Drink up – a hydration guide
Even in the cooler months it’s important to drink up for physical activity. While sweating buckets during a summer run places you at greater risk of dehydration, it’s also possible to lose significant body fluid during indoor, winter pursuits like lap swimming.
Simple relaxation exercise
Relaxation costs nothing and has no side effects, so there’s no excuse not to get cracking.
Lower kilojoule intake
Pump up the volume – how changes to the energy density of a meal can lower your kilojoule intake but still keep you satisfied.
Bindi, the Jungle Girl: Echindas
This month, Bindi shows off her favourite camel. Pick up a copy of the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly to read more about echidnas and see below for information on how to ask Bindi your most pressing wildlife questions. One of the most gorgeous, loveable creatures on the face of the earth would […]
Macular degeneration
Best-selling Australian author and National Treasure, Colleen McCullough, has Macular Degeneration (MD) – the major cause of blindness in Australia.
Interview with Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes’ new book, The Peacock Emporium (Hodder & Stoughton) has been selected as the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. **Q Congratulations on The Peacock Emporium, I really loved it! A** Oh, did you? It is a bit deeper and darker than my previous books and I was a […]
Exclusive extract: the peacock emporium
Selected as the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. 1963: Framlington Hall, Norfolk He looked perfect in black tie, of course. Unlike her father, whose stomach strained uncomfortably against his cummerbund like a wind-filled sail, Douglas simply looked taller and straighter, his shoulders square in the crisp dark cloth of […]
Seven ways to soothe eye strain
At the end of a particularly exhausting day in 1900, Dr William Bates, a New York ophthalmologist, sat and placed his palms over his eyes. After 10 minutes, he noted that his eyes were not as sore...
Exclusive extract: do you come here often?
Selected as the Great Read in the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. It was just after 9 a.m. Eight hours after Grace had arrived home last night, let herself in and discovered the stereo on, some opera or other blaring loudly, and Spencer crashed out on the sofa. Arms dangling, thighs splayed, his […]