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Eating more weekly vegetarian meals is one of the easiest ways to increase the plant foods in your diet. And according to one of the most comprehensive nutrition studies ever conducted, The China Study, enjoying more plant-based meals is one of the best things we can do for our health. The China Study Conducted through […]

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Bindi Irwin is the chosen one – heir apparent to father Steve’s wildlife juggernaut. With ambitions that reach as far as The Lodge, is the 11-year-old too young to be a brand, asks Bryce Corbett? In the lush hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, a mini-world inside a world is taking shape. It’s called Planet Bindi […]

Sacred or oppressive? As Europe debates the banning of the burqa, Erin O’Dwyer talks to four Muslim Australian women about why they choose – or choose not to – wear the Islamic veil. To some, Islamic veils are expressions of faith. To others, they are symbols of oppression. Either way, they continue to spark debate. […]

Oh so sexy at 63, Susan Sarandon is a woman without fakery. In her varied career, she’s never felt the need to hide who she really is, as she tells Chrissy Iley. The first thing you notice about Susan Sarandon is how comfortable she looks in her own body. She often talks about how proud […]

She’s had both good times and bad. Rebecca Gibney tells Bryce Corbett her six secret rules for a happy life. In the great backstage dressing room of the Australian TV industry, there are those who affect nice, those who are nice – and then there’s Rebecca Gibney. She is so consistently lovely and so effortlessly […]

Read our review of Nicky Pellegrino’s Recipe For Lifethen tell us what you think on the form below for a chance to win a copy of the AWW Cooking School cook book and have your critique printed in The Australian Women’s Weekly books pages. Mediterranean turquoise cover, splashed with a couple of ripe lemons and […]

This Party’s Got To Stopby Rupert Thomson, Granta, $29.99. This is British novelist Rupert Thomson’s first foray into non-fiction, an absorbing memoir that explores the impact of his father’s death on Rupert and his two younger brothers. They’re in their 20s, already motherless, and having come together for the funeral, the brothers stay on for […]

The Last American Manby Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury, $24.99. She inspired millions of women withEat Pray LoveandCommitted. How fascinating that Elizabeth Gilbert should have tackled men first, or rather manhood, through the story of a modern-day frontiersman called Eustace Conway, who could throw a knife with pinpoint accuracy at seven, and by 17 was living alone […]

Mayaby Alastair Campbell, Hutchinson, $32.95. Everything’s going right for Steve Watkins. He’s got a good job, lovely wife, even a touch of tinsel in his life because his best friend is the glamorous Maya, one of the world’s most famous film stars. No one quite understands what she sees in him, but Steve is always […]