared this non-filtered selfie this week, declaring, “Unfiltered… I’m 58. Go ahead, say something mean.”

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But we reckon the actress is doing alright, with or without filters! She hasn’t changed much from her early days on the red carpet. Let the haters hate, Melanie.

You’d be forgiven if you thought Liz Hurley shared a flashback photo! The 50-year-old took to social media to post this “mellow in yellow” bikini snap from a recent getaway. It’s safe to say the mother-of-one looks phenomenal.

She might be 50, but Liz looks just as good now as she did during her modelling heyday (pictured in her iconic Versace pin dress with Hugh Grant in 1994 on the left). The British bombshell, who recently stunned with the selfie on the right, credits her great physique to watching what she eats. “If my jeans feel tight I try to cut back a bit,” she told Healthy Living magazine.

A vision in red! TV royalty Kerri-Anne Kennerley stunned at the Fight Cancer Foundation’s 2015 Red Ball in Melbourne on Saturday night in a high-neck fishtail frock.

The 61-year-old (pictured in 1984 on the left) looks just as good now as she did during her early days in showbiz. The Celebrity Apprentice star keeps a trim figure thanks to an active lifestyle, including regular sessions of golf.

At 61, model and actress Christie Brinkley could be mistaken for 21!

The star, pictured in 2004 on the left and 2015 on the right, swears by a vegan diet but allows the odd indulgence. “I don’t eat fish apart from the occasional oyster.”

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Natalie Imbruglia is definitely worth it! The 40-year-old Aussie singer shared this beautiful make-up free selfie, showing of her new darker locks. “A change will do you good! #brunette”. Channeling her 1998 self, the former Neighbours star who is glowing, has one trade secret that we can all pick up: “Lots of sleep, lots of water, and running is really good for your complexion. And with makeup, Less is more.”

There’s a reason Elle Macpherson has been dubbed The Body and honestly, it’s almost criminal how insane the 51-year-old looks these days! The supermodel recently shared this snap of herself kicking back in a black two-piece bikini and she looks just as fit and fab now as she did in 1995 (R).

Then and now! While the Aussie-born beauty ruled the catwalk in the Nineties, the mother-of-two says she’s more confident in her fifties than ever before. “If I look at pictures of when I was young, my smile wasn’t even genuine, because it was so wracked with self-consciousness. If someone asked me when I hit my peak, standing from 50, I would say now or my forties. Maybe when I’m 60, I’ll say my fifties. It certainly wasn’t my twenties,” she told Red Magazine last years.

Like a fine wine, the fearless Sandra Bullock just gets better with age. In 1993 (L) Sandy was glowing with beauty and it’s no different in 2015 (R).

The 50-year-old says she’s a fan of eating well and regular work outs. Speaking to InStyle magazine the actress explained: “I do a lot of Pilates, kickboxing, and weight training in LA, and when I’m in Austin I run or ride a bike.”

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We should be so lucky to look as Kylie Minogue at 47-years-old! While the bouncy curls and freckles she rocked so well in the Eighties (L) may be a thing of the past, Miss Minogue’s style evolution has been seriously inspiring.

So what’s the Slow hitmaker’s secret? In a Reddit Q&A last year the diminutive diva revealed: “My guilty confession is that there isn’t [a routine]! In my mind there is absolutely one…hah!! I think I stay in shape with an active (read, exhausting!) lifestyle. My fitness is really sporadic. I have to thank my mum for good genes as I am tiny, just like her.”

“It’s different every day. I’ve been doing barre method because I have a hip flexor injury. I can’t do yoga. I do 20-30 minutes of cardio and then an hour with barre method,” 46-year-old Jennifer Aniston, pictured in 1999 on the left and 2015 on the right, mused to Elle of her work-out routine. Well, it’s certainly working for the radiant actress.

Jennifer Lopez: ultimate face/smoulder/sass goals. The 45-year-old, pictured in 2000 on the left and 2015 right, continues to flourish in talent, intelligence and beauty.

JLo still gives good dress! Who could forget the singer’s iconic 2000 Grammy frock by Versace (L) and earlier this year she was just as smouldering at the 2015 Billboard Music Award in a figure-hugging Charbel Zoe gown.

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I felt like a criminal for having an abortion

NSW are finally talking about Decriminalising abortion. The Weekly Online investigate how this will impact the 1 in 4 women that chose to terminate their pregnancies.
I felt like a criminal for having an abortion

Karen Hall* was wracked with emotion when she decided to terminate her pregnancy at nine weeks. It wasn’t a decision that she took lightly, but having fallen pregnant by accident, just two months after giving birth to her second IVF baby it seemed like the best decision for her family.

“Having the baby just wasn’t an option for me. It was a horrible decision to have to make and one I never want to be faced with again. But I know that mentally I would not have been able to cope with a third child,” says Hall.

Arranging the termination was fairly straightforward. Her GP referred her to a clinic and although they exhausted her with questions about her mental health there was never a doubt that the abortion would be granted.

But like thousands of other women who have had abortions in New South Wales, Hall was actually acting unlawfully.

Because despite the fact that abortion clinics are commonplace, the NSW Crimes Act states that “a woman with child” can be jailed for up to 10 years if she “unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means” to terminate her pregnancy.

A loophole in the law introduced in the seventies stipulates that abortion is not unlawful if a doctor believes it is necessary to save a woman’s life, or protect her physical or mental health. However this could be open to interpretation meaning that both doctors and patients who proceed with abortion risk criminal prosecution.

Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi wants to change this archaic law. This week, she will introduce a bill in the NSW parliament to decriminalise abortion.

“This bill would make it clear that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies.

“Decriminalising abortion is essential. Women and all people choosing to have an abortion as well as their doctors are not criminals and we need to remove the stigma and shame associated with it,” she told The Sydney Morning Herald.

The stigma and shame that Faruqi talks about can add to the huge distress that women seeking terminations experience. This is something that Karen Hall felt all too keenly.

“The fact that the whole process is illegal certainly added to the guilt and shame that I felt. I felt like a criminal even though what I was actually doing was for my family’s benefit.

“I already felt like I was doing something so terribly wrong, so knowing it was a criminal act only exacerbated this feeling,” she says.

As well as making it easier for women to access abortion services, decriminalising would make the taboo subject easier for women to talk about.

For Hall, Decriminalising abortion would be a step towards supporting women that need to choose termination over pregnancy.

“There are so many reasons that women decide not to go ahead with a pregnancy. But having support for that decision and not being made to feel like a criminal is one way to stop the stigma,” says Hall.

“I think bringing an unwanted baby into a family is far more criminal than a termination.”

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Woman terrified after spotting ‘ghost’s face’ in photo

There’s no explanation for this one...

A family is spooked after spotting a ghostly face in a photo taken on an iPhone.

Ciara O’Callaghan from Ireland had her family over and her niece took an accidental photo of the ceiling, but she looked back at it, she noticed something extremely creepy.

“My brother Glenn came down from Sligo and I took a picture of him with my niece Carly and nephew Sean in the kitchen,” she told the Irish Mirror.

“My niece took the phone from me to pass it over but it took a photo of the ceiling by accident.

“I didn’t take any notice until I looked though the photos again.”

What’s even creepier is that when she uploaded it to Facebook, it gave her the option of actually tagging the face.

Ciara is a self-confessed sceptic so she played around the contrast on Photoshop to identify it.

“To try to find a logical explanation my brother-in-law got the photo and took it into Photoshop, where he changed the colours, darkened it and increased the contrast,” she explained.

Ciara continued: “Rather than show the logical explanation we were hoping for, it seemed to simply further the level of mystery.

“We don’t have anybody who has a face remotely similar to this one in terms of dimensions or physical appearance.

“There is nobody else that looks like that and it’s just extremely strange.”

Very weird!

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Michael Jackson’s family respond to fresh claims he kept pics of naked children

Paris, Taj, and Jermaine Jackson have retaliated to claims her dad Michael kept photos of naked children at his Neverland home.

The seventh anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death is on Saturday, but it’s unlikely to be a time of happy memories of the King of Pop.

This week, footage of a police warrant revealed bizarre items in Michael Jackson’s Neverland home, including stuffed animals, naked photos of boys in their teens or even younger, and a signed photo of Macaulay Culkin.

There were other items found that include drugs to treat sex addiction, videos of men, women, boys and girls in various pornographic guises, life-size Superman and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider mannequins, children’s dolls and arcade games.

The footage was from a raid in November 2003 which showed a secret closet at the back of Michael’s bedroom that was closed with three different locks.

Michael’s Neverland home

The video, leaked by online tabloid Radar was used at his trial for child-molestation charges in 2005.

The pop singer went to trial for multiple child sexual assault charges but he declared not guilty. He was found dead in his home in 2009 at the age of 50.

His daughter Paris, 18, 42-year-old nephew Taj, and brother Jermaine, have slammed the claims as false.

Paris wrote a series of tweets:

Paris Jackson

Her cousin Taj also weighed in on the matter:

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Michael’s brother Jermaine tweeted for people to let Michael rest.

Jermaine Jackson

The Jackson estate released a statement, saying: “Those who continue to shamelessly exploit Michael via sleazy internet “click bait” ignore that he was acquitted by a jury in 2005 on every one of the 14 salacious charges brought against him in a failed witch hunt.”

“Michael remains just as innocent of these smears in death as he was in life even though he isn’t here to defend himself. Enough is enough.”

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Coconut oil: Miracle elixir or trendy fad?

It’s become a staple of the alternative wellness movement, but not everyone is convinced that the oil of this tropical nut lives up to the hype.

It’s become a staple of the alternative wellness movement, but not everyone is convinced that the oil of this tropical nut lives up to the hype.

If you believe the hype, coconut oil is a miracle food. Touted as the latest healthy oil, it’s being used liberally in everything from smoothies, salads and raw desserts to cooking, skincare and hair treatments.

Supermodel Miranda Kerr is said to consume it daily, Pete Evans extols its benefits in his Paleo cooking and it’s a staple of Sarah Wilson’s sugar-free movement, too. There are books devoted to its alleged healing properties.

Proving just how fashionable it has become, Nielsen data shows that there has been a 165 per cent increase in the purchase of coconut oil products by Australian households in 2014/15 compared to two years previously. Now, more than one in 10 homes has it in their cupboards – more so in the under-35s.

When a pricey jar of oil moves from niche speciality and health food stores to the shelves of Coles and Woolworths, you know it’s become mainstream. Retailers also like it because it has a good shelf-life, which is due to its high saturated fat content. Yet is coconut oil really all it’s cracked up to be?

Coconut oil fits in with the low-carb, high-fat movement that has had some popularity – think Atkins, Paleo, ketogenic, Banting and Scarsdale. You may come across some recipes promoted as part of these diets calling for large amounts of coconut oil – such as an alternative recipe for lamingtons containing a whopping half a litre of it. That, surely, would be overdoing it, right?

In the current issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly Health magazine we go in search for answers and find health experts, chefs and coconut oil lobbyists all squabbling over the so-called tropical tonic and our findings might surprise you.

To find out more about this story, as well as other health and wellness features, pick up a copy of The Australian Women’s Weekly Health magazine on stands now with Rachael Finch on the cover.

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Why am I a compulsive shopper?

We’ve all been there. You’re travelling along fine with your [insert item] when BAM! You need to buy a new one. But why are we suddenly hit with the urge to buy? Kerri Sackville investigates.
Why do we always need to buy something new

It struck again yesterday. It happens every few months. I feel good, I feel normal, life is going along just fine, and then suddenly… BAM. It hits me, out of the blue.

The urge to buy a new handbag.

It is a need. It is a force. It cannot be ignored, or even delayed. When it strikes, it must be obeyed. I need to see the compulsion through.

I have quite a few handbags, and I’ve discarded many more. I am a serial monobaggist. I will fall in love with a bag for a while, and use it every day, and think it is my perfect match. It will be the right colour and weight and size, it will have the ideal number of pockets, and it will go with all my outfits and make me feel happy and complete and whole.

Until suddenly, one day, it inexplicably doesn’t, and I need to replace it this instant.

Strangely, I’m not like this with other accessories or clothes – I will buy what I need, and often wear things till they fall apart. But bags are different. Bags are my thing.

Sometimes, I simply fall in love with a new bag, and realise it is far superior to the one I’m using now. At other times, I go to bed radiantly happy with my bag, and wake up realising it’s wrong and awful in every single way.

The bag itself hasn’t changed. It’s been loyal and served me well. It is me. I can’t commit. I have to let it go to make room for the new.

I know I’m not the only one with this issue. I have friends who buy shoes, or makeup, or even stationery supplies, every few weeks. One of my friends is obsessed with bowls, and constantly adds to her collection.

Another has at least thirty pairs of black boots, and yet still regularly scouts for better pairs.

So what is it about, this fixation with the new? Is it a harmless way to bring some pleasure into our lives, or a mild form of addiction that could get out of control?

Well, both, really. As humans we are genetically programmed to seek novelty. The mid region of our brain responds to novel stimuli by producing dopamine, the ‘feel-good’ chemical. Being exposed to new things or experiences – going overseas, for example, or browsing through bags in a store – gives us a high.

And there’s nothing wrong with this, if it is kept under control. But if we continue to seek new things or experiences, we become desensitised to the high, and our brains demand more and more dopamine to feel good.

And this can lead to compulsive shopping or drug taking or gambling or sex addiction, just to recapture the rush of that dopamine fix.

Most of us, however, are pretty safe. I know that I can enjoy my bag high every few months without ever losing control and grabbing every tote or clutch in sight.

And besides, my latest handbag is absolutely spectacular. It is the right colour, weight and size, and has the ideal number of pockets. Maybe I finally have found my perfect match after all.

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Little boy cries when meeting the queen

But this time, they weren't tears of joy!

It’s not an unusual thing for someone to become overwhelmed with emotion at seeing the queen that they begin to cry, but for this one little boy, it wasn’t exactly tears of joy.

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The Queen visited Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool yesterday for the official opening and was met by hundreds of well-wishers.

Then she came across sweet Lewis, a young boy who became burst into tears when greeted by the Queen.

Lewis – who suffers from Apert Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes premature development of the skull – was all dressed up in a suit and tie, but the Queen’s smile to appease the youngster.

The Queen wore a pale pink coat and dress by Stuart Palvin, and outfit we’ve seen before at the Royal Ascot a few years ago.

Her Majesty was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh at the hospital.

VIDEO: The Queen scolds Prince William

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Prince William jokes about Duchess Catherine’s cooking

It was date night for Wills and Kate, and the birthday boy was in full effect as teased his wife!

With Prince George and Princess Charlotte at home, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stepped out for a glamorous night, as the guests of honour for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices charity gala.

The swanky affair, A Taste of Norfolk, helped to raise funds for a new hospice, The Nook.

Looking simply flawless, 34-year-old Catherine donned a glittering Jenny Packman gown.

Instead of her signature blowout, that she had back in 2011, she wore her long brunette hair in an elegant low bun.

Royal watchers quickly recognised it as the same dress she donned back in 2011 for her very first royal engagement after she tied the knot with Prince William.

The royal couple relished their summer date, with the pair overheard telling five Michelin-star chefs their own cooking experience.

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“William has to put up with my cooking most of the time,” Kate told the chefs.

Not missing a beat, William quipped, “It’s the reason I’m so skinny.”

Unlike his usual meals at home, Wills was in for treat at the gala.

Catherine wowed guests

Wednesday’s menu featured a delicious locally sourced feast prepared by some of the world’s top chefs.

The feast included squid ink cracker with Morston smoked salmon made by chef Galton Blackiston (of Morston Hall on the Norfolk coast), scallop ceviche by chef Sat Bains (Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham), wild sea bass by Claude Bosi (Hibiscus in London), loin of Houghton venison with summer beetroot purée by Tom Kerridge (The Hand and Flowers in Harlow) and Norfolk raspberries, strawberries, cider and blueberry coulis by Nobu’s Mark Edwards.

The exclusive event was hosted by David Cholmondeley, the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley and his wife Sarah, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, at their country home Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

As the royal patron of EACH, the charity means a lot to Catherine.

The mum-of-two has been royal patron of EACH since January 2012, and her very first public speech in March that same year was for the opening of the Treehouse, a children’s hospice opened by the charity.

Watch Wills and Kate joke around in the video below!

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