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October 17, 2011

Don’t swallow your emotions

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I drive quite a distance to work and because of this I have to fill up my car’s small petrol tank a couple of times a week.

I try to plan my days so that I’m filling up when petrol’s cheapest, but my reason for filling up is always the same: if I don’t my car will stop working.

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I don’t go get petrol when I’m bored or feeling a bit down and having friends and family in my car doesn’t make me more likely to want to fill up.

But when it comes to eating, fuelling our bodies, this isn’t the case.

We eat when we are hungry, but food also serves many other functions in our lives. It’s used for celebrations, it’s a focal point for socialising and it also holds a key place in many religious faiths.

We all know how certain tastes and smells can take us instantly back to childhood, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise to learn that our emotions and eating can be linked.

Eating can be associated with both positive and negative emotions. Sometimes we eat when we’re sad, angry or stressed. Sometimes we eat when we’re just plain bored.

While links between our mood and eating are something we all experience, emotional eating can become a problem if it is excessive and begins to affect our health.

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If you feel emotional eating may be having a negative effect on your health, the first step is to identify when it is happening.

Then have a chat with your doctor or dietician, who can help you with strategies and resources for helping to identify emotional eating and proactive ways of managing the problem.

This information is provided by the Sanitarium Nutrition Service.

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Secrets to a Sunny Mind

Try these six easy ideas to age-proof your memory, stop brain drain and think happier - and smarter.

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Try these six easy ideas to age-proof your memory, stop brain drain and think happier – and smarter.

Express yourself: When you’re feeling blue, do-it-yourself art therapy can help you get to the core of whatever is causing your anger, grief, or other difficult emotion, and move forward. A Thomas Jefferson University study found that women who sketched experienced much less depression, anxiety and overall stress.

Reach for rhodiola: Most research into this brain-rejuvenating herb was done by the Russian military and kept secret until 1994, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is one of the best tonics for mind problems, especially for cognitive function and mood. Studies show it improves learning and memory, enhances alertness and concentration, and lessens menopause-related ‘brain fog’.

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Jog your memory – literally: A Columbia University study shows that exercising triggers the regrowth of neurotrophins (compounds that enable brain nerve cells to communicate with each other effectively) in parts of the brain affected by age-related memory loss. The findings were most noticeable in people undertaking aerobic activities, e.g. bicycling or walking, because they stimulate oxygen flow to the brain.

Feed your brain: Studies show that eating a Mediterranean-style diet — with lots of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil and seafood — reduces your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Add extra nutritional insurance with fish oil capsules, to provide omega-3 fatty acids, a brain-boosting B-group vitamin formula, and the trace mineral chromium picolinate — a study from Cincinnati University shows that taking 1,000 mcg daily sharpens memory, probably because it improves insulin sensitivity and allows glucose, the brain’s main fuel, to be used better.

Add a cocoa kick: According to a study from the British Psychological Society, chocolate improves mental focus and problem-solving ability. Adults were given either a chocolate drink containing cocoa flavanols or a placebo drink before working on challenging tasks. The participants who had the flavanol-enhanced drink performed dramatically better.

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Be a glass half-full person: Studies show that optimists have significantly better mental health than pessimists. To get happy, cultivate stronger relationships you’re your friends and family — studies also link social isolation with higher rates of dementia — and practise ‘thought-switching’, where you turn off negative thinking. A Wake Forest University study found that people who make a deliberate effort to be grateful really do become happier and calmer.

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October 17, 2011

Six spring gardening essentials

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Spring is magic. Blossoms, scents, vases crowded with roses, grass green, skies blue … the real challenge of spring is how to most enjoy it. So here are the six top spring essentials.

1. A new gardening hat

This isn’t a ‘go to the races hat’ or a celebrity fashion statement, but a good garden hat shouldn’t be daggy either. Getting out into the garden — especially now — should be a joy and celebration. It NEEDS to be a new hat, one you love and will feel happy to put on. I love straw garden hats, especially ones that can be trimmed with fresh flowers or greenery, but go with your own fancy — just make sure it is really shady, fits well enough that it doesn’t blow off in every gust of wind but is still completely comfortable so you don’t mind wearing it for hours at a time.

2. Gardening gloves

I have yet to discover how to keep my fingernails clean and garden too — even gardening gloves don’t keep you pristine. But they do make a difference — your nails may still need scrubbing but there won’t be ingrained dirt or stains from plant sap and your hands stay softer too (you also don’t have to worry about spiders and other beasties that might bite your hands). I have two pairs so that when one pair gets wet in damp soil I can change into the other. Be sure to wash them often, so they don’t get stiff with dirt and become uncomfortable.

3. A rose

Doesn’t matter how many you already have — or even if you don’t have a garden. Buy a patio rose for a hanging basket, or a great glorious climber for the back fence. This is the perfect time of the year to wander down to the garden centre or, even better, to a rose specialist or open garden filled with blooms. If the garden centre doesn’t have the one you want, there are many rose nurseries online — a few minutes hunting and you should have the rose of your dreams.

4. Six pots of chives

Every cook needs lots of chives, to sprinkle into mashed potato or season baked pumpkin, to scatter over salads and into soups, to use to tie up bundles of elegant beans or asparagus spears or make cauliflower in vinaigrette dressing look gorgeous with shreds of green. I nip out to my chive pots every day — and this is the perfect time to get a giant pot of chives flourishing.

5. Vegies

Start a vegie garden, just a little one, with a punnet of bright-stemmed Swiss chard, some tomatoes well staked, maybe a few plants of basil, with lots of mulch to keep the soil moist and the weeds down. If you already have a vegie garden, this is the time to be more adventurous: plant the seeds of purple-stemmed asparagus, add some artichokes or a perennial veg like yacon with its big crunchy tubers, great thinly sliced in salads or fried in tempura batter. Spring is the time for new beginnings, and a veg garden is a lovely beginning to make.

6. Take time out

Enjoy it all — the flowers, the scents, the days of blue and gold and radiance. Head to your nearest park, hunt out open gardens, or just sit in your own garden with a long glass of something cool, a book, the kids or the dog … and your new hat. It is spring and every single spring of our lives should be enjoyed in full.

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October 16, 2011

Liz Hurley: Why I love Shane

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In her first interview since announcing her engagement to Shane Warne, Liz Hurley has revealed exactly what she loves about the Aussie cricket legend. And, quite simply put, he makes her happy.

“We have a lot of fun together, we laugh a lot and that’s very important to me,” she said in an interview with the UK’s Daily Mail.

“I couldn’t put up with ‘serious’ for too long. I don’t care what anyone says about me smartening him up — we’ve both been around too long to care, and that stuff really isn’t important.

“My family and my new family with Shane and his kids are what’s important. His children are really beautiful, sweet and affectionate. They get on brilliantly with Damian, and as an only child, it’s great for him to have them around when they come to stay. I love having a lot of people in the house — the more the merrier.”

But her happiness isn’t the only thing that attracts her to Shane. The 46-year-old UK actress says she finds his Australian qualities very appealing and says she has always had a fondness of Australia.

“There is enough Englishness [in Australia] that we feel at home, but there are enough differences to make it exciting,” she said.

“They make tea and they eat sausage rolls, play cricket and rugby. I love Aussie accents, too. And I do think they have more of an openness of spirit. Shane has all those qualities.”

The newly engaged couple, who announced their engagement over Twitter, are not in a rush to tie the knot.

“We aren’t making any immediate plans to get married – we’re going to enjoy being engaged for a while,” she said.

“We both want to spend more time with each other’s families, and Damian and I are looking forward to visiting Australia together in the near future.”

Liz also says Shane is a “very good dad” and says the pair is committed to raising both his three children and her son Damian as one big family.

With both Shane and Liz recently divorced the Gossip Girl actress says she tries to keep thisng calm between both her exes and Shane’s ex-wife Simone.

“I find it much harder to be at war. It’s just easier when we all get on, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t,” she said.

“Hugh, Arun, my sister and I went on holiday together many times, and Shane plays golf with Hugh regularly.”

In the interview Liz also addressed Shane’s notably new look.

“I think he looks best in sports gear, and in my opinion he looks exactly the same as he always has – he’s just lost a hell of a lot of weight, about two stone,” she said.

She also said he has borrowed her moistruiser in the past, but now he has his own.

“I don’t want him putting his great big fat fingers in mine. He has a really big right hand from chucking a cricket ball thousands of times,” she said.

“I’ve never met a man who didn’t like face cream or who wasn’t secretive about his diet. They are obsessed with their bodies. They spend hours in front of the mirror, pinching bits, going on mad runs, all of them.”

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Sue Pieters-Hawke on her mum and “the day Blanche slapped me”

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Bob and Hazel Hawke’s daughter Sue tells why her mum was never a “doormat”, and reveals what really happened between her and her stepmother during that ugly public incident last year.

When a disagreement aired between Sue Pieters-Hawke and her stepmother, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s second wife Blanche d’Alpuget, last year, no-one imagined it would end in violence at Brisbane Airport. With the incident reported to the Federal Police, it hit national headlines. However, neither woman has ever spoken about the spat, which took place in the exclusive Chairman’s Lounge in June – until now.

“I approached her to say a friendly hello, but she slapped me hard three or four times, and yes, I was shaken,” admits Sue. “I never touched her. There was no catfight. There were no lasting injuries.”The two women have not spoken since the ugly incident, although Sue – who next week releases her own biography of her mother, Hazel – has spoken to her famous father Bob. She hopes the rift will be healed, despite some “difficult” revelations about Bob in Hazel: My Mother’s Story. “If Dad chooses to read it, I hope he might think it tough but fair,” Sue says.

“If you read the book, you will see the positives about Dad, and I don’t apologise for also portraying things that were difficult, because they were part of Mum’s journey. You can’t explain Mum if you don’t have them there as well as the great things.” Blanche’s fury was sparked by an article Sue wrote in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper in July, 2010, to correct a perception that her much-loved mum was a “dowdy doormat” who only stayed with unfaithful Bob in order to become First Lady. With Hazel, 82, now suffering advanced dementia, Sue felt compelled to publicly defend her mother and put right some misconceptions arising from publicity for Blanche’s revised biography, Hawke: The Prime Minister, and for a telemovie about him, which premiered at the same time on Channel Ten.

“I hadn’t read Blanche’s book and I was in no way criticising the book, then or now, but clearly myself and many other people thought that there was a very incorrect portrayal of Mum in the media at that time,” says Sue. “Dad let me know that Blanche was very upset and saw it as an attack on her integrity as a writer. I reiterated that had not been, and is not, my intention. She’s a very good writer. We simply had a difference of opinion about some things. I was sorry if she took it that way and felt personally hurt. She didn’t want to speak to me, but I talked to Dad.” Sue thought she would let the dust settle before attempting to make peace with Blanche, never imagining that their disagreement over “alternative views” of Hazel would result in violence.

Read more about Sue’s story and more on her mum’s life in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale October 17, 2011.

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October 16, 2011

Our shoot with Simone Callahan and Toby Roberts

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You may think Warnie’s ex-wife would be at war with Shane and Liz Hurley, but madly-in-love Simone is way too happy to be bitter.